Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Civil War Round Table (Stockton, Calif.) Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1962-1976
Collection number: Mss173
Creator:
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Civil War Round Table (Stockton, Calif.)
Papers, Mss173, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of
the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
Shaw, William Lawrence
personal name
Webber, Alfred B.
corporate name
California. Civil War Centennial Commission
corporate name
Civil War Round Table (Chicago, Ill.)
corporate name
Civil War Round Table (Sacramento, Calif.)
corporate name
Civil War Round Table (Stockton, Calif.)
subject
United States -History -Civil War, 1861-1865
subject
United States -Foreign relations -Japan
subject
Historians -California -Correspondence
subject
California -History -Sources
subject
History -Study and teaching -California
Biography
Working with historical groups and colleges the Civil War Centennial
Commission of California sought to promote an understanding of the Civil War
with programs, pageants, and special events. William Shaw, from the Commission,
came to Stockton, at the request of R.R. Stuart, Director of the California
History Foundation, to help establish a local Civil War Round Table. Faculty at
the University of the Pacific and individuals in the Lodi/Stockton area then
formed a chapter of the Civil War Round Table Association (1962). According to
the Sacramento Articles of Incorporation the groups were formed to perpetuate
an interest in the Civil War by every appropriate means: to further the
collection of Civil War relics; to extend the preservation of records of the
Civil War and the perfection of accurate information as to such records; to
encourage trips by interested individuals to locations linked to the Civil War;
to bring to the organization members, speakers and lecturers; and to encourage
dramas or plays.
Scope and Content
The Civil War Round Table Papers consists chiefly of memos and programs
of local meetings (1962-1976). Also included are member essays on various
aspects of the Civil War and some materials from the Civil War Centennial
Commission of California.
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