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Harry Elmer Barnes papers, 1887-1977

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968
Title
Harry Elmer Barnes papers
Dates
1887-1977 (inclusive)
1920-1968 (bulk)
Quantity
102.50 cubic feet (213 boxes)
Collection Number
00745
Summary
The papers of the first American historian to support Holocaust denial and the Revisionist school of history.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Harry Elmer Barnes taught economics, sociology and history at various colleges and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Smith, Amherst, Temple, Colorado, and the New School for Social Research from 1918-1955. He was with the editorial department of Scripps-Howard newspapers from 1929-1940 and was a consultant on criminology and penology to federal and state government agencies. A noted revisionist historian, Barnes questioned conventional views of orthodox religion and the origins of World War I, and opposed the entry of the United States into World War II. He wrote numerous books and articles, lectured widely, and corresponded with numerous individuals in his various fields of interest.

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Content Description

The Harry Elmer Barnes collection contains correspondence (1887-1969); manuscripts by Barnes and others; subject files; reprints; pamphlets; scrapbooks; speeches; magazine and newspaper clippings; books by Barnes; and miscellaneous other materials.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Alternative Forms Available

Existence and Location of Copies

Digital reproductions of select material from this collection are available at https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~195~195.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Harry Elmer Barnes at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

The collection was received from Harry Elmer Barnes, 1960-1968; David L. Hoggan, 1962; Richard T. Ruetten, 1971; Mrs. Alfred Vagts, 1971 Judson B. Pearson, 1970; Jean Barnes, 1970; Herbert C. Roseman, 1969; Dr. Robert H. Barnes, 1977-1980; Fritz Eberhardt, 1980; Henry M. Adams, 1988-1991; John W. Blodgett, 1974; Lawrence E. Gelfand, 1995; Peter D. Senkiw, 2015.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Alexandra Cardin in January 2017.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

    • Description: Abstract of address by H.E. Barnes
      Dates: 1940-1962
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Advertisements
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Biographical Material
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Biographical File - Harry Elmer Barnes
      Dates: 1915-1954, undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Biographical File - Harry Elmer Barnes ,FBI Documents
      Dates: 1948-1977
      Container: Box 201
    • Books:

      • Description: A new Pattern for a Tired World by Louis Bromfield, Inscribed and Correspondence by the author
        Dates: 1954
        Container: Box 211
      • Description: International Aid: a Summary by Hugh L. Keenleyside, Inscribed by the author
        Dates: 1967
        Container: Box 211
      • Description: The Challenge of World Communism by Hamilton Fish, Inscribed by the author
        Dates: June 25, 1946
        Container: Box 211
      • Description: The Repression of Crime by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1926
        Container: Box 211
      • Description: Blasting the Historical Blackout by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: May, 1963
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: Conquest Through Immigration by George W. Robnett, Inscribed by the author
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: European Governments and Politics by Frederic A. Ogg
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: Impressions of South America by Andre Siegfried
        Dates: 1933
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: Is Humanism a New Religion? by Harry Elmer Barnes and Herbert T. Rosenfeld
        Dates: 1962
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: Naturalism and Historical Understanding by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1967
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: The Case Against Original Sin by Fred. W. Busch,Inscribed by the author
        Dates: 1964
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: The Cold War and its Origins 1917-1960 by D.F. Fleming, Correspondence by the author
        Dates: 1961
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York: A review by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1966
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: The End of the Old America by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1958
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: John Bright, Victorian Reformer by Herman Ausubel, Inscribed and Correspondence by the author
        Dates: 1967
        Container: Box 212
      • Description: Revisionim: A key to Peace and Other Essays by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1980
        Container: Box 213
      • Description: In Quest of Truth and Justice: De-Biunking the War-Guilt Myth by Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1972
        Container: Box 213
    • Description: Books, A-Barnes
      Container: Box 2
    • Description: Books, Barnes-R
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Books, S-Z
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Book Lists
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Book Reviews (A-Barnes) (manuscript)
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Book Reviews (Barnes-Z) (manuscript)
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Booklet - "Rampart Journal of Individualistic Thought"
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Rampart Journal of Individualistic Thought"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "The Court Historians Versus Revisionism"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Select Bibliography of Revisionist Books"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Revisionism and Brainwashing"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Il Caso di Caryl Chessman" by Barnes
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Sunrise at Campobello: Sundown at Yalta" by Barnes
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Blasting the Historical Blackout" by Barnes
      Dates: 1963, undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Booklet - "Rampart Journal of Individualistic Thought",
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Brochures
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Brochures
      Container: Box 6
    • Description: Brochures
      Container: Box 7
    • Description: Bound Periodical, "The American Mercury"
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box 204
    • Description: Catalogs
      Container: Box 7
    • Correspondence:

    • Description: Correspondence - FBI
      Dates: January 13, 1976-April, 14, 1977
      Container: Box 196
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams
      Dates: 1958-1961
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams
      Dates: 1961-1970
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams
      Dates: 1965-1969
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams - Material for volume on Barnes
      Dates: 1944-1963, undated
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams - Material for volume on Barnes
      Dates: 1954-1964, undated
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with Henry Adams - Material for volumen on Barnes(War Controversy)
      Dates: 1931-1945, undated
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Correspondence with John W. Blodgett
      Dates: 1947-1968, undated
      Container: Box 198
    • Description: Correspondence with David L. Hoggan
      Dates: 1950-1968
      Container: Box 199
    • Description: Correspondence with Lawrence Dennis
      Dates: 1932-1968
      Container: Box 200
    • Description: Correspondence with Charles Holmes
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Correspondence with Lawrence Gelfand
      Dates: 1958-1968, undated
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Correspondence with Mrs. James Peacock
      Dates: 1940-1968
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Correspondence with Mrs. Peacock - Educational Materials, Booklets and Photographs,
      Dates: 1955-1965
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Court proceedings
      Container: Box 84
    • Description: Dr. Harry James Carman
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Ferdinand Schevill
      Dates: 1953, undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Galley Proofs
      Container: Box 85
    • Description: Galley Proofs
      Container: Box 86
    • Description: Galley Proofs
      Container: Box 87
    • Description: Income Tax Information
      Dates: 1962-1967
      Container: Box 88
    • Description: Institute for Humane Studies
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Insurance Material
      Container: Box 88
    • Description: Interviews
      Container: Box 89
    • Description: Interview of Harry Elmer Barnes by Francis W. Schruben, Cassette and Transcript
      Dates: 1964, 1977
      Container: Box 196
    • Description: Itineraries
      Container: Box 89
    • Description: Leaflets
      Container: Box 89
    • Description: Legal Documents
      Container: Box 90
    • Description: FBI Legal Documents
      Dates: 1936-1959
      Container: Box 196
    • Description: Lists
      Container: Box 90
    • Description: Lists (Bibliography)
      Container: Box 90
    • Magazine Clippings:

    • Description: Miscellaneous Manuscript Pages
      Container: Box 96
    • Manuscripts:

      • Description: Barnes author, A-I
        Dates:
        Container: Box 97
      • Description: Barnes author, J-Pearl Harbor
        Dates:
        Container: Box 98
      • Description: Barnes author, Pearl Harbor-Perpetual War
        Dates:
        Container: Box 99
      • Description: Barnes author, Perpetual War-S
        Dates:
        Container: Box 100
      • Description: Barnes author, T-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 101
      • Description: New Horizons in Criminology
        Dates:
        Container: Box 101
      • Description: New Horizons in Criminology
        Dates:
        Container: Box 102
      • Description: Authors A-B
        Dates:
        Container: Box 102
      • Description: Authors C-H
        Dates:
        Container: Box 103
      • Description: Authors, Hughes-Lussenhop
        Dates:
        Container: Box 104
      • Description: Authors, Lussenhop
        Dates:
        Container: Box 105
      • Description: Authors, Lussenhop-Pardridge
        Dates:
        Container: Box 106
      • Description: Authors, Parsons-Porter
        Dates:
        Container: Box 107
      • Description: Authors, Porter
        Dates:
        Container: Box 108
      • Description: Authors, Porter-Pu
        Dates:
        Container: Box 109
      • Description: Authors, Rassinier
        Dates:
        Container: Box 110
      • Description: Authors, Rassinier-S
        Dates:
        Container: Box 111
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 112
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 113
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 114
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 115
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 116
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 117
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 118
      • Description: Authors, none indicated, textbooks
        Dates:
        Container: Box 119
      • Description: Authors, T-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 120
      • Description: No Author, titles A-F
        Dates:
        Container: Box 121
      • Description: No author, titles G-P
        Dates:
        Container: Box 122
      • Description: No author, titles M-R
        Dates:
        Container: Box 123
      • Description: No author, titles S-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 124
      • Description: No author, no titles
        Dates:
        Container: Box 124
      • Description: No author, no titles
        Dates:
        Container: Box 125
      • Description: Chessman, Barnes author, A-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 126
      • Description: Chessman, Authors A-B
        Dates:
        Container: Box 126
      • Description: Chessman, Authors C-Matt
        Dates:
        Container: Box 127
      • Description: Chessman, Authors Mc-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 128
      • Description: Chessman, No authors, titles A-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 129
      • Description: Chessman, no authors, no titles
        Dates:
        Container: Box 129
      • Description: Incomplete manuscripts
        Container: Box 96
    • Description: Manuscript on Barnes by Henry Adams - Phase I and II,
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Manuscript - Partial draft of "Pearl Harbor after Twenty Five Years" by Barnes,
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Maps
      Container: Box 130
    • Description: Material for volume on Barnes
      Dates: 1932-1969, undated
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Material for volume on Barnes (Int'L Relations, WWII)
      Dates: 1936-1941, undated
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Memos (non-correspondence)
      Container: Box 130
    • Miscellaneous:

      • Description: A-Book Blurbs
        Dates:
        Container: Box 130
      • Description: Book Corrections-Class Books
        Dates:
        Container: Box 131
      • Description: Co-E
        Dates:
        Container: Box 132
      • Description: F-L
        Dates:
        Container: Box 133
      • Description: M-Pearl Harbor
        Dates:
        Container: Box 134
      • Description: Pearl Harbor-Post Cards
        Dates:
        Container: Box 135
      • Description: Post Cards-School
        Dates:
        Container: Box 136
      • Description: School-TEE
        Dates:
        Container: Box 137
      • Description: T-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 138
    • Newsletters:

      • Description: A-B
        Dates:
        Container: Box 139
      • Description: C-Human Events
        Dates:
        Container: Box 140
      • Description: I-Z
        Dates:
        Container: Box 141
    • Description: Newsletters - "Facts in Review",
      Dates: July 1940-November 1940
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Newspapers, total and partial
      Container: Box 142
    • Description: Newspapers, total and partial
      Container: Box 143
    • Description: Newspapers, total and partial
      Container: Box 144
    • Description: Newspapers clippings
      Dates: 1939-1941, undated
      Container: Box 213
    • Newspaper clippings:

    • Description: News Release
      Dates: 1924-1959
      Container: Box 155
    • Description: Notebook, Prison architecture
      Container: Box 155
    • Notes:

      • Description: A-F
        Container: Box 156
      • Description: F-History
        Container: Box 157
      • Description: History-Miscellaneous
        Container: Box 158
      • Description: P-War and Peace
        Container: Box 159
      • Description: War and Peace
        Container: Box 160
    • Description: Open Letters
      Container: Box 160
    • Description: Oversize Periodicals
      Container: Box 193
    • Description: Oversize Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 194
    • Description: Oversize Miscellaneous
      Container: Box 195
    • Description: Oversize Pictures
      Container: Box 195
    • Description: Oversize Periodicals
      Container: Box 195
    • Description: Page Proofs, Harry Elmer Barnes: Learned Crusader,
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 196
    • Pamphlets:

      • Description: Auhtors A-B
        Container: Box 160
      • Description: Barnes author A-Ch
        Container: Box 160
      • Description: Barnes author Cr-W
        Container: Box 161
      • Description: Authors C-F
        Container: Box 161
      • Description: Authors G-S
        Container: Box 162
      • Description: Authors T-Z
        Container: Box 163
    • Papers:

      • Description: A-P
        Container: Box 163
      • Description: R-Z
        Container: Box 164
    • Periodicals:

      • Description: A
        Container: Box 164
      • Description: At-Columbia University Forum
        Container: Box 165
      • Description: Community News-Field Sports
        Container: Box 166
      • Description: Front Page Detective-Hartwick Review
        Container: Box 167
      • Description: Hartwick Review
        Container: Box 168
      • Description: Hartwick Review
        Container: Box 169
      • Description: Hartwick Review
        Container: Box 170
      • Description: H-I
        Container: Box 171
      • Description: K-National Geographic
        Container: Box 172
      • Description: National Review-Newsweek
        Container: Box 173
      • Description: Newsweek-P
        Container: Box 174
      • Description: R-S
        Container: Box 175
      • Description: T
        Container: Box 176
      • Description: U
        Container: Box 177
      • Description: U-Z
        Container: Box 178
    • Description: Photo Albums
      Container: Box 195
    • Description: Photographs
      Dates: 1926, undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Photographs: Barnes, Harry Elmer
      Dates: 1929-1948, undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Photographs: Barnes, Harry Elmer and Family and Friends
      Dates: 1906-1976, undated
      Container: Box 201
    • Description: Photos, Identified - New York
      Container: Box 178
    • Description: Photographs - Personal,
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Photos, Unidentified
      Container: Box 178
    • Description: Photos, Unidentified
      Container: Box 179
    • Description: Programs
      Container: Box 180
    • Description: Programs
      Container: Box 181
    • Description: Publications -Including booklets and newspaper clippings, either by or about Barnes,
      Dates: 1938-1963
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Radio broadcasts
      Container: Box 182
    • Description: Reports, A-M
      Container: Box 182
    • Description: Reports, N-Z
      Container: Box 183
    • Reprints:

      • Description: Authors A-Barnes
        Container: Box 183
      • Description: Authors, Barnes
        Container: Box 184
      • Description: Authors, Barnes
        Container: Box 185
      • Description: Authors, Barnes-Co
        Container: Box 186
      • Description: Authors, Co-H
        Container: Box 187
      • Description: Authors, H-O
        Container: Box 188
      • Description: Authors, O-Z
        Container: Box 189
    • Scrapbooks:

      • Description: Europe Trip Mementos
        Dates: 1926
        Container: Box 205
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: 1913-1926
        Container: Box 205
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: 1926-1927
        Container: Box 205
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: 1927-1929
        Container: Box 205
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: 1928-1929
        Container: Box 206
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: 1930-1933
        Container: Box 206
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: 1933-1935
        Container: Box 206
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, booklist and bookreviews
        Dates: 1929-1939
        Container: Box 206
      • Description: Editorials, vol.1
        Dates: October, 1929-January, 1930
        Container: Box 207
      • Description: Editorials, vol.2
        Dates: January, 1930-March, 1930
        Container: Box 207
      • Description: Editorials, vol.3
        Dates: March, 1930-June, 1930
        Container: Box 207
      • Description: Editorials, vol.4
        Dates: June, 1930-August, 1930
        Container: Box 207
      • Description: Editorials, vol.6
        Dates: October, 1930-April, 1931
        Container: Box 208
      • Description: Editorials, vol.7
        Dates: March, 1931-July, 1931
        Container: Box 208
      • Description: Editorials, vol.8
        Dates: July, 1931-December, 1932
        Container: Box 208
      • Description: Scripps-Howard Editorials, vol.5
        Dates: July, 1930-December, 1930
        Container: Box 208
      • Description: Clippings on French War Relief
        Dates: January, 1941-November, 1944
        Container: Box 209
      • Description: Editorials, vol.9
        Dates: December, 1932-October, 1934
        Container: Box 209
      • Description: Editorials, vol.10
        Dates: October, 1935-March, 1940
        Container: Box 209
      • Description: Collected Works by H.E. Barnes
        Dates: 1924
        Container: Box 210
      • Description: Collected Writings by H.E. Barnes
        Dates: 1918-1921
        Container: Box 210
      • Description: Collected Writings by H.E. Barnes
        Dates: 1917-1920
        Container: Box 210
      • Description: Collected Writings by H.E. Barnes
        Dates: 1921-1922
        Container: Box 210
      • Description: Collected Writings by H.E. Barnes
        Dates: 1921-1924
        Container: Box 210
      • Description: Europe Trip Mementos
        Dates: July, 1927-September, 1927
        Container: Box 210
      • Description: Newspaper clippings, brochures and pamphlets
        Dates: April, 1930-October, 1930
        Container: Box 210
    • Sound Seminars:

      • Description: Treating the Convicted Delinquent, Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1969
        Container: Box 196
      • Description: Reform Outside prison Walls: Probation and Parole, Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: 1969
        Container: Box 196
      • Description: A Rational attitude Towards Crime, Harry Elmer Barnes
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 196
    • Description: Spats, Baseball gloves, 2 baseballs and 1 desk nameplate
      Container: Box 190
    • Description: Speeches, A-Z
      Container: Box 191
    • Description: Speeches by Barnes
      Dates: 1936-1941
      Container: Box 213
    • Description: Statements
      Container: Box 192
    • Description: Stock Information
      Container: Box 192
    • Description: Telegram - Thank you note to Barnes,
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box 202
    • Description: Travel Guides
      Container: Box 192

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Subject Terms

  • Corrections.
  • Criminology.
  • Historiography.
  • History, Modern -- 20th century.
  • Peace.
  • Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
  • Religion.
  • Sociology.
  • War.
  • World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
  • World history.
  • World politics.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Scrapbooks.

Occupations

  • Historians.
  • Sociologists.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names

    • Adams, Henry Mason, 1907-
    • Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948.
    • Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958.
    • Hiles, Charles C.
    • Kimmel, Husband Edward, 1882-1968.
    • Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
    • Shotwell, James Thomson, 1874-1965.
    • Teeters, Negley K. (Negley King), 1896-
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