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Title: Robert V. Hine papers
Date (inclusive): 1950-1997
Collection Number: UA 083
Creator:
Hine, Robert V., 1921-2015
Extent:
5 linear feet
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: This collection includes manuscripts, A/V materials, correspondence, and other materials from Robert V. Hine, Professor Emeritus
of History. Includes several manuscripts of his published works; materials on the Irvine Ranch, Irvine Corporation, and the
Llano Cooperative Colony; and records documenting the early academics of UC Riverside.
Languages: The collection is in English.
This collection is open for research.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Robert V. Hine papers (UA 083). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Biographical / Historical Note
Robert V. Hine (1921-2015) was a founding member of the University of California, Riverside faculty where he taught history
from 1954 to 1990. He was born in Los Angeles, California, attended UCLA and received his undergraduate degree from Pomona
College in 1948. Hine went on to do graduate work at Yale University where he was awarded a PhD in 1952. Professor Hine joined
UC Riverside as a founding member of the History Department and served as department chair from 1962 to 1967. He was a prolific
writer and published over ten books on the history of the American West, California, and utopianism as well as textbooks,
several works of fiction, and memoirs. Hine retired from UC Riverside in 1990 and moved to Irvine, CA where he held the title
of Professor Recalled at UC Irvine.
This collection includes manuscripts, films, correspondence, and other material regarding Robert V. Hine, Professor Emeritus
of History at UC Riverside.
Series I has manuscripts for the following books by Professor Hine:
The American West: a new interpretive history,
Bartlett's West: drawing the Mexican boundary,
Community on the American Frontier: separate but not alone,
Josiah Royce: from Grass Valley to Harvard, and a biography of William Andrew Spalding.
Series II is an assortment of research materials broken into three sub-series: materials on the Irvine Ranch, photographs
and film on the New Llano Cooperative Colony, and facsimiles of the James Theodore Talbot correpsondence.
Series III contains materials pertaining to Hine's role as a founding member of the UC Riverside faculty. Documents include
early humanities curriculum, academic senate records, and committee materials.
The collection is arranged in three series as follows.
- Series 1. Manuscripts, 1960-1991
- Series 2. Research Materials, 1950-1997
- Series 3. University of California, Riverside, 1954-1967
See also the Robert Hine papers at the Huntington Library (https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8v129ht/entire_text/).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
University of California, Riverside. Department of History
Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Talbot, Theodore, 1825-1862
Socialism
American Frontier
West (U.S.)
California -- History
New Llano (La.)
Audiovisual materials
Correspondence
Manuscripts