Eric Frederick Goldman papers, 1886-1988 (bulk 1940-1970).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 27,600 items; 91 containers plus 13 oversize; 43 linear feetSubject(s): - Aaron, Hank, 1934- -- Correspondence
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 -- Correspondence
- Bacall, Lauren, 1924- -- Correspondence
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 -- Correspondence
- Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 -- Correspondence
- Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921
- Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921 -- Correspondence
- Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008 -- Correspondence
- Busby, Horace W. -- Correspondence
- Carpenter, Liz -- Correspondence
- Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978 -- Correspondence
- Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998 -- Correspondence
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 -- Correspondence
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Correspondence
- Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006 -- Correspondence
- Godfrey, Arthur, 1903-1983 -- Correspondence
- Goldman, Harry Eric -- Correspondence
- Greenfield, Kent Roberts, 1893-1967 -- Correspondence
- Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 -- Correspondence
- Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970 -- Correspondence
- Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986
- Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-2007 -- Correspondence
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Correspondence
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 -- Correspondence
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 -- Correspondence
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 -- Correspondence
- Pilpel, Harriet F. -- Correspondence
- Powell, Adam Clayton, 1908-1972 -- Correspondence
- Reedy, George E., 1917-1999 -- Correspondence
- Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991 -- Correspondence
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Correspondence
- Rossiter, Clinton, 1917-1970 -- Correspondence
- Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994 -- Correspondence
- Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 -- Correspondence
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 -- Correspondence
- Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003 -- Correspondence
- Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Correspondence
- Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim -- Correspondence
- Valenti, Jack -- Correspondence
- Walker, Zachariah, -1911
- Wing, Willis Kingsley, 1899-1985 -- Correspondence
- Society of American Historians
- Open mind (Television program)
- Arts
- Civil rights
- Civil service -- Study and teaching (Internship)
- Emigration and immigration
- International cooperation
- Lynching -- Pennsylvania -- Coatesville
- Poverty
- Presidential Scholars
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- United States -- Economic policy
- United States -- Intellectual life
- United States -- History -- 1865-1921
- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- United States -- Social policy
- White House Fellows
- Authors
- Educators
- Historians
Open to research.
Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, writings, speeches, transcripts, reports, research materials, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers pertaining primarily to Goldman's career as author, historian, and special consultant to President Lyndon B. Johnson. Subjects include Goldman's role as intermediary between the president and the intellectual community include the arts, domestic affairs, immigration, international cooperation, poverty, Vietnam, and programs for Presidential Scholars, White House Fellows, and summer interns. Includes material pertaining to Goldman's work as moderator of the television program, Open Mind, (1959-1967) and as president of the Society of American Historians (1962-1969) and to Jacob K. Javits's senatorial campaign (1962). Also includes materials from Goldman's research and writings on Charles J. Bonaparte, the civil rights movement, reform in America, and post-World War II American history. Research material for the Bonaparte biography includes letters signed by Benjamin Harrison, Bonaparte, and Theodore Roosevelt; research material for an unpublished book on the lynching of Zachariah Walker in Coatesville, Pa., in 1911 includes correspondence, notes, newspaper articles, and transcripts of court cases. Also included are family papers containing letters between Goldman and his father, Harry Eric Goldman.
Correspondents include Hank Aaron, Dean Acheson, Lauren Bacall, Charles Austin Beard, Hugo LaFayette Black, William F. Buckley, Horace W. Busby, Liz Carpenter, Bruce Catton, Henry Steele Commager, Merle Eugene Curti, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Godfrey, Kent Roberts Greenfield, Richard Hofstadter, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Lippmann, Robert Lowell, Margaret Mead, Harriet F. Pilpel, Adam Clayton Powell, George E. Reedy, Roger Revelle, Clinton Rossiter, Dean Rusk, Upton Sinclair, Adlai E. Stevenson, Strom Thurmond, Harry S. Truman, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Jack Valenti, and Willis Kingsley Wing.
Audiotapes and film transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Microfilm transferred to Library of Congress Serial and Government Publications Division.
Some photographs, posters, print, and sketch transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Sheet music transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.
Historian, educator, and author.
Collection material in English.
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