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    <title>Reinhold Niebuhr papers, 1907-1997 (bulk 1930-1990)</title>
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    <namePart>Niebuhr, Reinhold</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1892-1971</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, sermons, lectures, typescripts of books and articles, book reviews, bibliographies, subject files, biographical material, family papers, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Niebuhr's influence on twentieth-century theology, politics, and society; and to his efforts to apply religious and ethical standards to modern social and political problems including labor and race relations.  Documents his interest in the Delta Cooperative Farm Project, Hillhouse, Miss.; Committee on Economic and Racial Justice of the Socialist Party of Tennessee; U.S. National Committee for UNESCO; CARE Inc.; and other social agencies.  Also documents Niebuhr's association with the Evangelical and Reformed Church; delivery of the Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh (1939); and travels to Germany with the U.S. Commission on Cultural Affairs in Occupied Territories (1946) and other trips to Europe in the 1940s.</abstract>
  <abstract>Includes typescripts of three Niebuhr books: Man's Nature and His Communities: Essays on the Dynamics and Enigmas of Man's Personal and Social Existence (1965), Pious and Secular America (1958), and The Self and the Dramas of History (1955); and his book reviews in the New York Times, Saturday Review, and the New Republic.  Also includes papers of Ursula Niebuhr relating, in part, to her work with the Jerusalem Committee; manuscript of June Bingham's biography of Reinhold Niebuhr, Courage to Change (1961); and papers relating to Richard Wightman Fox's Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography (1985).</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include David H.K. Amiran, Ruth Amiran, W.H. Auden, John Barnes, Jacques Barzun, Tony Benn, John C. Bennett, Isaiah Berlin, Jonathan B. Bingham, June Bingham, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jimmy Carter, Tom C. Clark, Paul D. Clasper, Henry Sloane Coffin, James Bryant Conant, Isobel Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Sherwood Eddy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, T.S. Eliot, Felix Frankfurter, Sam H. Franklin, J. King Gordon, Ruth Anderson Gordon, Ronald O. Hall, Will Herberg, Hubert H. Humphrey, Robert Maynard Hutchins, George F. Kennan, Teddy Kollek, Franklin H. Littell, Archibald MacLeish, Norman Mailer, Martin E. Marty, George S. McGovern, Margaret Mead, Hans J. Morgenthau, Daniel P. Moynihan, H. Richard Niebuhr, Alan Paton, James A. Pike, Samuel D. Press, D.B. Robertson, Oliver W. Sacks, William Scarlett, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1888-1965), Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), Margaret Stansgate, Adlai E. Stevenson, Ronald H. Stone, Paul Tillich, Henry P. Van Dusen, Geraldine Van Husen, Hugh Van Husen, Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft, and E.L. Woodward.  Organizational correspondents include Americans for Democratic Action, Commission on the Freedom of the Press, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., Union for Democratic Action, and World Council of Churches.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Most photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Theologian, philosopher, and author.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Amiran, David H. K</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1910-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Amiran, Ruth</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barnes, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-1992</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Barzun, Jacques</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1907-2012</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Benn, Tony</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1925-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Bennett, John C. (John Coleman)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1995</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Berlin, Isaiah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-1997</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bingham, Jonathan B</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bingham, June</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1919-2007</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bonhoeffer, Dietrich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carter, Jimmy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1924-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clark, Tom C. (Tom Campbell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1977</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clasper, Paul D</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Coffin, Henry Sloane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1954</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Conant, James Bryant</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1978</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cripps, Isobel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1979</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Cripps, Richard Stafford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1952</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eddy, Sherwood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
    </name>
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      <namePart>Fox, Richard Wightman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1945-</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Frankfurter, Felix</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Franklin, Sam H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gordon, J. King</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gordon, Ruth Anderson</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hall, Ronald O. (Ronald Owen)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Herberg, Will</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1911-1978</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hutchins, Robert Maynard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1977</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kennan, George F. (George Frost)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-2005</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kollek, Teddy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1911-2007</namePart>
    </name>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-2009</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>MacLeish, Archibald</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1892-1982</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mailer, Norman</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Marty, Martin E</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1928-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McGovern, George S. (George Stanley)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1922-2012</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mead, Margaret</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1901-1978</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1980</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1927-2003</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Niebuhr, H. Richard (Helmut Richard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1962</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Paton, Alan</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pike, James A. (James Albert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1913-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Press, Samuel D</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robertson, D. B</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sacks, Oliver W</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Scarlett, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-2007</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stansgate, Margaret</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1991</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1965</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stone, Ronald H</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tillich, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1886-1965</namePart>
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      <namePart>Van Dusen, Henry P. (Henry Pitney)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1975</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Van Husen, Geraldine</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Van Husen, Hugh</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-1985</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1971</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Niebuhr family</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
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      <namePart>Commission on Cultural Affairs in Occupied Territories.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Americans for Democratic Action</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>CARE Inc.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Commission on Freedom of the Press</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Evangelical and Reformed Church.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Jerusalem Committee.</namePart>
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      <namePart>National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Socialist Party (Tenn.).</namePart>
      <namePart>Committee on Economic and Racial Justice.</namePart>
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      <namePart>U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Union for Democratic Action</namePart>
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      <namePart>University of Edinburgh.</namePart>
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      <namePart>World Council of Churches</namePart>
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      <namePart>Niebuhr, Reinhold,</namePart>
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