Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation
Dexter Perkins papers
Perkins, Dexter, 1889-1984
D.73
/repositories/2/resources/1159
12 box(es)
1905-1975
English
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Biographical / Historical note
Dexter Perkins was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard in 1909 and earned his doctorate in philosophy there in 1914. He joined the Rochester Faculty that year as an assistant professor of history. He advanced to full professor in 1925, when he became head of the history department.
Dr. Perkins was an official United States historian at the 1945 San Francisco Security Conference that preceded the organization of the United Nations. Later that year, he was the first to teach a new course on American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. He also taught at Uppsala University in Sweden and was instrumental in creating the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Austria, presiding over annual gatherings from 1950-1961. During his long association with the American Historical Association he served as both president and secretary.
Dr. Perkins was the author of 17 books, many of them on the formation and conduct of America foreign policy. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading expert on the Monroe Doctrine, about which he wrote several volumes. After his retirement in 1954, he became the first John L. Senior Professor of American Civilization at Cornell University and held that chair until 1959. He also continued to write and lecture at institutions in this country and abroad. His memoirs, "Yield of the Years," appeared in 1969.
He died in May, 1984 at the Brightonian Convalescent Care Center in Rochester. He was 94 years old.
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence (personal and about book and articles published); outline of courses taught at the University of Rochester; subjects of interests; and some of his published articles and speeches.
Access
The Dexter Perkins Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The material was received from the President's office on July 9, 1971. Correspondence received from Dr. Perkins on October 19, 1973.
Use
In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date], Dexter Perkins Papers, D.73, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
United Nations Conference on International Organization
World War (1914-1918)
Europe
Historians
Correspondence
Lectures
Manuscripts
Perkins, Dexter, 1889-1984
University of Rochester -- Faculty
Series I: Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/228904Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/228917October 1905-July 192011-19Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/228937August 1920-195521-9Series II: Book correspondence and revisions/repositories/2/archival_objects/228906American attitude towards war (Yale Review, Winter, 1949)/repositories/2/archival_objects/22894731Life of James Monroe/repositories/2/archival_objects/22894832Book for Harvard Press/repositories/2/archival_objects/22894933The New Deal End World War II book/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895034Hands off - revisions/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895135-6Charles Evans Hughes book/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895337Series III: Lectures, lecture notes, and course notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/228907Benjamin Franklin: philosopher and public servant/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895541Declaration of Independence: American idealism/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895642The Constitution: American imperialism/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895743George Washington: soldier and statesman/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895844Harry S. Truman: the growth of a politician/repositories/2/archival_objects/22895945Woodrow Wilson: idealist/repositories/2/archival_objects/22896046Pearl Harbor/repositories/2/archival_objects/22896147Theodore Roosevelt: pragmatist/repositories/2/archival_objects/22896248Note on my family/repositories/2/archival_objects/22896349Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary/repositories/2/archival_objects/2289641943410Lectures/repositories/2/archival_objects/2289651951-1953411San Francisco conference/repositories/2/archival_objects/228966412William H. Seward, Secretary of State Speech at Union College celebration/repositories/2/archival_objects/228967413American approach to foreign policy, Sweden/repositories/2/archival_objects/228968414Lectures/repositories/2/archival_objects/228969415-16Lecture notes: miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/228971417-18Lectures: History 132/repositories/2/archival_objects/22897451Lectures: History 137-8 (1789-1815)/repositories/2/archival_objects/22897552Lectures: History 137-8 (1815-1848)/repositories/2/archival_objects/22897653Lectures: History 137-8 (1848-1865)/repositories/2/archival_objects/22897754Lectures: History 137-8 (1865-1898)/repositories/2/archival_objects/22897855Lectures: History 137-8 (1898-1921)/repositories/2/archival_objects/22897956Lectures: History 137-8 (1933- )/repositories/2/archival_objects/22898057Lectures: History I/repositories/2/archival_objects/22898158History III/repositories/2/archival_objects/22898259History IV: through the Spanish American War/repositories/2/archival_objects/228983510History IV: senior thesis on the Spanish American War/repositories/2/archival_objects/228984511Cornell course/repositories/2/archival_objects/228985Spring 1954512Series IV: Subjects/repositories/2/archival_objects/228909American expansionism/repositories/2/archival_objects/22898661American nationality and American ideals/repositories/2/archival_objects/22898762American reparation policy/repositories/2/archival_objects/22898863Agriculture/repositories/2/archival_objects/228989Pamphlets64Articles of Confederation and Constitution/repositories/2/archival_objects/22899065American Revolution: military/repositories/2/archival_objects/22899166Some aspects of the revolution social forces/repositories/2/archival_objects/22899267Blaine, James G./repositories/2/archival_objects/22899368British politics and the American Revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/22899469Can we learn from experience, 1918-194?/repositories/2/archival_objects/228995610Central America/repositories/2/archival_objects/228996611Civil War: political aspects, military and naval aspects/repositories/2/archival_objects/228997612Cleveland and Harrison: financial questions/repositories/2/archival_objects/228998613Colonial conflict on the eve of the revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/228999614Colonial economic organization and social life/repositories/2/archival_objects/229000615Coolidge/repositories/2/archival_objects/229001616Cuba/repositories/2/archival_objects/229002617Defense, 1952/repositories/2/archival_objects/229003618Depression of the 1870's, two depressions, 1873 and 1929/repositories/2/archival_objects/229004619Diplomacy to 1800: introductory lectures on diplomacy/repositories/2/archival_objects/229005620Diplomacy to 1800: diplomacy of American Revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/229006621, 23Diplomacy to 1800: Constitution and diplomacy, principle of isolation/repositories/2/archival_objects/229007622Diplomacy to 1800: Constitution and diplomacy, rupture with France/repositories/2/archival_objects/229009624Diplomacy to 1800: French alliance and peace negotiations/repositories/2/archival_objects/229010625Diplomacy to 1800: foreign policy of the Confederacy/repositories/2/archival_objects/229011626Diplomacy to 1800: Washington diplomacy/repositories/2/archival_objects/229012627Diplomacy 1800-1822: Madison and the War of 1812/repositories/2/archival_objects/229013628Diplomacy 1823-1860: diplomacy of the Mexican War/repositories/2/archival_objects/229014629Diplomacy 1823-1860: Anglo-American relations, 1837-1846/repositories/2/archival_objects/229015630Diplomacy 1823-1860: Texas/repositories/2/archival_objects/229016631Diplomacy 1823-1860: diplomacy of Jefferson's second administration, Louisiana Purchase/repositories/2/archival_objects/229017632Diplomacy 1860-1876/repositories/2/archival_objects/229018633Diplomacy 1860-1876: diplomacy of the Civil War/repositories/2/archival_objects/229019634Diplomacy of WWI/repositories/2/archival_objects/229020635Diplomacy in the 1920s/repositories/2/archival_objects/229021636Diplomacy of the Hoover administration/repositories/2/archival_objects/229022637Diplomacy 1932-1950/repositories/2/archival_objects/229023638Diplomacy since 1945/repositories/2/archival_objects/229024639Disarmament: war debts and reparations/repositories/2/archival_objects/229025640Dred Scott Case: Bleeding Kansas War/repositories/2/archival_objects/22902671Economic development to 1860/repositories/2/archival_objects/22902772Eighteenth century rationalism: Benjamin Franklin/repositories/2/archival_objects/22902873Economic development, 1865-1880: business boom after Civil War/repositories/2/archival_objects/22902974Election of 1860/repositories/2/archival_objects/22903075Evolution of the courts/repositories/2/archival_objects/22903176Financing the revolution: supply of gunpowder in 1776/repositories/2/archival_objects/22903277The fine arts/repositories/2/archival_objects/22903378Grant Hayes and Garfield/repositories/2/archival_objects/22903479Haiti/repositories/2/archival_objects/229035710Holy alliance/repositories/2/archival_objects/229036711Hoons/repositories/2/archival_objects/229037712Immigration in the United States: labor and immigration, capitalism and immigration/repositories/2/archival_objects/229038713Imperialism/repositories/2/archival_objects/229039714Internal problems in Monroe's administration/repositories/2/archival_objects/229040715Introductory lecture through voyages of discovery and Christopher Columbus/repositories/2/archival_objects/229041716Inventions/repositories/2/archival_objects/229042717Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian period/repositories/2/archival_objects/229043718Thomas Jefferson/repositories/2/archival_objects/229044719Labor to 1860/repositories/2/archival_objects/229045720Labor since 1860: social radicalism/repositories/2/archival_objects/229046721Latin American and World War I/repositories/2/archival_objects/229047722Abraham Lincoln: election of 1860/repositories/2/archival_objects/229048723Loyalist side of the revolution, rebel side of the revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/229049724Manufactures and shipping/repositories/2/archival_objects/229050725Medicine before 1860/repositories/2/archival_objects/229051726Mexico/repositories/2/archival_objects/229052727Monroe doctrine/repositories/2/archival_objects/229053728Missouri compromise/repositories/2/archival_objects/229054729Money question/repositories/2/archival_objects/229055730The Negro/repositories/2/archival_objects/22905681Nuclear weapon/repositories/2/archival_objects/22905782Orient in the 1920's/repositories/2/archival_objects/22905883Pamphlets on Latin America and Central America/repositories/2/archival_objects/22905984Pamphlets on the Far East/repositories/2/archival_objects/22906085Pan-Americanism/repositories/2/archival_objects/22906186Peace Conference and the League of Nations/repositories/2/archival_objects/22906287Peace movement, Woman's movement/repositories/2/archival_objects/22906388Personalities from 1815-1830: Monroe, Adams, Clay, Calhoun, Webster/repositories/2/archival_objects/22906489Political and social progress, Age of reform, National Legislator/repositories/2/archival_objects/229065810Population: the Western frontier/repositories/2/archival_objects/229066811Positive work of the revolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/229067812Puerto Rico and Cuba/repositories/2/archival_objects/229068813Relations with France and Spain/repositories/2/archival_objects/229069814Rise of the new capitalism/repositories/2/archival_objects/229070815Samoa, Hawaii, and Philippines/repositories/2/archival_objects/229071816Science in America doctrine of evolution/repositories/2/archival_objects/229072817Roosevelt, Theodore/repositories/2/archival_objects/229073818Roosevelt, Theodore: foreign policy of Latin America and Morocco/repositories/2/archival_objects/229074819Roosevelt and the Far East/repositories/2/archival_objects/229075820Roosevelt: biography and domestic policy/repositories/2/archival_objects/229076821Santo Domingo/repositories/2/archival_objects/229077822Slavery question: United States/repositories/2/archival_objects/2290781837-1850823Spain, France, and England in America: the Colonies and colonial conflict/repositories/2/archival_objects/229079824South and Reconstruction results of the Civil War/repositories/2/archival_objects/229080825State department speaks/repositories/2/archival_objects/229081826T.R. Tap/repositories/2/archival_objects/229082827U.S. policy towards China and Japan/repositories/2/archival_objects/229083828Venezuela/repositories/2/archival_objects/229084829Washington, George/repositories/2/archival_objects/229085830West in the Revolutionary period/repositories/2/archival_objects/229086831Woodrow Wilson: biography and bibliography/repositories/2/archival_objects/229087832Wilson and the war/repositories/2/archival_objects/229088833Series V: Personal records/repositories/2/archival_objects/228912Loubat prizes/repositories/2/archival_objects/22908991Photograph of Dexter Perkins/repositories/2/archival_objects/229090191892Cloth insignia, postcards/repositories/2/archival_objects/2290911910's93Scope and ContentsCloth insignia: 2 items, 3 postcards - European scenes
Schedule of trip to England/repositories/2/archival_objects/229092May-June 194894San Francisco conference/repositories/2/archival_objects/229093April-May 194595Retirement/repositories/2/archival_objects/229094April 195496Scope and ContentsNewspaper clippings, faculty meeting
Planned Parenthood/repositories/2/archival_objects/22909597-9"The Professor" manuscript poem by Helen A. Cramer/repositories/2/archival_objects/229098910Miscellaneous notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/229099911-12Series VI: Publications/repositories/2/archival_objects/228913The Constitution and the American spirit/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291011937101The love of knowledge, The guide of life/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291021937102Bulletin of the Robert Morris Associates/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291031939103Fundamental principles of American foreign policy/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291041941104The State department speaks/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291051944105Woodrow Wilson: an interpretation/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291061946106Geographical influence: American history/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291071947107Salzburg understanding: 1947-1953/repositories/2/archival_objects/229108108The memoirs of Cordell Hull/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291091949109PMULA/repositories/2/archival_objects/22911019501010Headline series: the story of US foreign policy/repositories/2/archival_objects/22911119511011Yale review/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291121951111Reprint from the Diplomats (1919-1939)/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291131953112-4The Perkins lectures/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291161956115American way/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291171957116We shall gladly teach/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291181957121The satisfactions of a teacher of history/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291191960122Wells express/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291201960123The Monroe doctrine /repositories/2/archival_objects/2291211963124Scope and ContentsIncludes 2 book reviews
Newspaper articles/repositories/2/archival_objects/229122125Official program of the Steuben Society/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291231964126Review of politics/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291241969127American Academy of Arts & Sciences records/repositories/2/archival_objects/2291251973-1974128