Guide to the Edward Chase Kirkland Papers, 1813-1974, undated
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Edward Chase Kirkland Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Edward Chase Kirkland (1894-1975) was a historian, author, and professor of history at Bowdoin College. Kirkland's main fields of interest included economic history, railroad history, and New England history. He wrote many books, including The Peacemakers of 1864 (1927); A History of American Economic Life (1932); Men, Cities, and Transportation (1948); Business in the Gilded Age, The Conservatives' Balance Sheet (1952); Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900 (1956); Industry Comes of Age (1961) Charles Francis Adams Jr., 1835-1915: The Patrician at Bay (1965); and A Bibliography of American Economic History Since 1861 (1971). His textbook A History of American Economic Life was widely used in American classrooms for nearly thirty years.
Kirkland received an A.B. degree from Dartmouth (1916) and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard (1921, 1924). He also received honorary degrees of Litt.D. from Dartmouth (1948), Cambridge (1956), Princeton (1957), and Bowdoin (1961).
In 1917, Kirkland enlisted in the United States Army. During WWI, he served in the Army Ambulance Corps attached to the French Army. A wound earned him the Croix de Guerre.
Kirkland took a position at Bowdoin College in 1930, where he stayed until 1959 when he retired to become a full-time writer. He also held positions as Messinger Lecturer at Cornell (1956), Knapp Professor at Wisconsin (1951), Commonwealth Lecturer at University College, London (1952), Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University (1956-1957), and Guggenheim Fellow (1955)
Kirkland served as president of the American Association of University Professors (1946-1948), the Economic History Association (1953-1954), and the Mississippi Valley Historical Society, later the Organization of American Historians (1955-1956).
Kirkland married Ruth Stevens Babson in 1924 and they had one son, Edward S. Kirkland.
The collection primarily contains handwritten lectures and lecture notes. Also included are class materials used in his classes at Bowdoin College; drafts of his published works; correspondence and documents regarding published materials; images used in the book Men, Cities, and Transportation; and documents and legal reports regarding Kirkland's membership and affiliations with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, and the Phi Beta Kappa Senate.
Series contains class materials from Kirkland's time as Frank Munsey Professor of History at Bowdoin College, including class syllabi, assignments, class notes, and some research notes.
Arranged chronologically.
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History 11, 1932-33, 1944, 1951-1952
History 12, 1949
History 17, 1947-1949
History 18, 1955
History 122b American Economic Life, 1950-1951
History 209 Studies in American Economic History, 1950-1951
Other Assorted Material, 1935, undated
Research Notes, undated
Series contains drafts of published works, biographies written by Kirkland for publication, and some editorial comments. Also included are correspondence and notes regarding published material.
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Arranged alphabetically by book title, followed by alphabetized subject files.
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 1 - "Family and Place"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 1 (Edited Copy) - "Catching the Step"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 2 - "Catching the Step"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 2 (Edited Copy) - "Railroad Reformer"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 2 Notes - Massachusetts Historical Society Publications
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 3 - "Reformer"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 3 (Edited) - "Making a Fortune"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 4 - "Making a Fortune"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 5 - "The Union Pacific Failure"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 5 (Edited) - "The Union Pacific Failure"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 5 (Unpublished General Discords) - "The Union Pacific Failure"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 6 - "Farewell to Reform"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 6 (Edited) - "Farewell to Reform"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Chap. 7 - "Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man"
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Memorabilia
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Working Lists
Charles Francis Adams Jr. 1835-1915: Other Material
Daniels, Winthrop More Biography: Drafts
Daniels, Winthrop More Biography: Secondary Material
Daniels, Winthrop More Biography: Research Notes
Dream and Thought in the Business Community: Chap. 6 (Original) - "Don't Shoot the Millionaire"
A Decade of American Histories by Thomas C. Cochran
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 1 - "War and Good Times"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 2 - "Railroads - Building and Financing"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 8 - "The Development of a Domestic Market"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 9 - "The Transformation of Industry"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 10 - "The [?] of Capital"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 11 - "The Organization of Industry"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 12 - "Building American Cities"
Industry Comes of Age: Chap. 14 - "The American Menace Abroad"
Industry Comes of Age: "The Drive Against Monopoly"
Men, Cities, and Transportation: Correspondences
Scientific Eating: Final Draft - Handwritten Draft
Scientific Eating: Revised Final Draft
Scientific Eating: Footnotes and Other Materials
Biographies
Draft, Fragments
Editorial Comments
"[?] Freedom of Big Business", Notes for Proposed Book Chap. 9
Series contains handwritten lectures and addresses given between 1943 and 1963, the majority undated. Also included are documents pertaining to Kirkland's television lecture at the University of Texas.
Academic Freedom in America
The Achievement of Neutrality (Lecture No. 27)
The Agricultural Depression 1920-1933
The Agriculture of the Plains
American Audience
The American Capitalist (Lecture No. 12)
The American City as Business Unit
American Civilization 1450-1960, as told by the Twenty Great Living Historians on Television
The American Classes in the Nineteenth Century (Lecture No. 18)
The American College: Renaissance
American Conquest of Cuba and Phillipines (Lecture No. 20)
The American Dream
American Empire - Panama and Mexico (Lecture No. 24)
The American Finale (Lecture No. 31)
American Freedom in Peril
The American Fur Trade (Lecture No. 4)
The American People (Lecture No. 1)
The American Protectorates (Lecture No. 25)
The American Sailing Ship (Lecture No. 10)
The American University and Adult Education
The American Writers
The Anti-Slavery Crusade (Lecture No. 22)
The Anti-Slavery Movement
The Arrival of Democracy
The Arts in American Life: Music and Architecture
The Arts in American Life: Painting and Sculpture
The Attempt at Union
The Automobile
The Automobile and and the Highways
The Beginning of an Era 1840-1850 (Lecture No. 23)
A Belated War (Lecture No. 11)
Big Business in the Steel Industry (Lecture No. 6)
Birth and Death (Lecture No. 1)
Boston During the Civil War (Thetford Center, Vermont, 1955)
Business and the Colleges: A Ninetheenth Century Encounter (Bowdoin College, 1961)
The Business Man: Capitalist, Imperialist, Warmonger, or Peace-Lover (City College of New York, 1962)
Business Men and the Colleges (City College of New York, 1962)
California: Spanish, Mexican, American
The Canal Era (Lecture No. 12)
The Canal System of the Middle States (Lecture No. 13)
Causation in Historical Events
Causes and Course of Immigration
The Causes of the Spanish American War
Challenge and Defeat
Charles Francis Adams Jr.: The Making of a Historian
The Chemical Industry
Church and State in the British Colonies (Lecture No. 1)
The Church and the Business World
The Civil War in the West
Classes and Masses in the New Nation
The Colonization of North America
The Coming Triumph of Private Education (Frederick Female Seminary, Hood College, 1955)
Competition in Steel (Lecture No. 5)
Competition in the Petroleum Business (Lecture No. 3)
Connecticut Pensions a Martyr
Conservation and Electricity
The Consolidation of Democracy
Critical Period - East and West (Lecture No. 8)
The Cultural Background of the Age
The Culture of the West
The Decade of Expansion - Spanish Mexican Barrier
The Decisive Year
The Decline of the Arts in America
The Democracy: Structure and Policy
Diplomacy and American Interest in Mexico
The Distribution of Population
The Eastern Stalemate
Economic and Political Reasons of Revolution (Lecture No. 4)
Economic Revolution (Lecture No. 11)
The Educational Renaissance (Lecture No. 23)
The Effect of the Civil War on the Economy (Carleton College, 1962)
The Election of 1860
The Election of 1896
Electric Industry (Lecture No. 10)
The Electrical Empire
English Mercantilism and her Colonies (Lecture No. 3)
Establishing of National Government (Lecture No. 4)
Exploration of the Far West
The Failure in Sesession (includes letter dated 1864 Oct 27, L. J. Glascock to his son C. W. Glascock)
A Federalist Fracas
The Federalist Tradition
The Fight for Peace
The Fisheries of North America (Lecture No. 9)
Foreign Affairs 1790-1800 (Lecture No. 5)
Foreign Affairs 1865-1877 (Lecture No. 8)
Foreign Policy 1816-1824 (Lecture No. 14)
The Foreign Policy of the Republican Dynasty
Freedom and Communism in the Colleges and Universities (Dartmouth College)
The French Revolution in America
The Goal of Equality and Business Dissent (Conference on the History of the Forest Products Industries, Harvard Business School, 1966)
A Government of Gentlemen
The Growth of Disbelief
The Growth of the School System
Heretics and Hermits
The Hostile Image of the Businessman
The Humanitarian Movement: Dependent Classes (Lecture No. 13)
The Humanitarian Movement: Reform of Manners (Lecture No. 29)
Immigration (Lecture No. 3)
Immigration and Its Effects
Immigration: Attitudes and Policy (Lecture No. 4)
Immigration: Impact and Influences
The Industrial Revolution in America (Lecture No. 13)
Industries and Transportation
The Intellectual Concepts of the Age
Internal Migragion (Lecture No. 5)
Internal Migragion 1790-1860
The International Education of Woodrow Wilson (Lecture No. 27)
Jefferson and the American College (includes note from College President Sills to E.C. Kirkland dated 1943 April 14)
Jefferson Triumphant (Lecture No. 8)
The Jeffersonian Tradition
Labor Status and Welfare
Magazines, Newspapers, and Advertising
Magazines, Newspapers, and Trash (Lecture No. 27)
The Maine Lumber Industry (Lecture No. 5)
The Making of the Constitution
The Making of the Federal Constitution (Lecture No. 3)
Manufacturing and the Tariff (Lecture No. 22)
The Manufacturing Frontier
The Mexican War
The Middle Class Traditionalists
The Monroe Doctrine and the Election of 1824 (Lecture no. 13)
The Negro Immigrant
The Negro in Africa and America
The New Deal at War
New England in the Life of the Nation
The New England Transportation System (Lecture No. 14)
The New Nationalism, 1815-1828
On the Air
On Stage
The Panic of 1837
The Passing of the Nineteenth Century
The Performance of the Economy - 19th Century (Texas 1963)
Personal Politics 1828-1837 (Lecture No. 17 )
The Petroleum Kingdom (Lecture No. 4)
A Piecemeal History of Bowdoin
Population: Birth and Death
Population: Eating and Aging (Lecture No. 2)
Population and Migration
Poverty and Relief
The Pre-War American Colleges (Lecture No. 24)
The Problem of Government and the Solution
The Professor in Politics
The Progressive Era - Philosophy and Achievements
Propaganda and Diplomacy During the World War
Proposed Roads to Reform - Government Ownership
The Quest for Peace
The Radical Labor Movement
The Raw Materials Frontiers: Petroleum
The Raw Material Frontiers: Petroleum II
Recipe for Responsibility (Presidential Address)
Reconstruction - First Phase
Reconstruction - Second Phase
Recontruction in Operation
The Reform System
Rehearsal for Conflict
Religion and Taxation: The Vermont Way
Religion and the New World
The Religious Counterattack (Lecture No. 21)
The Republican Dynasty
The Republican Structure
A Republican Subsitute for War
Revolution as Social Movement (Lecture No. 5)
Rhetoric and Rage Over the Division of Wealth in the 1890's (Antiquarian Address)
Rise of Labor Discontent
The Rise of Parties 1780-1800 (Lecture No. 6)
The Rise of Sport
The Robber Baron: A Split Personality
Roosevelt: Deficits and Debt
Roosevelt: The Depression
A Rooseveltian Rearrangement of Responsibility
The Scholar and the State
Secession and Peace (Lecture No. 11)
Secession
The Second Bank of the US (Lecture No. 1)
The Silver Screen
Some Cultural Responses to American Industrialism
The South Carolina Nullification Movement
The South: Frontier and Plantation
Southern Society (Lecture No. 8)
The Spanish American War
Spanish-Mexican Empire
The Steamship on the High Seas
The Struggle for Free Schools (Lecture No. 22)
The Supreme Court 1800-1825 (Lecture No. 12)
The Supreme Court and the People
The Thought of Business Men in the Gilded Age (Texas, 1963)
Trade, Investment and Diplomacy in China
Transforming the Industrial Revolution (Lecture No. 19)
The United States and the New Order
The Upper Valley - Hanover
Urban Growth (Lecture No. 17)
The Utilities Frontier
The War of 1812
The West and its Settlement (Lecture No. 3)
The West: The Lumberman's Frontier
The West: The Ranching Frontier
The West: Wheat and Corn
Western Problems and the Confederation
Whom Did the Robber Barons Rob
The Women's Revolt
The World Changes: Does the Teaching of History?
The [?] and the Work (Smith College American Association of Univeristy Professors Address)
Series contains minutes and legal reports of the American Civil Liberties Union (1974); minutes, correspondence, and other documents regarding Kirkland's role as advisor to the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation (1962-1964); and documents, including a delegates manual, from a period of Kirkland's time in the Phi Beta Kappa Senate (1962-1964).
American Civil Liberties Union, 1974
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1962
Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1963-1964
Phi Beta Kappa - Bulletin, 1962
Phi Beta Kappa - Senate, 1963
Phi Beta Kappa - Delegates Mannual, 1964
Phi Beta Kappa - Senate, 1964
Phi Beta Kappa - Senate, 1964
Series contains photographs and negatives used in Kirkland's book Men, Cities, and Transportation.
Photographs used in Men, Cities, and Transportation, 1840-1890, undated
Photographs used in Men, Cities, and Transportation, 1813-1900, undated
Photographs used in Men, Cities, and Transportation, [negatives]