Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Roland Dennis Hussey Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1943-1946
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 16
Collector:
Hussey, Roland Dennis
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size document box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Abstract: Files acquired with Roland D. Hussey's book collection; includes research and analysis reports from the Office of Strategic
Services during WWII.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Roland Dennis Hussey Collection. Bernath Mss 16. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1960.
Biography
Roland Dennis Hussey (1887-1959) was born in Massachusetts, received his M.A. in history from Harvard University and his Ph.D.
in history from UCLA. He was a longtime faculty member of the History Department at UCLA, ca. 1930-1954. His field was Latin
American history. During World War II and the postwar years of 1942-1947, Hussey served the U.S. Department of State as Assistant
Chief of the Office of American Republic Affairs, and as Divisional Chief of the Office of Intelligence. He was author of
works such as
The Caracas Company, 1728-1784 (1934) and co-editor/translator of the
Documents on Inter-American Cooperation: 1810-1948, 2 vols. (1955)
. Hussey also was director for many years of the program to produce the multi-volume
Handbook of Latin-American Studies, and was editor of and frequent contributor to the
Hispanic-American Historical Review.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains U.S. State Department Official Dispatches, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis Reports
and other documents mainly relating to the Sinarquista Movement in Mexico during World War II. Some items originally were
marked confidential or secret, but have since been declassified.
This manuscript collection accompanied a much larger collection of books on Latin American history, which was purchased by
the UCSB Library in 1960.