Correspondence, scrapbooks, publications, and memorabilia from Norman Foerster's personal life and career. Also includes photograph albums, lectures, notes, and essays on the subject of humanism.

Norman Foerster was an American author and editor. Foerster was also a professor of literature and a proponent of the New Humanist movement. He was born 14 April 1887 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died 1 August 1972 in Palo Alto, California. A.B. Harvard: 1910; A.M., University of Wisconsin: 1912; Litt.D., Uuniversity of South: 1931. University professor and instigator of New Humanist movement in American criticism. As its chief spokesman, he edited its manifesto Humanism and America (1930). Instructor in English, University of Wisconsin, 1911-1914; associate professor English, University of North Carolina, 1914-1919, professor, 1919-1930; director School of Letters and professor English, University of Iowa, 1930-1944; visiting professor English, Duke University, 1948-1949. Author of Outlines and Summaries, Sentences and Thinking, Nature in American Literature, American Criticism, The American Scholar, Towards Standards, The American State University, The Future of the Liberal College, The Humanities and the Common Man. Editor of Essays for College Men, Selected Literary Essays from James Russell Lowell, Chief American Prose Writers, American Ideals, English poetry of the 19th century, American Poetry and Prose, Humanism and America, and American Critical Essays.

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