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Call Number: SC0029B
Creator:
Robinson, Edgar Eugene, 1887-1977
Title: Edgar Eugene Robinson papers
Dates: 1880-1986
Physical Description:
66.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Gift of Edgar E. Robinson, 1966 and Mrs. Edgar E. Robinson, 1979, 1983, and 1991.
The materials are open for research use.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
[Identification of item], Edgar Eugene Robinson Papers (SC0029B). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Edgar E. Robinson was the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at Stanford University (1911-1952; emeritus, 1952-1977) and
chairman of the History Department (1935-1952). He also served as Director of Independent Studies and of the Institute of
American History. Especially well known for his work on American political parties, voting behavior, and presidential leadership,
Professor Robinson played an integral role in the establishment of the Western Civilization course at Stanford.
Correspondence, journals, newsclippings, drafts and manuscripts, lecture notes, syllabi, student term papers and administrative
documents relating to Dr. Robinson's tenure as chairman of the History Department, his publications, work with the Commonwealth
Club, and local defense activities during World War II.
Correspondents include E.D. Adams, Margery Bailey, Thomas A. Bailey, Edwin A. Cottrell, Ellwood P. Cubberley, Max Farrand,
Albert Leon Guerard, David Harris, David Starr Jordan, George H. Knoles, Walter Lippman, Ralph H. Lutz, Alice M. Rose, Lewis
M. Terman, Payson Jackson Treat, Frederick Jackson Turner, Ray Lyman Wilbur, John D. Works, and Yamato Ichihashi.
The collection also includes correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia of his first wife Katherine Young Robinson; and
correspondence of his second wife Lisette Robinson.
The University Archives also has seven reel-to-reel tapes of Professor Robinson's memoirs and the taped readings about Herbert
Hoover from his journal which are housed with the Archives' tape collection.
Adams, Ephraim Douglass, 1865-1930.
Bailey, Margery, 1891-1963
Bailey, Thomas Andrew, 1902-1983.
Cottrell, Edwin A.
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945.
Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959.
Harris, David,, 1900-
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Ichihashi, Yamato.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931
Knoles, George Harmon.
Lippman, Walter.
Lutz, Ralph Haswell, 1886-1968.
Robinson, Edgar Eugene, 1887-1977
Robinson, Katherine Young.
Robinson, Lisette.
Rose, Alice M.
Stanford University. Department of History. -- General subdivision--Faculty.;
Stanford University. Independent Studies Program.
Stanford University. Institute of American History
Terman, Frederick Emmons, 1900-1982
Treat, Payson J. (Payson Jackson), 1879-1972
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932.
Wilbur, Ray L., (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949
Works, John D. (John Downey), 1847-1928
History--Research.
Notes.
Photoprints.
Syllabi.