Guide to the Hayden V. White papers MS.323
Alix Norton, Christian Alvarado, Patrick King
University of California, Santa Cruz
2019
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Hayden V. White Papers
source:
Brose, Margaret
Creator:
White, Hayden V., 1928-2018
Identifier/Call Number: MS.323
Physical Description:
27.18 Linear Feet
(21 boxes)
Physical Description:
40.7 GB
(34,270 digital files)
Date (inclusive): 1950-2017
Language of Material: English, Italian, German,
French
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Preferred Citation
Hayden V. White Papers. MS 323. Special Collections and Archives, University Library,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Margaret Brose, 2019.
Biography
Hayden V. White (1928-2018) was a literary critic and historical theorist. During his
academic career, White made contributions to the study of narrative theory, historiography,
and hermeneutics. A central thread of White's research throughout his career was questioning
how historical events are constructed through writing and discourse. As a teacher and
researcher, White held the distinguished title of University Professor in the University of
California system, where he spent most of his career at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. He also taught at the University of Rochester, Wesleyan University, University of
California Los Angeles, University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University.
White was born July 12, 1928 in Martin, Tennessee. His family moved to Detroit in the early
1930s, during the Great Depression. Near the end of World War II, White enlisted in the Navy
and served as a pilot. He then attended Wayne State University (then Wayne University) on
the GI Bill, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1951 before pursuing
graduate studies in the same subject at the University of Michigan and earning an M.A. in
1952, with a focus in medieval history. He would complete his doctoral dissertation in 1955,
after spending two years in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship. His thesis, heavily influenced
by the sociological concepts and methodology of Max Weber, was on the institutional and
ideological causes of the papal schism of 1130.
White started his professional career at Wayne State University in 1955, and then moved to
the University of Rochester in 1958. In 1968, he began teaching at the University of
California, Los Angeles, where he remained for seven years. At Wesleyan University in
Connecticut, he was the Director of the Center for the Humanities from 1973 to 1976. In
1978, White started as a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was
instrumental in the development of the History of Consciousness program. He was named
Presidential Professor in 1985 and University Professor in 1990. After officially retiring
from the History of Consciousness department in 1996 (but remaining for advising and some
teaching duties thereafter), he taught Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley
from 1996-1997 and Comparative Literature at Stanford University from 1996 to 2008.
Throughout his career, White traveled extensively, and was a Visiting Professor in Italy,
Germany, France, Poland, China, and Japan.
In 1972, while a history professor at UCLA, White sued the Los Angeles Chief of Police
Edward Davis for spending public funds in covert intelligence gathering on college campuses
by LAPD police offers. White reported that police officers were registering undercover as
UCLA students, attending classes, joining student organizations, and subsequently making
reports to the police department about discussions happening in classes and organization
meetings. This case,
White v. Davis, went to the California Supreme Court in
1975, where the court ruled unanimously in White's favor.
White v. Davis set
a precedent which established that police cannot engage in surveillance of political
activity without reasonable suspicion of a crime.
White's major published works include
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in
Nineteenth-Century Europe
(1973);
Tropics of Discourse (1979);
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation,
which contains "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality," (1987);
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (1999);
The Fiction
of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957–2007
(2010); and
The Practical Past (2014). He was elected Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and received honorary doctorates
(Doctor of Humane Letters) from several institutions including the University of Michigan,
Wesleyan University, North Carolina State University, the University of Bucharest, Gdansk
University in Poland, and the Freie Universität of Berlin.
Hayden White passed away at the age of 89 on March 5, 2018 in Santa Cruz, California.
Additional reading:
White, Hayden, & Vanderscoff, C. (2013).
Hayden White: frontiers of
consciousness at UCSC.
Santa Cruz, Calif: University of California, Santa Cruz,
University Library.
Paul, Herman. (2008) "A Weberian medievalist: Hayden White in the 1950s,"
Rethinking
History
, 12:1, 75-102.
White, Hayden V. (1996) "Storytelling: Historical and Ideological", in
Centuries'
Ends, Narrative Means
, ed. Robert Newman. Stanford: Stanford University Press,
58-78.
Content Description
The Hayden V. White papers document White's professional, teaching, and research career
from the 1950s to 2017. A significant portion of the collection contains White's research
files, which include his notes and writings, correspondence, and collected files on various
topics, authors and research themes. A small amount of White's undergraduate and graduate
work is included in the research files. The correspondence series contains letters and other
materials that were not filed with research files, and mainly contains conference
invitations, publication and review requests, communications with colleagues at UC Santa
Cruz regarding the History of Consciousness department, other professional communications,
documentation on the
White v. Davis legal case, and some personal
correspondence. Writings and publications include both typed and handwritten notes,
manuscripts, and annotated drafts of many of his works, as well as offprints of selected
published works. Teaching files include course notes, lecture notes and planning documents,
and some lecture audio recordings. White was professionally active in conferences and was
invited to speak on many occasions, the preparation and products of which are present in
this collection. Digital files include research files, talks, and writings from the
mid-1990s to the 2010s.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in seven series:
- Series 1: Research Files
- Series 2: Correspondence
- Series 3: Writings and Publications
- Series 4: Talks, Speeches, and Conferences
- Series 5: Teaching Files
- Series 6: Awards, Degrees, and Photographs
- Series 7: Digital Files
Materials within each series are arranged chronologically unless otherwise
specified.
Processing Information
Paper materials processed by Christian Alvarado in the Center for Archival Research and
Training (CART) with assistance from Alix Norton, 2019. Nearly all titles in this collection
were derived from the original folder titles as received from the donor. Original folders
were used when they were deemed to be serviceable, in order to retain notes that White had
written on the folders.
Digital materials processed by Patrick King in the Center for Archival Research and
Training (CART), under the direction of Kate Dundon and Alix Norton, 2019. Digital files
were transferred from carrier disks and hard drives in 2019. Some files were not able to be
transferred from the carrier disks due to technical constraints. Duplicate files, personnel
records, and other out of scope files were not retained. Files were not reformatted, and
file names are original to the creator. Original disks were retained and are included in the
collection.
Related Materials
The oral history of Hayden White,
Frontiers of Consciousness at UCSC, was
conducted by Cameron Vanderscoff and published in 2013 by the Regional History Project, UCSC
Library. Available online at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/20b91099
Hayden White's published works may be found in the UCSC Library by searching "White,
Hayden" in the Author/creator field in UCSC Library Search.
The collection of early printed books that Hayden White and his wife and UCSC professor
Margaret Brose donated to the UCSC Library can be found by searching "Gift of Hayden White
and Margaret Brose" in UCSC Library Search.
Additional Collection Guides
For a complete inventory of the contents of Series 7: Digital Files, see the following
guide:
To access redacted versions of the email messages in this collection, see the ePADD
Discovery site:
Subjects and Indexing Terms
College teachers -- California -- Santa
Cruz
Europe -- Civilization -- 19th
century
Historiography -- Europe
Faculty papers
Brose, Margaret
White, Hayden V., 1928-2018
University of California, Santa
Cruz
Research Files
1950-2017
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by subject or last name of person.
Scope and Contents
This series includes White's research notes on a variety of different authors, topics,
and themes. These categorized files have been preserved from their original order.
Folders contain notes that center upon specific research topics such as "Freud,"
"Violence," or "Narration." The vast majority of these files are handwritten notes,
prose, and diagrams that pertain to a given topic, and also include annotated works, and
clippings from newspapers and magazines. Within this series, some pieces of
correspondence that relate to particular topics have been preserved in their original
location. Some of White's undergraduate work is included near the end of this series, as
well as unsorted research notes on a variety of topics.
Box 1, Folder 1
H. Adams
circa late 1980s
Box 1, Folder 6
Antohi-Rusen Project
2002
Box 1, Folder 9
Attali, Jacques - Noise
circa 1987
Box 1, Folder 25
Barthes - "Discourse of History"
1981
Box 1, Folder 26
Barthes - Notes
circa 2000
Box 1, Folder 36
Brose, Margaret
late 1980s
Box 1, Folder 38-39
Burke, Kenneth
1980s-1996
Box 1, Folder 51
Critical Theory - UC San Diego
1984
Box 1, Folder 55
Davidson - "Conceptual Scheme"
1973
Box 2, Folder 1-2
De Certeau
1988, 2004-2008
Box 2, Folder 20-21
DuBois, W.E.B.
1990s-2003
Box 2, Folder 26
Enigma - Notes for paper
1997
Box 2, Folder 35
Fantasm and Enigma
undated
Box 2, Folder 42
Formalism - Contextualism
1980s
Box 2, Folder 55
Freud - Civ. and Discontents
undated
Scope and Contents
Cowell lecture
Box 2, Folder 56
Freud - Ego, id
1970s-1990s
Box 2, Folder 57
Freud - Instincts and their Vicissitudes
undated
Box 2, Folder 58
Freud - Moses and Monotheism
1970s-1980s
Box 3, Folder 3-4
Frye, Northrop
1970s-1992
Box 3, Folder 18
Historical Imaginary
2000s
Box 3, Folder 19
Historical Perspective
1970s-2000s
Box 3, Folder 20
Historical System
1967-1968
Box 3, Folder 22
Historiography
early 1980s
Box 3, Folder 23-26
History in General
1962-circa 2008
Box 3, Folder 27
HistCon & Ideology
undated
Box 3, Folder 29-31
Holocaust notes
1996-2000
Box 3, Folder 32
Holocaust Conference - UCLA
circa 1995
Box 3, Folder 36-37
Interpretation (Trinity)
5 October 2005
Box 3, Folder 38
Italian Fascism
late 1970s-early 1980s
Box 4, Folder 9-11
Lacan
late 1980s-late 2000s
Box 4, Folder 12
Lacan and Althusser
undated
Box 4, Folder 21
Levi-Strauss
late 1960s-2000s
Box 4, Folder 22
Limits of Representation
circa mid-2000s
Box 4, Folder 32
Middle Voicedness (Diathesis)
2000s
Box 4, Folder 34
Memory & History
2009
Scope and Contents
Stanford, April 9, 2009
Box 4, Folder 35
Modernism / Postmodernism (PoMo)
1989-2000s
Box 4, Folder 36
Modernity: Futurity (Jameson, Bohrer)
2000s
Box 4, Folder 42
Myth, History, Allegory
undated
Box 4, Folder 43
Mythology, Ideology, Factology
undated
Box 5, Folder 1
Narrative and Memory
undated
Box 5, Folder 2
Narrative, Plot, Mythos
1980s-2010
Box 5, Folder 3
National Geographic - "Search for our Ancestors"
2000s
Box 5, Folder 8
Passion/Action/Story
1987
Box 5, Folder 11
Politics, History, Rhetoric - Ghent
undated
Box 5, Folder 15
The Practical Past
circa 2006
Box 5, Folder 26
Ranciere's Revisionism
2000s
Box 5, Folder 28
Regimes of History and of Memory
1998-2000
Box 5, Folder 29
Renaissance Book Trade
undated
Box 5, Folder 44-45
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
mid-1990s
Box 5, Folder 50
Sussex/Columbia
1987-2000s
Box 6, Folder 6
Bibliography of Tropes - Dan Gross
1993-1994
Box 6, Folder 22
Woolf - "Between the Acts"
mid 1990s
Box 6, Folder 25
Wuthering Heights
undated
Box 6, Folder 27
19th century European History
1970s-2008
Box 6, Folder 28-31
Undergraduate and graduate work
1950-1953
Box 6, Folder 32-41
Unidentified notes
1976-2013
Box 7, Folder 1-21
Unidentified notes
1976-2013
Correspondence
1953-2016
Scope and Contents
This series contains White's professional and personal correspondence. Represented are
a variety of organizations, colleagues, and personal acquaintances that contextualize
White's work and professional life. This series includes letters, faxes, and printed
emails from 1954-2008. Heavily represented in this series are invitations to participate
in conferences, requests for contributions to publications, the communications of
universities and research centers with which White was involved, and correspondence with
students and colleagues. Of particular interest in this series is documentation
pertaining to the legal case
White v. Davis, handwritten and typed
correspondence from renowned intellectual figures such as Jacques Derrida and J.G.A.
Pocock, and administrative communications regarding the History of Consciousness
Department at UC Santa Cruz.
Box 8, Folder 3
University of Rochester
1960-1961
Box 8, Folder 4
Correspondence
1960-1995
Scope and Contents
Social Science Research Council, Stanford, Duke, UCSC
Box 8, Folder 5
Correspondence - Dead
1961-1968
Scope and Contents
McGraw-Hill, UCSB, Norman O Brown, Tel-Aviv University, Commissione Americana per Gli
Scambi Culturali con l'Italia
Box 8, Folder 6
John Wiley & Sons
1963-1964
Box 8, Folder 7
Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
1964
Box 8, Folder 8
Correspondence
1964
Scope and Contents
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Harper and Row Publishing
Box 8, Folder 9
Correspondence
1966-1988
Scope and Contents
Chip Sills
Box 8, Folder 10
Jonathan Cape Correspondence
1967-1968
Box 8, Folder 11
Cornell - Society for Humanities
1967-1971
Box 8, Folder 12
Queens College Visitation
1968-1969
Box 8, Folder 13
York Conference - Philosophy of History
1969 April 10-12
Box 8, Folder 14
Wesleyan - Center for the Humanities
Autumn 1969
Box 8, Folder 15
Kenan Professorship
1969-1977
Box 8, Folder 16
New Literary History
1970-1987
Box 8, Folder 17-18
Symcox Case
circa 1970-1975
Box 8, Folder 19
Correspondence - Dead
1971-1972
Box 8, Folder 20
Correspondence - Answered
1971-1976
Box 8, Folder 21
Metahistory - Correspondence with Johns Hopkins
1972-1977
Box 8, Folder 23
Wesleyan - Center for the Humanities
1973-1976
Box 8, Folder 24
Council for Experiment in the Humanities (ACLS)
1974
Box 8, Folder 25
Hayden White - Miscellaneous Correspondence
1973-1976
Box 8, Folder 26
Correspondence
1973-1984
Scope and Contents
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Wesleyan Center for the Humanities, Graduate Students,
CLIO
Box 8, Folder 27
Correspondence/Presses
1973-1989
Box 8, Folder 28
Correspondence
1974-1977
Scope and Contents
Georg Iggers, Rutgers, Cornell, Yale
Box 8, Folder 29
Correspondence - Vita
1974-1978
Scope and Contents
Wesleyan Argus
Box 9, Folder 1
Cornell Society for Science, Tech, Culture
1975
Box 9, Folder 2
Legal documents
1975
Scope and Contents
Documents related to White v. Davis
Box 9, Folder 3
UCSC - Correspondence with administration
1975-1983
Box 9, Folder 4
Eighteenth Century Studies
1975-1985
Box 9, Folder 5
History and Theory
1975-1987
Box 9, Folder 6
Correspondence
1976
Scope and Contents
The School of Criticism and Theory, Center for the Humanities
Box 9, Folder 7
Summer Institute for Aesthetics
1976-1977
Box 9, Folder 8
Correspondence
1976-1978
Scope and Contents
Universitat Konstanz, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell
Box 9, Folder 10
Universal Life Church
1976-1999
Scope and Contents
UCSC (Hayden White Fellowship), Tel Aviv University, University of Bristol, Journal
of Philosophy
Box 9, Folder 11
Correspondence
1976-2007
Scope and Contents
UCSC (Hayden White Fellowship), Tel Aviv University, University of Bristol, Journal
of Philosophy
Box 9, Folder 14
Correspondence
1977-1994
Scope and Contents
UCSC, History of Consciousness
Box 9, Folder 15
Tropics of Discourse: Correspondence with Johns Hopkins Press
1978-1979
Box 9, Folder 16
The 18th Century: Theory and Interpretation
1978-1986
Box 9, Folder 17
Correspondence
1978-1979
Scope and Contents
University of Michigan, Cambridge University Press, Wesleyan, Cornell
Box 9, Folder 18
Students and Faculty Comments
1978-1980
Box 9, Folder 19
Correspondence
1978-1982
Scope and Contents
UCSC, Brown, University of Alabama, Wesleyan, University of Sheffield
Box 9, Folder 20
Correspondence
1979
Scope and Contents
Eugene Genovese
Box 9, Folder 21
Center for Advanced Phenomenological Research
1979-1981
Box 9, Folder 22
Correspondence - Answered
1979-1982
Scope and Contents
Penn State, Comparative Criticism, University of California Press
Box 9, Folder 23
Correspondence
1979-1983
Scope and Contents
Personal miscellaneous correspondence, Joseph Moldenhauer, Paul Schwaber, Edward
Morris
Box 9, Folder 25
Correspondence
1979-1985
Scope and Contents
UCSC, Cornell, Critical Inquiry, Gerald Graff
Box 9, Folder 26
Academy of Literary Studies
1979-1987
Box 9, Folder 28
Correspondence
1979-1990
Scope and Contents
HistCon, SUNY, Victoria College
Box 9, Folder 29
MLA
1980
Scope and Contents
Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts
Box 9, Folder 30
Gauss Seminars: Correspondence
1980
Box 9, Folder 31
University of Kansas, Conference on Hermeneutics
1981 April 2-5
Box 9, Folder 32
Stanford Interpretation Seminar
1980-1981
Box 9, Folder 33
Partisan Review
1980-1982
Box 9, Folder 34
Correspondence
1980-1982
Scope and Contents
Marvin Perry, UCSC
Box 9, Folder 35
School of Criticism and Theory - Northwestern
1980-1987
Box 9, Folder 36
Guggenheim Fellowship
1980-1982
Box 9, Folder 37
University of Michigan, Dearborn Conference
1981 March 19-20
Box 9, Folder 38
School of Criticism Conference, Northwestern
1981 May
Box 9, Folder 39
Illegal Authority: The Appeal to History as Interp. Commonplace
1981
Box 9, Folder 40
Rev. Jameson - Diacritics
1981 October
Box 9, Folder 41
Correspondence
1981-1987
Scope and Contents
Partisan Review, USC, Institute for Vico Studies, Art in America, University of Cape
Town
Box 10, Folder 1
University of Florida
1982 November 4-5
Box 10, Folder 3
Marquette University
1982
Box 10, Folder 5
Narrativity in Representation of the Real
1982
Box 10, Folder 7
Phi Beta Kappa Emerson Awards - Correspondence
1982
Box 10, Folder 8
Correspondence
1982-1983
Scope and Contents
Garry Trompf, UCSC, Periodical Fiction Project
Box 10, Folder 9
Correspondence
1982-1984
Scope and Contents
UCSC, Institute for Vico Studies, Paolo Valesio
Box 10, Folder 10
Requests for articles, reviews, lectures, etc.
1982-1986
Box 10, Folder 11
Correspondence
1982-1984
Scope and Contents
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Warwick, Georgetown
Box 10, Folder 13
University of Illinois Conference of Marxist Criticism
1983 July 8
Box 10, Folder 14
Western Association of German Studies, Madison, Wisconsin
1983
Box 10, Folder 15
University of Ottawa Conference of Ricoeur
1983
Box 10, Folder 16
Italian Hermeneutics
1983
Box 10, Folder 17
Correspondence
1982-1993
Scope and Contents
University of Leiden, UCLA, UC Press, Recommendations for tenure, The Eighteenth
Century: Theory and Interpretation, University of Hong Kong
Box 10, Folder 18
Correspondence
1983-1984
Scope and Contents
Columbia, Requests for Recommendations
Box 10, Folder 19
Correspondence
1983-1987
Scope and Contents
Humanities self studies, UCLA
Box 10, Folder 20
Correspondence
1983-1989
Scope and Contents
Basil Blackwell, UCLA
Box 10, Folder 21
Correspondence
1983-1997
Scope and Contents
Ankersmit, UCSC
Box 10, Folder 22
Written Communication Annual
1984
Box 10, Folder 23
Journal of Communication
1984
Box 10, Folder 24
The Interpretation of Texts - Williams College
1984 January
Box 10, Folder 25
Trip to London
1984 January
Box 10, Folder 26
University of Oregon
1984 February 3
Box 10, Folder 27
San Jose State University
1984 February 24
Box 10, Folder 28
Cultural Critique
1984-1985
Box 10, Folder 29
Semiotic Society of America - California Chapter
1984-1986
Box 10, Folder 31
Correspondence
1984-1988
Scope and Contents
Johns Hopkins Press
Box 10, Folder 32
History and Theory Conference
1985 August
Box 10, Folder 33
American Academy of Religion
1985 November
Box 10, Folder 34
Journal of Social Epistemology
1985-1986
Box 10, Folder 35
History of European Ideas
1985-1986
Box 10, Folder 36
Correspondence
1985-1987
Scope and Contents
UCSC, Indiana University Press, Department of Comparative Literature Copenhagen
Box 10, Folder 38
Johns Hopkins University
1986
Box 10, Folder 39
University of Arizona State Talk
1986
Box 10, Folder 40
Arizona State University
1986
Box 10, Folder 41
Willamette University
1986
Box 10, Folder 42
Dartmouth College
1986 April 11-13
Box 10, Folder 43
Correspondence
1986-1987
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with a variety of presses
Box 10, Folder 44
Institute for Vico Studies
1986-1987
Box 10, Folder 45
Literary Theory and Historical Writing, ed. Ralph Cohen
1986-1988
Box 11, Folder 1
Scripps College - Tropology/Narrative
1987 November 19-20
Box 11, Folder 2
Occidental College - Post-Structuralist Rhetorics
1987 November 18
Box 11, Folder 3
Wesleyan University Lecture
1987 September-October
Box 11, Folder 4
Statewide Academic Senate
1987
Box 11, Folder 5
Quarterly Review of Film Studies
1987
Box 11, Folder 6
Phi Beta Kappa Speakers Panel
1987-1988
Box 11, Folder 7
Correspondence
1987-1988
Scope and Contents
Requests for panels, requests for articles, UCSC, History of Consciousness
Box 11, Folder 8
Correspondence
1987-1992
Scope and Contents
UCSC, personal correspondence, graduate students
Box 11, Folder 9
Correspondence
1987-1993
Scope and Contents
Partha Chatterjee, personal correspondence, invitations to conferences, requests for
articles
Box 11, Folder 11
Inquiries in Social Construction
1988
Box 11, Folder 12
Quarterly Journal of Speech
1988
Box 11, Folder 13
Harvard Committee on History & Literature
1988 April 25-26
Box 11, Folder 14
New School of Social Research Conference on Narrative
1988
Box 11, Folder 15
Carleton College
1988 October
Box 11, Folder 16
University of Chicago Symposium
1989 May 4-5
Box 11, Folder 17
University of Toronto
1988-1990
Box 11, Folder 18
Western Humanities Conference
1988-1990
Box 11, Folder 19
Folger Institute (Washington)
Summer 1989
Box 11, Folder 21
University of Groningen
1989
Box 11, Folder 22
Harvard - Friedrich Lecture
1989-1990
Box 11, Folder 23
History, Memory, Narrative
1989
Box 11, Folder 24
University of Minnesota Lecture
1989
Box 11, Folder 25
Lecture at Vanderbilt University
1989
Box 11, Folder 26
Stanford - Watt/Frank Celebration
1989
Box 11, Folder 27
College Art Association Meeting - San Francisco
1989
Box 11, Folder 30
Correspondence
1989-1993
Scope and Contents
Ranajit Guha, Personal Correspondence, invitations and requests
Box 11, Folder 31-32
Victoria University
1989-1994
Box 11, Folder 34
University of Virginia
1990
Box 11, Folder 35
History and Methodology (Poland)
1990
Box 11, Folder 37
University Professorship
1990-1993
Box 11, Folder 38
Correspondence
1990-1994
Scope and Contents
Personal Correspondence, Newsprint
Box 11, Folder 40
Hernadi Conference, UC Santa Barbara
1991
Box 11, Folder 41
Visit to UC Riverside
Fall 1991
Box 11, Folder 43
Scher Volume - Music & Text
1991
Box 11, Folder 44
Katz Visiting Professor - University of Washington
1991-1992
Box 11, Folder 46
N. Frye Conference
1991-1993
Box 11, Folder 47
Correspondence
1991-1996
Scope and Contents
Personal Correspondence, Translations of Metahistory, Invitations
Box 11, Folder 48
Susan Foster Conference
1992
Box 11, Folder 49
American Film Institute Lecture
1992
Box 11, Folder 50
Visit to UC Santa Barbara
1992
Box 11, Folder 51
Fulton High School - Class of 1946
1992
Box 11, Folder 52
Ecole des hautes Etudes
1992-1993
Box 11, Folder 53
Storia della Stor - Metahistory
1992-1993
Box 11, Folder 54
Duke University Visitation
1993-1994
Box 11, Folder 55
Stanford Conference
1993-1994
Box 11, Folder 56
Barthes Conference - University of Pennsylvania
1993-1994
Box 11, Folder 57
Brasil
1993 September 8-18
Box 11, Folder 59
Open University - London
1993 October 5-6
Box 11, Folder 61
University of Houston Visit
1992-1993
Box 11, Folder 62
University of Groningen - Vico & Metamorphosis
1993
Box 11, Folder 64
19th Century Contexts
1993
Box 11, Folder 67
Stanford Conference on Literature in the Humanities
1993-1994
Box 12, Folder 1
Gumbrecht - Beyond Dualism Conferences and Confabs
1994
Box 12, Folder 3
Concordia University Montreal
1994
Box 12, Folder 8
Getty Center for the Humanities
1994
Box 12, Folder 10
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis - Mieke Bal
1994-1995
Box 12, Folder 11
Correspondence
1994-1996
Scope and Contents
Critical Theories: China and the West, Rethinking History, Personal
Correspondence
Box 12, Folder 12
Stanford Records
1994-2002
Box 12, Folder 13
Wayne State University
1995
Box 12, Folder 14
Response to Marwick (Page proofs)
1995
Box 12, Folder 16
Important Letters - Derrida and Pocock
1995-1996
Scope and Contents
Contains handwritten letters from Jacques Derrida and J.G.A. Pocock
Box 12, Folder 17
EAP Reciprocal Faculty Exchange
1996
Box 12, Folder 18
Suppression of Rhetoric
1996
Box 12, Folder 22
Correspondence
circa 1997
Scope and Contents
Contains a draft with handwritten note from Carl Schorske
Box 12, Folder 23
Ballerini Projects
circa 1997
Box 12, Folder 25
American Philosophical Society
2000
Box 12, Folder 29
Correspondence
2004-2016
Scope and Contents
Personal Correspondence, Requests for Comments, Invitations
Box 12, Folder 30
Yale Center for Cultural Sociology
2004
Box 12, Folder 31
Hayden White in Italian
2007
Box 12, Folder 34
Droysen - Historik
undated
Writings and Publications
1951-2010
Scope and Contents
Materials in this series include drafts and publications written by White, including
iterations of manuscripts, drafts of articles and chapters, and extensive handwritten
prose. Some files within this series contain annotations made either by White or those
editing his work. This series also includes offprints and print-outs of White's
publications, occasional correspondence relating to his work, and reviews written by
others.
Box 12, Folder 37
Metacritical Essays and Early Writings
1951-1990s
Box 12, Folder 38
Various articles
1957-1987
Box 12, Folder 39
Various articles
1958-1990s
Box 12, Folder 40
Various offprints
1958-1992
Box 12, Folder 41
Article - Ibn Khaldun
circa 1959
Box 12, Folder 43
Various offprints
1960-1972
Box 12, Folder 44
Various offprints
1960-1978
Box 12, Folder 45
Various offprints
1960-1994
Box 12, Folder 46
Various offprints
1965-1976
Box 12, Folder 48
Various articles
1968-1992
Box 13, Folder 1
The Tasks of Intellectual History
1969
Box 13, Folder 2
Politics of Control - Philosophy of History
circa 1969
Box 13, Folder 3
Interdisciplinary & 19th Century Studies
1969-2000s
Box 13, Folder 4
World Civ. Text Introduction
1970s
Box 13, Folder 6
Metahistory - Short
circa 1972
Box 13, Folder 7
Various articles
1972-1991
Box 13, Folder 8
Politics of Philosophy of History
1973
Box 13, Folder 10
Reviews in European History
1973-1979
Box 13, Folder 11
Metahistory - Reviews and Letters
1973-1983
Box 13, Folder 12
Reviews of White's Work
1973-1985
Box 13, Folder 13
Various articles
1973-1990
Box 13, Folder 14
Historical Text as Literary Artifact
1974
Box 13, Folder 16
Review of Said, Beginnings for Diacritics
1975
Box 13, Folder 17
Historicism, History, Figurative Imagination
1975
Box 13, Folder 18
Hegel's Logic as a Theory of Figurative Consciousness
1975
Box 13, Folder 19
Various reviews
1975-1978
Box 13, Folder 20
Reviews of Metahistory
1975-1978
Box 13, Folder 22
Various articles
1976-1984
Box 13, Folder 25
Various articles
1978-1987
Box 13, Folder 26
Various articles
1979-1988
Box 13, Folder 27
Literature and Social Action (New Literary History)
1980
Box 13, Folder 30
Possibility of Literary History
circa 1980
Box 13, Folder 31
Foucault's Discourse - The Problem of Style
circa 1980
Box 13, Folder 32
Conventions and Criticism
1981
Box 13, Folder 33
L'histoire comme récit
1981
Box 14, Folder 1
Conventional Conflicts
circa 1981
Box 14, Folder 2
Various offprints
1981-1986
Box 14, Folder 3
Various reprints
1981-1988
Box 14, Folder 4
Various offprints
1981-1992
Box 14, Folder 5
Method & Ideology in Intellectual History
1982
Box 14, Folder 7
Bakhtin Review
circa 1982
Box 14, Folder 9
The Italian Difference and the Politics of Culture
1984
Box 14, Folder 10
He Merged Myth and History
1984 December 23
Box 14, Folder 11
The Interpretation of Texts
circa 1984
Box 14, Folder 12
Various articles
1984-1993
Box 14, Folder 13
Conference on Pluralism Volume
1985
Box 14, Folder 14
Review of Veyne, LaCapra, McCullagh, Ortega (TLS)
1985
Box 14, Folder 15
From Faith to Fatalism
1985
Box 14, Folder 17
TLS Review of Historical Theory
circa 1985
Box 14, Folder 18
Rhetoric of Interpretation
1986
Box 14, Folder 19
Form, Reference, & Ideology in Musical Discourse
1986-1987
Box 14, Folder 20
Content of the Form - Reviews
1986-1991
Box 14, Folder 23
Romantic Doctrine
1987-1989
Box 14, Folder 24
Rosenstone Essay - American Historical Review
1988
Box 14, Folder 25
Rhetoric of Interpretation
1988
Box 14, Folder 26
Literary Theory and Historical Writing
circa 1989
Box 14, Folder 27
History and Memory in European Romanticism
1989
Box 14, Folder 28
Newsprint in Portuguese
1989-1994
Box 14, Folder 29
Intro to Mann, Lotte in Weimar
1990
Box 14, Folder 31
Johns Hopkins
1991 September 26-29
Box 14, Folder 32
Jameson "PoMo" Review
1991
Box 14, Folder 35
White - "Emplotment..."
1992
Box 14, Folder 36
Lefebvre- Production of Space - Review
1993
Box 14, Folder 37
Translation of Centelli Review of Tagliacozzo - Arbor
Scientiae...
circa 1993
Box 14, Folder 38
Review of Lilla - G.B. Vico
1994
Box 14, Folder 41
Titel "H Whites - Diskurs"
1994
Box 14, Folder 43
Marwick Project
1994-1995
Box 15, Folder 2
A Comment on Professor Cohen's Propaedeutic for Literary Change
circa 1995
Box 15, Folder 3
Formalism & Contextualism in Historical Explanation
circa 1995
Box 15, Folder 5
Metahistory and Metafiction
1997
Box 15, Folder 6
Various articles
circa 1997
Box 15, Folder 7
Iggers-White Exchange
1998
Box 15, Folder 8
R. Vann on Hayden White
1998
Box 15, Folder 9
Myth, Memory, and Catastrophe
1998
Box 15, Folder 10
Metatheoretical Meditation
1999
Box 15, Folder 11
Various articles
1999-2000
Box 15, Folder 12
Cosmos, Chaos, Sequence
circa 1999
Box 15, Folder 13
Narrative, Description, Tropology
circa 1999
Box 15, Folder 14
News Clippings
circa 2000
Box 15, Folder 15
Auerbach - Figural Causation
2000s
Box 15, Folder 16
Storytelling - Historical and Ideological
2000s
Box 15, Folder 18
Modern, -ism, -ity
circa 2003
Box 15, Folder 21
The Historical Event
circa 2008
Box 15, Folder 22
Frye's Place in Cultural Studies
circa 2010
Box 15, Folder 24
The Discourse of History (Drafts I-XI)
undated
Box 15, Folder 25
Burden of History
undated
Box 15, Folder 26
Intellectual Historiography
undated
Box 15, Folder 27
Discourse of History
undated
Box 15, Folder 28
Bodies and Their Plots
undated
Box 15, Folder 29
Rebirth of Rhetoric
undated
Box 15, Folder 30
Return of the Moral Imagination
undated
Box 15, Folder 31
True, False, Figurative
undated
Box 15, Folder 33
Vico and the Production of Genre
undated
Box 15, Folder 34
Identity, Memory, and History
undated
Box 15, Folder 35
Writing in the Middle Voice
undated
Box 15, Folder 36
History and Memory in European Romanticism
undated
Box 15, Folder 37
Narrative & Ideology
undated
Box 15, Folder 40
Croce & Renewal of Italian Culture
undated
Box 15, Folder 41
History Writing as Non-Fictional Prose
undated
Box 15, Folder 42
Vico and Modernism (REV)
undated
Box 15, Folder 43
Interpretation: History of
undated
Box 15, Folder 44
The Possibilities of Literary Histories
undated
Box 15, Folder 45
Interpretation in the Social Sciences
undated
Talks, Speeches, and Conferences
1964-2009
Arrangement
This series is divided into three sub-series:
- Speaking Materials
- Conference Files
- Audio and Video Recordings
Files in each sub-series are arranged chronologically.
Related Materials
Additional materials related to conferences can be found in the Correspondence
series.
Scope and Contents
This series contains speaking scripts and notes from a variety of talks and conference
presentations given and attended by White. It also contains relevant correspondence
regarding particular conferences when extensive speaking notes are housed in the same
folder. A wide range of different events is represented in this series, including talks
given at student orientations/commencements, conference papers, and public lectures.
White's global presence is manifest in this series, as these materials show professional
involvement in institutions both domestically and abroad.
Box 16, Folder 1
The Interplay of Abilities and Virtues
1964 October
Box 16, Folder 2
Talk to Frosh
1965 September 19
Box 16, Folder 3
Knowing and Learning
circa early-1970s
Box 16, Folder 4
Hobert Conference on Teaching
1971 January 9
Box 16, Folder 5
Lecture: Irrationalism in the Enlightenment
1971 April 23
Box 16, Folder 6
Narrative Strategies in Historical Interpretation (AHA)
circa early-1970s
Box 16, Folder 7
Saratoga Springs Conference on Philosophy and the Arts - Comment on
Professor Peckham's Essay
1973 November 2-5
Box 16, Folder 8
Parent's Day Address
1974 April 27
Box 16, Folder 11-12
Future of the Humanities (MS)
1974
Box 16, Folder 13
The Literature of Fact - English Institute Meeting
1975 August
Box 16, Folder 14
Humanities Today - University of Colorado - CWA
1975 March
Box 16, Folder 15
Absurdist Criticism (for M. Krieger)
1976
Box 16, Folder 16
Tagliacozzo - Vico Conference
1976 January 28-31
Box 16, Folder 18
Il Discorso di Foucault
circa 1976
Box 16, Folder 19
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
1982 October 22-23
Box 16, Folder 20
Vogler-Black Conference
1982
Box 16, Folder 21
Literacy, Communication, and Poetic Language
circa late 1980s
Box 16, Folder 23
Margaret Brose - Foscolo
1993
Box 16, Folder 25
The Practical Past public lecture and panel - University of
Alabama
2009 April
Box 16, Folder 26
Foucault and Cultural Studies
undated
Box 16, Folder 29
Wayne State University Conference on "Identity"
undated
Box 16, Folder 30
Auerbach Lecture - Poznan
undated
Box 16, Folder 31
Ideology and Counter-Ideology
undated
Box 16, Folder 32
Narrative Modes and Ideological Strategies
undated
Box 16, Folder 33
Romanticism and Historicism as Figures of Thought
circa 1974
Box 16, Folder 34
Popular Culture Conference - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
1974
Box 16, Folder 35
Michelet's Method - Paper Given at Johns Hopkins University
1975
Box 16, Folder 36
Fictions of Factual Representation - Paper Given at English Institute
Cambridge
1975 August
Box 16, Folder 37
Talk at Clark Library, Los Angeles
1976
Box 16, Folder 38
Lecture - History and Religion
1978-1984
Box 16, Folder 39
A Symposium on Narrative - University of Chicago
1979
Box 16, Folder 40
Metahistory Conference
1979 March 16-17
Box 16, Folder 41
The Limits of Relativism in the Arts. U. Ga.
1981 April
Box 16, Folder 42
Humanities Conference - UC-CSU - Berkeley
1983 May 13-14
Box 16, Folder 43
AHA Panel - San Francisco
1983 December
Box 16, Folder 44
Conference on the Bible as Literature UCSC
1986
Box 16, Folder 45
MLA - Frye Lecture
circa 1987
Box 16, Folder 46
Tagliacozzo Conference - Toronto
1991 October 24-27
Box 16, Folder 47
Frye Memorial Lecture
1993
Box 16, Folder 49
Derrida Flyers - Cruelty, Death Penalty, the "Return of the
Religious"
2002
Box 16, Folder 50
Budapest - Historical Studies: Disciplines and Discourses
2004 July
Box 16, Folder 51
Conference - Budapest - Center for Historical Studies
2004
Box 16, Folder 52
China - Historiography Today
2007
Box 16, Folder 54
History and Theory
circa 2009
Fragments... from the life of a mind
2019
Scope and Contents
Commemorative booklet published for and distributed at the
Against
Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
symposium at UC Santa Cruz,
November 1-2, 2019.
Audio and Video Recordings
1983-2002
Scope and Contents
Include talks by White as well as collected recordings not featuring White.
Conditions Governing Access
Audiovisual media is unavailable until reformatted. Contact Special Collections in
advance for information regarding access.
Box 21
Hayden White Closing remarks - Dartmouth College Conference
1983 May 15
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Box 21
"The Unperfect Actor", "America Coast to Coast"
1983 November
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Box 21
Conversations of Postmodernism and Cultural Studies - University of
Toronto
1991 October
Physical Description: 1 VHS
Box 21
Lecture: History as Phantasm - University of Kent, Canterbury
UK
1999 March 24
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Box 21
Lecture: History as Fulfillment - University of Kent, Canterbury
UK
circa 1999
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Box 21
Norman O. Brown Memorial Celebration
2002 October 19
Physical Description: 1 VHS
Scope and Contents
Includes event program.
Box 21
Untitled
undated
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Teaching Files
1970-2014
Arrangement
This series is divided into three sub-series:
- Lecture Notes
- Course Materials
- Audio Recordings
Files in each sub-series are arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
This series contain a range of materials from courses administered by White. The first
sub-series, Lecture Notes, contains notes and prose used by White in classroom settings.
Lecture notes from his time at UCLA, UCSC, and other institutions are represented in
this section. The second sub-series, Course Materials, primarily contains handouts and
graphics used by White in his classes. The third sub-series, Audio Recordings, contains
recordings on audio cassettes from selected lectures in his Introduction to History of
Consciousness (HIST 50A) course in 1985 and 1986.
Box 17, Folder 1
History 1A and 1B - UCLA
1971-1972
Box 17, Folder 2
Various lecture notes
circa 1970s
Box 17, Folder 3
HistCon 203A Course Materials and Notes
1984
Box 17, Folder 5
Various lecture notes
1993-1995
Box 17, Folder 6
Hist. Revisionism
circa 1997
Box 17, Folder 7
History in General
early 2000s
Box 17, Folder 8
Various lecture notes
2000s
Box 17, Folder 9
Narration and Description
2000s
Box 17, Folder 10
Proceedings of the British Academy
2007
Box 17, Folder 12
The Historical Past
circa late 2000s
Box 17, Folder 14
Various lecture notes
circa 2012
Box 17, Folder 16
Wuthering Heights
undated
Box 17, Folder 18
Language, Signs, and Codes
undated
Box 17, Folder 19
Historical Narrative
undated
Box 17, Folder 21-31
Various lecture notes
undated
Course Materials
1970-2008
Box 17, Folder 32
Student work samples
1970-1982
Box 17, Folder 33
Magazine Clippings
1987-1988
Box 17, Folder 36
Abu Ghraib
circa mid-2000s
Box 17, Folder 37
Scandal - Graphics
late 2000s
Box 17, Folder 38
The Renaissance - Chron/Bibliography
undated
Box 17, Folder 41
Unsorted course materials
undated
Box 17, Folder 42
A Tale of Two Cities
undated
Box 17, Folder 44
Sentimental Education
undated
Audio Recordings
1985-1986
Conditions Governing Access
These audiovisual recordings have been digitized; original formats of audiovisual
media cannot be accessed. Contact Special Collections in advance for information
regarding access to digitized files.
Introduction to the History of Consciousness 50A
Hayden White - Introduction to History of Consciousness lectures, 1985-1986
Scope and Contents
These audiocassettes contain recordings of lectures from White's Introduction to
History of Consciousness class in 1985 and 1986. Descriptions of each recording were
transcribed from the audiocassette cases.
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0001
1985 January 13
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
Wednesday January 15 missing
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0002
1986 January 8
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
Introductory lecture to course. Good quality tape. One hour, 30 minutes each
side. End of lecture on sex, work, violence, knowing missing 15 minutes.
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0003
1986 January 10
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
On Freud and Lacan. Low quality tape, 1 hour 15 minutes total
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0004
1986 January 22
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
Theory of Semiology, Analysis of Ad: Angie Dickinson and Avocados, Analysis of
Book of Genesis, Similarity/Difference, Purity and (?)
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0005
1986 January 27
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
Theory of the Subject. How is human society constituted? Metaphor of
socio-biology, Consciousness/conscience ad, Freud, "Topography" of Body and
Psyche, Superego/id/ego
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0006
1986 January 29
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
The explosion of Challenger. Communication grid; On authoritative speakers; On
teaching, skepticism, talk shows, the Army; The Subject, Lacan and Freud;
Narcissism/anaclitic love; Imaginary/symbolic; Desire; The Unconscious and Memory,
Freud/Jung; Birth, mirror stage, Oedipus complex; The Mirror Stage; The body is
territoritizable; Imaginary/symbolic summary.
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0007
1986 February 3
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
"Key lecture for my work." On marginality, sex, work, violence, knowledge; Hayden
goes over the handout "how to write an essay"; HOC as the study of coding systems;
The social contract; human vs. animal life, what is a meaningful life?; The master
themes: sex, work, violence, knowledge; Blessing/curse; Area of ambiguity: live
and survive on the margin; Mary Douglas; Legit? Illegit?
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0008
1986 February 5
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
On Foucault's
Madness and Civilization, chapters 1 and 2;
Factology/ideology/myth; History of western civilization; Homogeneity culture, the
inside, the deviant
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0009
1986 February 12
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
What is history of consciousness? Review of basic principles.
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0010
1986 February 19
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
Continuation of review of concepts. The master/slave relationship; Adolescence;
Foucault and
Madness and Civilization, the silent treatment,
recognition by the mirror, perpetual self-judgement; On Freud, narcissistic love,
anaclitic love
Box 21
ms0323_rec_0011
1986 February 24
Physical Description: 1 audiocassette
Scope and Contents
Mimesis, Auerbach. On metonymy, on metaphor, on naming.
Awards, Degrees, and Photographs
1951-2015
Scope and Contents
This series contains diplomas and awards from institutions with which White was
affiliated, as well as related photographs and ephemera. Also included are posters from
many of White's lectures and other events, as well as plaques White received from
various organizations.
Box 19
Bachelor of Arts - Wayne University
1951
General note
Wayne University was renamed Wayne State University in 1956.
Box 19
Phi Kappa Phi - University of Michigan
1953
Box 20
Poster: The Metaphysics of Western History - Taiwan
1993
Box 18, Folder 2
Commencement script and photographs - University of Michigan
1995
Box 18, Folder 3
Honorary Doctorate - University of Michigan
1995
Box 18, Folder 4
Commencement Ephemera
1995-2014
Box 18, Folder 5
Various commencement photographs
1990s-2000s
Box 19
Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award - UC Santa Cruz
2001
Box 20
Poster: Collections, Cultural Heritage and Historical Interpretation -
Taiwan
2004
Box 20
Poster: Translating History: Knowledges, Practices, Powers - UC Santa
Cruz
2004
Box 18, Folder 6
Honorary Degree - University of Bucharest
2010
Box 20
Poster: Gastvortrag - Berlin
2010
Box 18, Folder 7
Honorary Doctorate - Wesleyan University
2014 May
Box 19
Honorary Doctorate - Wesleyan University
2014 May
Box 18, Folder 8
Honorary Doctorate - Freie Universität Berlin
2015
Box 20
Poster: Sir Isaiah Berlin: The Origins of Cultural History
undated
Digital Files
1992-2017
Physical Description: 40.7
GB 34,270 digital files
Conditions Governing Access
Digital files are available in the UCSC Special Collections and Archives reading room.
Some files may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Technical limitations
may hinder the Library's ability to provide access to some digital files. Access to
digital files on original carriers is prohibited; users must request to view access
copies. Contact Special Collections and Archives in advance to request access to digital
files.
Organization and Arrangement
The series originates from three sources: Disks (files from portable disks), MacBook
Pro (files from White's personal laptop computer), and Humanities (files from White's
Humanities desktop computer). Original order of the digital material, including file
names and folder arrangement, has been retained without intervention by archives
staff.
Additional Collection Guides
For a complete inventory of the contents of Series 7: Digital Files, see the following
guide:
To access redacted versions of the email messages in this collection, see the ePADD
Discovery site:
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Access to the born digital materials of the Hayden White Papers is available on-site in
the UCSC Special Collections & Archives reading room. The software application
QuickView Plus is recommended for reading and viewing, and is provided for use in the
reading room. Note that some files stored may be inaccessible due to obsolete formats,
lack of required software, or file degradation.
Processing Information
The digital materials in this collection were processed by Patrick King, Kate Dundon,
and Alix Norton in 2019. Digital files were transferred from carrier disks in 2019
including 46 3.5-inch floppy disks, two ZIP disks, 15 CDs, one 2TB external hard drive,
one 500GB external hard drive, and one iMac Aluminum desktop computer. Files on the
500GB hard drive and iMac computer were found to be have duplicated files in the Time
Machine backups on the 2TB hard drive; only the files on the 2TB drive containing
backups from the two computers were transferred.
DataAccessioner v1.1 was used to capture digital files from carrier disks. Tools used
in the analysis of files included DROID and TreeSize Pro to identify duplicate files and
calculate file sizes, Bulk Extractor and manual file review to locate personal
identifying information, ePADD to review email, and Karen's Directory Printer to create
a file directory PDF.
Files including personal identifiable information were deleted, in accordance with UCSC
Special Collections & Archives privacy policy. These include financial information;
medical, student, employment, and legal records; and other private files. Duplicate
files over 5 MB; system and temporary files; internet browsing files; application files;
drivers and software installers; and files created by the Macintosh computing
environment (e.g. thumbs.db, .DS_Store) were removed. CDs and DVDs with out-of-scope
content (e.g., readily available films and music) were not transferred. A number of
floppy disks were not able to be transferred due to technological constraints. Original
disks were retained and are included in the collection, with the exception of the hard
drive containing the Time Machine backups from White's two personal computers.
Processor
Digital materials processed by Patrick King in 2019 in the Center for Archival Research
and Training (CART), under the direction of Kate Dundon and Alix Norton.
Scope and Contents
This series includes the contents of White's Macintosh hard drives and portable disks
(e.g. floppy disks, CDs, ZIP disks). It contains writing and publications; research
files; syllabi and teaching files; conference and lecture activities; photographic
material related to family, travel, and academic events; and email correspondence, both
personal and professional.
Materials related to White's writing and research include numerous drafts and finished
versions of articles, reviews, and talks between 1992 and 2017, some of which would end
up in three published collections,
Figural Realism (1999),
The
Fiction of Narrative
(2010), and
The Practical Past (2014). The
topics covered in the digital files span historical theory, historical temporality,
intellectual history, and the practice of history writing; modernism, postmodernism,
utopia, nationalism, literary criticism, aesthetics, and narratology; Holocaust studies,
trauma theory, and witness literature.
Across both the digital files and email correspondence there can also be found
dialogues and debates that White had with other scholars; publishers' proofs and
editorial conversations related to book manuscripts and peer-review journals; and
communications about events, research programs, summer institutes, and academic seminars
connected with universities in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia.
White's research notes comprise .pdf files of texts on specific topics or related to
particular authors as well as articles downloaded directly from web browsers. A typical
example includes his materials on the Enlightenment, which resulted in the paper "The
Limits of Enlightenment: Enlightenment as Metaphor and Concept."
A portion of the files concern translations of White's previous work into other
languages, prefaces drafted for those translations or re-publications, and forewords he
was asked to write for titles by other authors.
Photographs in the digital files mainly correspond to White's travels to conferences
and historical sites around the world, as well as personal and family gatherings. Many
photographs are informal portraits of friends, family, and colleagues, and White
himself, and some show architectural features of historical sites he visited.
File formats in the digital files include Microsoft Word document files (.doc), Portal
Document Format files (.pdf), Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt), Chrome HTML files
(.html), Rich Text Format files (.rtf), email files (.emlx), and various graphics
formats (.tiff; .png; .jpeg; .gif). The most represented file types in the digital
materials are graphics (.tiff, .jpg, .gif. Etc. - 88%), followed by Microsoft Office
files (mostly .doc and .docx - 4%) and video (2.4%) and audio (2.3%).
These digital materials were transferred from three main components of White's digital
computing environment: portable disks such as 3.5" floppy disks, ZIP disks, and CDs;
White's Humanities computer, which was a Macintosh desktop personal computer that he
used on the UC Santa Cruz campus; and White's MacBook Pro laptop, which he used on
campus and at his home.
Disks
The files from portable disks were created between approximately 1992 and 2017, and
contain word processor files (file type is generically labeled "File," written on Mac
5), many essays that would end up in the 2000 collection
Figural Realism
(the manuscript for that work is contained here); some work on modernism surrounding
Stein, Baudelaire/Mallarme; and work on historiography, catastrophe, memory, utopia,
identity. Numerous lectures and papers that he gave at conferences are included, which
are often labeled by location or venue. Most of the academic work from the 1990s and
2000s represented on these disks are from invited lectures and publications, as well as
research projects in which he was involved. The material from the 2000s include some
material on the restructuring of the Humanities division at UC Santa Cruz, but not much
information on other university happenings or teaching files, as White was splitting his
time between Italy and the United States for much of the 1990s and 2000s.
Humanities desktop computer
The Humanities computer component of files was created between approximately the late
2000s to 2015. Between the two components of files from White's computers, the
Humanities desktop contains the vast majority: 88% of files are on the Humanities
computer, and 12% of files are on White's personal MacBook Pro laptop. Included in this
component of files are a final draft of White's 2014 publication
The Practical
Past
and research files on the Holocaust, the Enlightenment ("Modernity",
Enlightenment project), and Primo Levi/Exile. Many PDF files that White utilized for
research purposes are included in this component, as well as multiple interviews and a
memorial piece on Frank Kermode.
MacBook Pro laptop computer
The MacBook Pro laptop computer component of files was created between approximately
2005 and 2015. The topic of the Holocaust is well represented in this component. Also
included are White's responses to criticism, material related to talks that White gave,
and a PowerPoint file on Dante that may have been used as a teaching file. Of particular
interest are Judith Butler's notes on the "Truth and Circumstance" chapter in White's
The Practical Past; drafts of a paper on historical discourse and
literary theory from a conference in Jena, Germany in 2011; and drafts and notes on
White's later essays which were perhaps included in
The Fiction of
Narrative
,
The Historical Imagination collections, and/or
The Practical Past (in folders titled "New Book" and "PP").
Box 21
Physical media containers ms0323_med_0001 - ms0323_med_0117
Physical Description: 46 3.5" floppy disks, 2 ZIP
disks, 15 CDs
Scope and Contents
These are the physical containers that some of the digital files originated from, and
includes floppy disks, ZIP disks, and CDs. The files corresponding to these items are
in the Disks portion of the digital files.
