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United States -- History -- 1933-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Records:

Alfred M. Landon collection

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 3
Overview

This collection of speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, audiovisual material, and miscellaneous memorabilia was collected by historian Donald R. McCoy as a result of his research for the biography Landon of Kansas.

Dates: 1927-1963, 1966, 1980, 1983

Alfred M. Landon oral interviews

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 819
Overview

Alfred Mossman Landon, 1887-1987, a prominent Kansas Republican, served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937 and ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States presidency in 1936. This collection includes audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with Governor Landon by Donald R. McCoy and Louis George Griffin from 1975-1976.

Dates: 1975 - 1976

Harry Hines Woodring papers

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 202
Abstract

The papers of Harry Hines Woodring span the years 1893 to 1967, with the bulk of the material falling within the years 1930 to 1940. The collection consists of genealogical records, personal and official correspondence, speeches, reports, photographs, newspaper clippings, and a variety of miscellaneous material.

Dates: 1887 - 1967

Personal papers of Donald R. McCoy

 Collection
Call Number: PP 124
Overview

Donald McCoy taught in the Department of History at the University of Kansas from 1957-1995. This collection contains correspondence, subject correspondence, reports, manuscripts, and research conducted by McCoy during his tenure at KU.

Dates: 1951 - 1995

Personal papers of Theodore A. Wilson

 Collection
Call Number: PP 187
Overview

Wilson has taught in the Department of History at the University of Kansas since 1966. This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, reference materials, and other materials related to Wilson's career and research interests.

Dates: 1966-2012 (bulk 1960s-1990s)

Transcripts and broadcast sound recordings of speeches and interviews by and about Alfred M. Landon

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS 205
Overview

These broadcast sound recordings were collected by the news staff of Wren Radio. Each recording was either produced or acquired by Wren because the subject of the recording is Alfred M. Landon, president of Wren Broadcasting Company and 1936 Republican presidential candidate.

Dates: 1936 - 1976

War comes to the U.S.: The First 30 Hours as Reported to the Time-Life-Fortune News Bureau from the U.S. and Abroad

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS C32
Overview This mimeograph copy is comprised of reports and dispatches from correspondents to Time-Life-Fortune News Bureau chief David Hulbard in New York during the first thirty hours following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The reports total 222 pages. In instances where relative military strengths, the extent of damage to Pearl Harbor, or military and naval strategy were reported, such information was deleted. Officials who made "not for attribution" statements had their names obliterated...
Dates: December 7, 1941