Klaus J. Hansen papers, 1952-2011

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hansen, Klaus J.
Title
Klaus J. Hansen papers
Dates
1952-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
16 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1532
Summary
The Klaus J. Hansen papers (1952-2011) includes articles, book manuscripts, a doctoral dissertation, and reviews written by Hansen mostly pertaining to the history of the LDS Church and the political ramifications of the Council of Fifty in LDS history. Included are correspondence between Hansen and editors and publishers concerning the publication of his work. Also included are employment materials, class work at Wayne State University, and articles written by others. In addition, the papers include evaluations of manuscripts written by others and correspondence concerning these evaluations which Hansen wrote for various editors and publishers. LDS historian and author. Currently he is professor of history at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English, German

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Klaus J. Hansen, born November 29, 1931 in Kiel, Germany, began his college studies at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he obtained both a B.A. in 1957 and an M.A. in 1959. The first few articles in the collection, particularly "Notes Towards a Definition of the Council of Fifty" (written with Alfred Bush), were written while Hansen attended BYU, but he wrote the bulk of his early manuscripts while pursuing his doctoral degree at Wayne State University (which he finished in 1963). Hansen's doctoral dissertation, The Kingdom of God in Mormon Thought and Practice, 1830-1896, is in the collection and stands as a precursor to his first book, Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History, published in 1966. Meanwhile, in December 1959 Hansen married Joan Patricia Dunn, and four children followed. After obtaining his Ph.D., Hansen taught history at Eastern Michigan University (1963); Ohio State University (1963-65); Utah State University (assistant professor of history, 1965-1968); and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (associate professor, 1968-1976; professor of history, 1976-). It was while Hansen taught at Utah State University that Quest for Empire was published. Later, at Queen's University, Hansen published a second book, Mormonism and American Culture (not included in the collection). A third book, Mormonism and the American Experience, followed in 1981. While working on his books, Hansen continued to write articles on Mormonism, American Millennialism, and Antebellum America; and he reviewed other writers' books and articles on similar subjects.

His interests in writing and teaching lead Hansen to participate in several organizations, including the American Historical Association, the Western History Association, and the Utah State Historical Society. He was awarded fellowships from Yale University (1974-1975) and the Canada Council (1974-1975), and won an Award of Merit from the American Association for

State and Local History and the Mormon History Association's Book Award for Quest for Empire. The collection was donated by Hansen in August 1995 while attending the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City, continuing his engagement to American history and Mormon history in particular.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Klaus J. Hansen papers (1952-2011) include articles, book manuscripts, and reviews written by Hansen. Most of the books, articles and reviews pertain to the history of the LDS Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or LDS) and Hansen's particular specialty in this field, the political ramifications of the Council of Fifty in LDS History. Mixed with these writings are large amounts of correspondence between Hansen and editors and publishers concerning the publication of materials. Where possible, publishers of respective articles and reviews, with whom Hansen corresponded, have been noted in the folder descriptions of the inventory. Smaller portions of the collection include employment materials (correspondence, fellowships, grants, dean's reports, and other documents), class work at Wayne State University, and articles by other historians. Another section contains manuscript evaluations and correspondence concerning these evaluations which Hansen wrote for various editors and publishers. This collection also contains correspondence, articles drafts, essays, book contracts, historical society programs, letters of recommendation, and chapter drafts from books. These were the office files that Hansen had accumulated over the years when he was an assistant professor at Utah State (1965-1968) and Queen's University (1968-). In addition to providing a glimpse into the day-to-day life of a historian, the files also show the background work that goes into the publishing of a book and preparing for a conference.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-11 were donated in 1995 (5.25 linear feet).

Boxes 12-21 were donated in 2000 (4.75 linear feet).

Processing Note

Processed by Tad Davies in 1995.

Addenda processed by Luke Kelly in 2000 and by Braxton Utley in 2016.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

ArticlesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
"Will There Be Another Hitler in Germany Within the Near Future?"
 1952
1 2
"Notes Towards a Definition of the Council of Fifty"
This paper was written by Klaus Hansen and Alfred Bush.
1952
1 3
"Peter Canisius's Concept of Usury: A Re-examination"
 1961
1 4-6
"The Making of King Strang: A Re-examination"
Published in Michigan History.
1962
1 7-9
"Thoreau's View of the Past as Revealed in Walden
1962
1 10-14
"Petrus Canisius's Stand on Usury: An Example of Jesuit Tactics in the German Counter Reformation"
Published in Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte.
1964
1 15-16
"Reflections on the Writing of Mormon History"
These folders include the 1966 Dialogue reprint of a speech originally delivered at the 1965 Mormon Historians' Conference.
1965
1 17-19
"The Metamorphosis of the Kingdom of God: Notes Toward a Reinterpretation of Mormon History"
Published in Dialogue.
1966
2 1
"Joseph Smith and the Political Kingdom of God"
Published in The American West.
1968
2 2-3
"Mormonism and American Culture: Some Tentative Hypotheses"
Published in The Restoration Movement: Essays in Mormon History.
1971-1972
2 4-5
"The Millennium, the West, and Race in the Antebellum American Mind"
Published in The Western Historical Quarterly.
1972
2 6
"Miscegenation, the Proslavery Rationale, and the Coming of the Civil War"
 1972
2 7-14
Mormon Sexuality Article for Dialogue
These folders contain correspondence and several drafts under different titles.
1974-1976
2 15-16
"The Mormon Errand Into the Wilderness"
Paper delivered at the "Westward Movement Conference" of the Canadian Association for American Studies. The folder also includes information on the conference and the association.
1979
2 17
"Missouri Mormonism: A Culture Out of Phase"
Paper delivered at the Western History Association's conference in Kansas City.
1980
2 18
"Jan Shipps and the Mormon Tradition"
Published in Journal of Mormon History.
1984
3 1
"Antebellum American Rationalizations of Death and Sex"
3 2
"The Changing Fortunes of Tocqueville's Domocracy in America
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
3 3-6
"The Moral Dimension: Determinism and Freedom of Choice in American Literature"
3 7
"The Mormons as Puritan Revolutionaries"
3 8
"The Mormon Negotiations with the Republic of Texas for the Establishment of a Mormon State in the Rio Grande Region, 1844"
3 9
"The Pursuit of the Millennium in Antebellum America"
3 10
"Religion and the Rise of Capitalism: America Style"
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
3 11
Untitled Article

ManuscriptsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 12-24
The Kingdom of God in Mormon Thought and Practice, 1830-1896
Written as doctoral dissertation at Wayne State University.
1963
4
Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Folders 4-7 contain galley proofs for the Michigan State University Press edition. Folders 8-18 contain the final manuscript version of the book. Folders 19-20 contain correspondence with the University of Nebraska Press pertaining to the 1974 paperback edition of the book and a new preface for that edition.
1966
5
Mormonism and the American Experience
Folders 1-13 contain the final manuscript version of the book, while folders 14-24 contain drafts of various chapters.
1981

Book ReviewsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
6 1-2
Reviews Written at Wayne State University
Written for "History 898.3" and History 898.4."
1960-1961
6 3
Review of The Diary of James J. Strang, ed. by Mark A. Strang
Published in Brigham Young University Studies.
1962
6 4
Review of Russian Doctor in Paradise, by Amaretta Ludwick
Published in Michigan History.
1962
6 5
Review of On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout, ed. by Juanita Brooks
Published in The Journal of American History.
1964
6 6
Review of Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi, by Robert Bruce Flander
Published in Dialogue.
1966
6 7
Review of Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God and Thunder, by Harold Schindler
Published in The Utah State Historical Society.
1967
6 8
Abstracts of Archivmitteilungen 1960, 1961
Published by American Bibliographical Center and Clio Press.
1967
6 9
Review of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century, by James B. Allen and Richard O. Cowan
 1969
6 10-11
Review of Lion of the Lord, by Stanley Hirshson
 1970
6 12
Review of Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier, by Peter N. Carroll
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1970
6 13
Review of The "Americanization" of Utah for Statehood, by Gustave O. Larsen
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1971
6 14
Review of Dissent: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. ed. by Alfred F. Young
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1971
6 15
Review of Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought, by David Hackett Fischer; and The Nature of History, by Arthur Marwick
 1971
6 16
Review of The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930, by Ernest R. Sandeen
Published in Church History.
1971
6 17
Review of The King Strang Story: A Vindication of James J. Strang, the Beaver Island King, by Doyle C. Fitzpatrick
Published in Dialogue.
1971
6 18
Review of The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914, by George Fredrickson; and Racial Thought in America: From the Puritans to Abraham Lincoln, by Louis Ruchames
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1972
6 19
Review of A Religious History of the American People, by Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1972
6 20
Review of Oneida Community, the Breakup, 1876-1881, by Constance Noyes Robertson
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1974
6 21
Review of In His Image, But...: Racism in Southern Religion, 1780-1910, by H. Shelton Smith
Published in The American Historical Review.
1974
6 22
Review of The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture, by Christopher Lasch
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1974
6 23
Review of Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith, by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill
Published in BYU Centennial.
1976
6 24-26
Review of The Story of the Latter-day Saints, by James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard
Published in Utah Historical Review.
1977
7 1
Review of We Must March My Darling, by Diana Trilling Longmans
Published in The Whig-Standard.
1977
7 2
Review of A Time To Be Human, by John Howard Griffin; and American Hunger, by Richard Wright
Published in The Whig-Standard.
1977
7 3
Review of The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925, by Herbert Gutman
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1978
7 4
Review of The Urban Idea in Colonial America, by Sylvia Doughty Fries
Published in Urban History Review.
1979
7 5
Review of Utah: A History, by Charles S. Peterson
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1980
7 6
Review of Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints, by Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton
Published in The Journal of American History.
1980
7 7
Review of Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Century, by Ray Billington
Published in Journal of American History.
1981
7 8
Review of Witness to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth Century Response, by Lee Clark Mitchell
Published in Western Historical Quarterly.
1982
7 9
Review of Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer, by Stanley B. Kimball
Published in JAAR.
1982
7 10
Review of J. Reuben Clark: The Public Years, by Frank W. Fox
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1982
7 11
Review of Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850, by Anne C. Rose
Published in Canadian Journal of History.
1983
7 12
Review of An American Experience of God. The Spirituality of Isaac Hecker, by John Farina
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1984
7 13
Review of The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses, by Heather and Gary Botting
Published in The Whig-Standard.
1984
7 14
Review of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith: Prophet's Wife, "Elect Lady," Polygamy's Foe, 1804-1879, by Linda Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
Published in The Journal of American History.
1985
7 15
Review of J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years, by D. Michael Quinn
Published in The American Historical Review.
1985
7 16
Review of After 150 Years: Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective, ed. by Thomas G. Alexander and Jessie L. Embry
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1985
7 17
Review of Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier, by Newell G. Bringhust
Published in The American Historical Review.
1987
7 18
Review of Brigham Young: American Moses, by Leonard Arrington
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1988
7 19
Review of Political Deliverance: the Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Published in The American Historical Review.
7 20-21
Review of New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington, ed. by Davis Bitton and Maureen Ursenback Beecher
Published in Sunstone.
1989
7 22
Review of The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism and Social Inequality, by George M. Fredrickson
Published in Queen's Quarterly.
1989
7 23
Review of Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy: A Crisis Theology, by O. Kendall White, Jr.
Published in Church History.
1989
7 24
Review of Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846, by Kenneth H. Winn
Published in The American Historical Review.
1989
7 25-26
Review of Mormons and Their Historians, by Davis Bitton and Leonard J. Arrington
Published in Pacific Historical Review.
1990
7 27
Review of Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, by Michael Quinn
Published in Church History.
1990
7 28
Review of Trials of Discipleship: The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon, by James B. Allen
Published in Church History.
1990
7 29
Review of Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture 1800-1914, ed. Justin Wintle
7 30
Review of The Great Republic. A History of the American People, by Bailyn, Davis, Donald, Thomas, Wiebe, and Wood
7 31
Review of Growing Old in America, by David Hackett Fischer
7 32
Review of The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism 1800-1930, by Ernest R. Sandeen
7 33
Miscellaneous Correspondence Concerning Reviews
 1969-1992

Reference Books and Wayne State MaterialReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
8 1
Definitions for American Heritage Dictionary
1967-1970
8 2-5
Articles for Encyclopedia of Religion
1984
8 6
Article for Encyclopedia of Southern History
1976
8 7-9
Rand McNally and Company
This folder contains correspondence concerning a book on American culture.
1969-1973
8 10
Wayne State, Ph.D. Program
 1962-1964
8 11
Wayne State, History 573
 1960
8 12
Wayne State, History, 574
 1960
8 13
Wayne State, History 504
 1961
8 14
Wayne State, History 898.3
 1961
8 15
Wayne State, History 898.4
 1961
8 16
Wayne State, English 672
 1961
8 17-19
Wayne State, American Literature
 1961
8 20-21
Wayne State Teaching
 1961-1964
8 22
Wayne State Teaching, Seminar 201
 1967

Employment Correspondence, Contracts, Grants and FellowshipsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
9 1
Ohio State University Correspondence
 1963
9 2-3
Employment Correspondence
 1962-1967
9 4
Utah State University Contract
 1967
9 5-7
Queen's University, Salary Statistics and Merit Awards
 1974-1994
9 8-9
Queen's University, Annual Report to the Dean
 1975-1993
9 10
Utah State University, Fellowship Application
 1968
9 11-16
Queen's University, Fellowships, Grants, Research Awards, and Leave
Awards and fellowships include those offered by Queen's University and the LDS Historical Society while teaching at Queen's.
1974-1985

Articles in German and Articles by Other WritersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
10 1
"Die Anfaenge des Amerikanischen Geschichtsbewusstseins" ("The Beginning of American Historical Consciousness"), by Peter Meinhold, trans. by Klaus Hansen
Published in Dialogue.
1967
10 2-7
"Auf der Suche nach der neuen Welt: Gutergemeinschaftsexperimente in Nordamerida"
Published in Alles gehort allen. Hansen's early drafts included in folders are titled "Guetergemeinschaft und Kapitalismus im ersten Industriezeitalters Nordamerikas" and "Neue Fassung" respectively.
1984
10 8
German Material: Correspondence and Publications
 1982-1983
10 9-11
"The Dynamics of 'Wasp Culture': From Ethnic Cohesion to the 'Organization Man,'" by Gregory Singleton
This folder includes correspondence and comments by Hansen.
1973
10 12
"The Provincial British Abolitionists, 1833-1861," by C. Duncan Rice
 1973
10 13
1974 Southern Historical Convention
This folder includes comments delivered by Hansen about papers by Jack Madex and William Henry Longton.
1973-1974
10 14
"Slavery and the Millennium: The Eschatology of Southern Calvinists, 1840-1970," by Jack Madex
 1974
10 15
"Process and Development in Southern Science and Society," by William Henry Longton
 1974
11
Manuscript Evaluations
Evaluations made by Hansen of various manuscripts as solicited by publishers and editors.
1973-1994

Office and General CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Office correspondence refers to letters concerning academic affairs. General correspondence concerns letters of personal and financial nature.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
12 1-4
Office Correspondence
 1962-1970
12 5-6
General Correspondence
 1962-1983
12 7
Article and Book Correspondence
 1962-1996
12 8
Publication Projects Correspondence
 1964-1994
12 9
Wayne State Correspondence
 1971
12 10
Nelson-Hall Publishers Correspondence
 1973-1975
13 1
Leonard J. Arrington
 1964-1999
13 2
Fawn Brodie
 1967-1973
13 3
Alfred Bush
 1963-1967
13 4
Larry Foster
 1976-1995
13 5
Carmen Hardy
 1964-1971
13 6
Irene Leland
 1976-1977
13 7
Gordon Pollock
 1993
13 8
Douglas Tobler
 1977
13 9-11
Miscellaneous
 1964-1999
13 12
Miscellaneous Items

Academic Affairs and ResearchReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
14 1
Utah State University, Assistant Professorship
 1965-1967
14 2
"A Study of Millenarial History in the United States" Grant Proposal and Correspondence
 1966-1968
14 3
Letters of Recommendation for Students
 1968-1971
14 4
Tentative Research papers
 1969
14 5
Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale
 1974-1975
14 6
Mormon Controversies, Articles
 1990-1994
14 7
Signature Book Projects
 1993
14 8
Davis Bitton, Assorted Articles
14 9
Marriott Library Research
14 10
Morrisite Notes
14 11
Miscellaneous
 1977-1995

MonographsReturn to Top

These files contain book contracts, correspondence, drafts, and reviews related to the monographs.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
15 1-5
Quest for Empire
1959-1977
15 6-9
Mormonism and the American Experience
 1975-1983
15 10-11
Mormonism and Race, Contract and Correspondence
 1992-1998
15 12
Mormonism, Sexuality, and American Culture, Drafts

Articles and EssaysReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
16 1
"Friedrich Meinecke 'Die Entstehung des Historimus'"
 1964
16 2
"Toward the Kingdom of God"
 1966
16 3
"Mormon Sexuality and Sex Roles in the Nineteenth Century, Some Preliminary Observations"
 1991
16 4
"The Political Kingdom of God as Cause of Mormon-Gentile Conflict"
 1991-1995
16 5-6
"When Truth was Treason"
 1993-1994
16 7-8
"Under Kaiser und Fuerher Growing Up in Hitler's Germany"
 1995-1996
16 9
"Encyclopedia of Religious Controversies in the United States"
 1996-1997
16 10
Various Essays

Book ReviewsReturn to Top

These folders contain reviews and correspondence related to the reviews.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
17 1
Reinhold Niebuhr: A Political Account
1972-1973
17 2
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
1974-1975
17 3
Versions of the Mormon Past: Essays in Mormon Histiography
1989
17 4
The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth Century America
1992
17 5
Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter Day Saints in American Religion
1992
17 6
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
1992
17 7
Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
1995
17 8
The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
1995
17 9
The Journals of William E. McClellin, 1831-1936
1995-1997
17 10
Reconsidering No Man Knows My Name: Fawn Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect
1995-1997
17 11
The Frugality of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future
1995-1997
17 12
Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition
1996
17 13
Same Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth Century Americans: A Mormon Example
1998
17 14
Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine: The Persuasiveness of Mormonism
1998
17 15
Miscellaneous
 1974-1998

Manuscript CritiquesReturn to Top

Unless noted the folders contain critiques and correspondence related to the critiques.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
18 1
Latter Day Saints and Reorganized Latter Day Saints in British Columbia
1994
18 2
The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1957: The Rhetoric and Reality
1985
18 3
The Function of Naturalistic Terms: Environmental Explanation for the Book of Mormon
1986
18 4
Women, The Family, and Alternative Lifestyles in America
1989
18 5
Mapping Contemporary Mormon Historiography: An Annotated Bibliography
1990
18 6
The Year of the Lord 1891
1994
18 7
The Book of Mormon: Valid History or Spurious Record?"
1998
18 8
Concord and Discord in Mormonism
18 9
Strangers in the Land
18 10
Zion in the Courts Footnotes
18 11
Joseph Smith Chapter
18 12
B.H. Roberts as a Historian
18 13
God's Family Kingdom
18 14
Untitled Manuscript

Historical SocietiesReturn to Top

These folders contain correspondence, newsletters, programs, and papers related to the societies.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
19 1
American Society of Reformation Research
 1963-1965
19 2
Utah State Historical Society
 1964
19 3
LDS Institute of Religion Forum
 1966
19 4
Western History Association
 1966-1986
19 5-6
Organization of American Historians
 1968
19 7-8
American Historical Association
 1969
20 1
American Society of Church History
 1971
20 2
Canadian Historical Association Meeting
 1974
20 3
Canadian Association of American Studies
 1976
20 4
Childhood Life in American Life Conference
 1978
20 5
Society for the Sociological Study of Mormon Life
 1981-1983
20 6-7
Sunstone Symposium
 1994
20 8
Unification Theological Seminary Meeting
 1983
20 9
CUSHWA Conference at Notre Dame
 1985
20 10
Mormon Presence in Canada
 1987
20 11
Swedenburg Foundation
 1990-1996
20 12
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
 1990
20 13
Irwin Colloquium
 1991

Canadian Mormon and Mormon Historical AssociationsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
21 1-2
Canadian Mormon Historical Association
 1987-1995
21 3-5
Mormon Historical Association
 1965-1995
21 6
Conference papers

Mormon Culture and Wayne State UniversityReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
22 1
Symposium on Mormon Culture
 1953
22 2-3
Brigham Young University papers
 1956-1957
22 4
Harvard University exam
 1957-1958
22 5-6
Council of the Fifty
 1957-1958
22 7-14
Wayne State University
 1960-1961

Assorted Works and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
23 1
Hugh Nibley Autographs
 1961-1966
23 2-4
Letters
 1961-1963
23 5-6
Ohio State University
 1964-1965
23 7-9
Letters
 1964-1965
23 10
Veterans Administration
 1966
23 12
"No Sir That's Not Research" by Gilbert W. Scherffs
 1967
23 13
Queen's University
 1968
23 14
Correspondence
 1968
23 15
The American West
 1968
23 16
Queen's University Classes
 1968-1977
23 17-18
Letters
 1969-1971
23 19
Gordon Douglas Pollock Thesis Review
23 20
Slaves and Historians Article Review
23 21
George Ellsworth Autograph
 1979
23 22-23
Letters
 1982-1983
23 24
References
23 25
German (Beck)
23 26
Letters
 1984
23 27
Alles gehort allen (Beck)
 1984
23 28
Notes on the Life of Edward Middlemas (Pollock)
 1984

Academic PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
24 1
Queen's University Classes
 1985-1986
24 2
Contemporary Authors, Klaus Hansen entry
24 3
Review for Church History, "Masonic Themes in the Joseph Smith Story"
24 4
Letters
 1986
24 5-26
Articles and Correspondence
Contains articles written by Klaus Hansen, correspondence to and from Klaus Hansen, and reviews by and about Klaus Hansen.
1989-1999

Articles and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
25 1
Queen's University Classes
25 2
"Growing Up in Hitler's Germany"
 1996
25 3
Mormon History Bibliography
25 4
Ph.D. Comprehensives
 1997
25 5
Letters
 1997
25 6
Reviews
 1997
25 7
Public Lending Rights, Canada
 1998
25 8
Notes on "Altered Lives" by Newell Bringhurst
25 9
Study Plan for Richard Bushman
 1998
25 10
Letters
 1998
25 11
Free Inquiry
 1998
25 12
Chapter of Die Mormon, Albert Mossmer
25 13
Reviews
 1998
25 14
Notes on "Hearts Made Glad"
 1999
25 15
"Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith" by Robert D. Anderson
 1999
25 16
Sunstone
 1999
25 17
Letters
 1999
25 18
Reviews
 1999
25 19
Notes on "Becoming a People" by Janet Ellington
25 20
Notes on "Becoming a People" by Janet Ellington

Correspondence and AcademiaReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
26 1
Letters
 2000
26 2
"Sefied Bush"
26 3
Notes on "Hair and Wool" by Clyde Forsberg
 2000
26 4-5
Journal of American History, Vorlander Essay
26 6
Clyde Forsberg Job References
 2001
26 7
Church History
 2001
26 8
"Vidredo Pareto's Influence on USA Sociology"
26 9
Letters
 2001
26 10
Papers and Letters by Newell Bringhurst
26 11
"Mormon History and Conundrum of Culture"
26 12
"In Search of the Supernail"
 2002

Articles and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
27 1
American Religious History by Catherine Albanese
 2002
27 2
"Was Deed to Arrington Journal Ignored?"
 2002
27 3
Invoices and Vouchers
 2002
27 4
Letters
 2002
27 5
Larry Foster
27 6
Religion in Geschiete and Gegenwart
27 7-8
"In the Catbird Seat"
 2002
27 9
Notes on "Following the Wrong God Home"
 2002
27 10
The Chronicle-Colloquy Live
 2002
27 11
Organization of American Historians
27 12
"An Irreverent Essay" by by John Llewellyn
 2003
27 13
Conference on God, Humanity, and Revelation
 2003
27 14
Letters
 2003
27 15
"Mormons and the Third Reich"
 2003
27 16
Encyclopedia of Religion, "Mormonism"
 2003
27 17
"Mormonism and Masturbation"
 2003
27 18
Letters
 2003
27 19
Clyde R. Forsberg Jr.
27 20
"Joseph Smith", Encyclopedia
 2003
27 21
"Mormonism", Encyclopedia
 2003
27 22
"Defending the Kingdom"
 2004
27 23
"From the Outside Looking In"
27 24
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
 2004
27 25
JWHA Newsletter
 2004
27 26
Papers by Jan Shipps
28 1
Papers on history of childhood by Holly Brewer
28 2
Encyclopedia of the New American Nation
28 3
Letters
 2004
28 4
Reviews of "Equal Rights"
 2005
28 5
Mormon History Association Conference
 2005
28 6
Paul Roazen
28 7
DNA and Mormonism
28 8
Edmund Morgan
28 9
Tony Woolf
28 10
"What Would the Druids Do?"
 2005
28 11
Sunstone
 2005
28 12
"Junius and Joseph"
 2005
28 13
Review of "Mormonism"
 2005
28 14
Fawn Brodie
28 15
Western Historical Quarterly
 2005
28 16
"Jews, Gentiles, and Israel"
 2005
28 17
"Historical Development of New Masturbation"
 2005
28 18
Letters
 2005
28 19
"Mormonism's Raveling and Unraveling"
 2005

Articles and BooksReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
29 1
Tocqueville Conference
 2005
29 2
Council of Fifty
29 3
Articles on Mormonism
29 4-6
The Romantic Paradox

Books, Academia, and CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
30 1
The Romantic Paradox
30 2
Articles
 2006
30 3
Letters
 2006
30 4
Joseph Smith American Culture
2006
30 5
"Joseph Smith American Culture" Essay
 2006
30 6
Evaluation of Roy A. Prete
30 7
Reviews by Newell Bringhurst
30 8
American Exceptionalism
30 9
Hansen Family Photos
30 10
Articles by Holly Brewer
30 11
"There is Always a Way of Escape
 2006
30 12
"Search for a Lost Parkhead"
 2006
30 13
Lived Religion
30 14
Application for Ethan Yorgesen
30 15
Reviews of Tocqueville
30 16
Dialogue Positivism
30 17
Harvey Mansfield
30 18
Peter Miliken
31 1
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
2006
31 2
Mitt Romney
 2006
31 3
Application for Ethan R. Yorgasan
 2006
31 4
Application for Matthius Brewerburg
 2006
31 5
Tribute to Robert F. Hopwood
 2007
31 6
"New Religious Ideas and Orthodoxy"
 2007
31 7
"The Grandest Principle of the Gospel" Review
 2007
31 8
"Everyday Anti-Semitism in Pre-War Nazi Germany"
 2007
31 9
Articles
 2007
31 10
Mormons PBS
31 11
"Richard Lyman Buchman"
31 12
Letters
 2007
31 13
"Books of Mormon" Article
 2007
31 14
Divided by God
2007
31 15-16
Mormon History Association Conference
 2007
32 1
Review of "What Hath God Wrought"
 2008
32 2
Mountain Meadows Massacre
32 3
"Religion Past and Present" Encyclopedia Article
32 4
"War and Confusion in Babylon"
32 5
"Lincoln, Cobden, and Bright"
32 6
Letters
 2010
32 7
America's Unwritten Constitution
32 8
Letters
 2011
32 9
"Joseph Bates Noble" Review
32 10
Davis Bitton
32 11
"Tom Aspland" Article
32 12
Differing Visions
32 13
Reviews of "Amazon"
32 14
"Equal Rights and the Exoticizing of Mormonism"
32 15
"A Salt that Seasons" Review
32 16
"Neither Saint nor Scoundrel" Review
32 17
"Comment" by Davis Bitton
32 18
"The Rejected Romantics"
32 19
"The Long Honeymoon"
32 20
Klaus J. Hansen Tribute
32 21
Mormonism Encyclopedia Entry
32 22
Mormon Bibliographies
32 23
Beinecke Rare Book Manuscript

Miscellaneous Mormon AcademiaReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
33 1
Mormonism Death and Sexuality
33 2-4
Miscellaneous Mormon

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Kingdom of God (Latter Day Saint doctrine)
  • Latter Day Saint authors
  • Latter Day Saint churches--History

Personal Names

  • Hansen, Klaus J.--Archives

Corporate Names

  • Council of Fifty (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Form or Genre Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Dissertations
  • Drafts (documents)
  • Reviews (Criticism)

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1995 (last modified: 2016 and 2020)

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