Siegfried B. Rolland Papers

Siegfried B. Rolland Papers, 1945-1988

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Siegfried B. Rolland, 1918-1989
Title: Siegfried B. Rolland Papers
Dates: 1945-1988 (inclusive)
19451988
Quantity: 9 cubic feet
Collection Number: MG368 (collection)
Summary: Papers relating to history professor Rolland's work on university and statewide committees, lecture notes and other material related to his teaching, material documenting his historical research, especially on Cadwallader Colden, notebooks from his graduate student days, and correspondence, both professional and personal.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages: English
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Siegfried B. Rolland was born in New York City February 12, 1918. He attended Ferrar Modern School, an experimental grade school in Stelton, New Jersey and Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Although he never received a high school diploma he earned a baccalaureate and master's degree from Wayne University at Detroit, Michigan, in 1941 and 1947, and a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin which was awarded in 1952.

He served in the United States Army from February 1941 to June 1946. He taught at Wayne University for three years before coming to the University of Idaho in 1952. He was offered the job in the social science department at Idaho without even applying for it, after university officials heard a recommendation from the history department chairman at Wisconsin. Rolland stayed at the University of Idaho for 32 years before retiring as head of the history department in April 1984. During his career he taught U.S. history, diplomatic history, Latin American history, Idaho history, Pacific Northwest history, and his specialty, U.S. colonial history.

He was frequently asked to consult on historical projects and speak on historical topics. He published scholarly articles in both professional and popular magazines.

He spearheaded the drive for better wages and benefits for UI faculty, and served as a member of at least 20 professional and scholarly organizations, boards, and faculty committees. He was also active in improving student-faculty relations at the university.

He married Julia Edgar at Pontiac, Michigan, on June 15, 1948. They had two daughters and one son. Rolland died of a heart attack on January 19, 1989.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The papers of Siegfried B. Rolland span the years 1945 to 1988, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1948 to 1984.

The papers include records relating to his work with university committees and non-university organizations; lecture notes and other material concerning his teaching at the University of Idaho; material representing his historical research, especially on Cadwallader Colden, a prominent figure in New York colonial history; lecture notes and class notes from his days as a graduate student and his pre U of I teaching career; and finally a collection of correspondence, both professional and personal, the latter being from his father and step-mother.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The material in this Manuscript Group was in no apparent order when received, therefore a series order was imposed during processing.

The first series, Committees and Organizations, 1952-1985, contains minutes, memos, and other material documenting Rolland's service on university committees, including a large collection of material relating to the Faculty Affairs Committee. Non-university committees represented include the Idaho State Historical Records Advisory Board and the Idaho Historic Sites Review Board.

Series two, Teaching and Related Material, 1953-1984, contains material related to the Black Studies program, plus lecture notes, tests, and class handouts for his history courses. It also includes information used in advising students in the history program.

Research Material, 1948-1987, comprises the third series. The first group of material related to Rolland's research on Cadwallader Colden, a prominent figure in New York politics from 1718-1760, who served as surveyor general and acted as advisor to many governors. It includes work done for his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin in 1946, and research done in the late 1960s and early 1970s on a biography of Colden which was never completed. Included are a draft of the dissertation, note cards, and transcripts and microfilms of Colden and related papers in various repositories. The second subseries contains book reviews, material related to consulting on several historical topics including Harry Orchard, and bibliography cards for books on American history.

Student and Pre-Idaho Teaching Material, 1945-1951, is in series IV. It is divided into two subseries, Wayne University and University of Wisconsin. Both contain lecture and class notes, plus papers students wrote for classes which he taught. Also included is a 1946 draft of his thesis at Wayne University, "The Detroit English language labor press, 1838- 1889."

The final series, Personal and Other Material, 1954-1988, contains an accident report, book acquisitions, a promissory note, vita, and a poster with the words of Chief Seattle to President Franklin Pierce in 1955, entitled "Where is the eagle--gone." This series also contains correspondence. Although some is related to his teaching and historical research the majority consists of letters from his father and step-mother who lived in Italy for several years.

Duplicates of mimeographed material such as class syllabi and tests were discarded. University publications were removed from the papers and will be checked against the holdings of the Special Collections Department as will the brochures and pamphlets on Idaho dams which comprised most of Series I in the original inventory. In all the papers were reduced by 4 cubic feet.

Acquisition Information

In 1952 Professor Siegfried B. Rolland donated 2 cubic feet of material to the University of Idaho; these were processed as Manuscript Group 117 by Judith Nielsen in 1983. Additional material received from Rolland's widow between January 1993 and September 1994 was combined with the original group the whole was reprocessed by Ms. Nielsen in October and November of 1994.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Original inventory, 1983Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 1/1

1 item

Series I. Committees and Organizations, 1952-1985Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/2-4	Academic Calendar Committee 124 items	1963-1969
1/5	American Federation of Teachers 8 items	1975-1976
1/6	American Studies Committee 8 items	1974-1975
1/7	Appeal Hearing Committee 35 items	1983-1984
1/8-10	Archives Advisory Council 45 items	1975-1977
1/11-15	Archives and History Committee 258 items	1952-1965
1/16	Blue Ribbon Committee 8 items	1984
1/17	Center for Native American Development 10 items	1970-1976
1/18	College of Letters and Science 9 items	1968
1/19	Core Curriculum Committee 21 items	1981
1/20	Council of Faculty Chairmen 7 items	1973-1974
1/21-22	Council of Higher Education Faculties 118 items	1974-1985
1/23-27	Council on Regional Historical Research in Progress 388 items	1956-1960
1/28	Foreshadow 16 items	1957-1976
1/29	Facilities 3 items	1963
1/30-34	Faculty Affairs Committee 291 items	1973-1980
1/35	Affirmative action 6 items	1976-1977
1/36-37	Appeals board 24 items	1973
2/38	Appeals board 18 items	1974-1977
2/39	Evaluations and reviews 38 items	1974-1976
2/40	Evaluations/Salaries 60 items	1977-1978
2/41	Extension (consolidation of staff) 5 items	1975-1976
2/42	Faculty at large/Professional exempt staff 8 items	1974-1976
2/43	Financial exigency 3 items	1974
2/44	Insurance 20 items	1974-1977
2/45	Mandatory sabbatical leaves 3 items	1973-1976
2/46	Miscellaneous 51 items	1973-1976
2/47	Promotion and tenure 25 items	1974-1977
2/48	Retirement 29 items	1970-1975
2/49	Salary 65 items	1972-1977
2/50	Savings bond drive 8 items	1975
2/51	Faculty Council 31 items	1973-1974
2/52	Collective bargaining 10 items	1973
2/53	Communications 2 items	1973
2/54	Chairman letters to faculty 6 items	1973-1974
2/55	Forest History Foundation 6 items	1957-1964
2/56	Hay plan 56 items	1976-1977
2/57-59	Health Insurance Advisory Group 91 items	1982-1983
2/60-61	History Dept. minutes and memos 82 items	1969-1976
2/62	Idaho Historic Sites Review Board 18 items	1969-1983
2/63	Idaho Historical Society 94 items	1956-1961
2/64	Idaho State Historical Records Advisory Board 5 items	1975-1980
2/65	Inland Empire Waterways Association 24 items	1961-1964
2/66	Port of Lewiston 8 items	1962-1964
2/67	Juntura 29 items	1974-1976
2/68	Legislative Coordinating Committee 1 item	1976
2/69	Library Associates 3 items	1971
2/70	Minority Student Program Coordinator selection committee 45 items	1974
2/71	Oregon National Historic Trail Advisory Council 9 items	1979-1983
2/72	Organization of American Historians 13 items	1974-1975
2/73	Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference 2 items	1973-1974
2/74	Pettyjohn bequest committee 11 items	1979-1980
2/75	Presidential search committee 4 items	1977
2/76	Social Sciences Coordinating Committee 38 items	1969-1972
2/77	Student evaluation of teaching faculty 12 items	1969-1970
2/78	Summer session and continuing education 5 items	1972
2/79	University Bicentennial Committee 5 items	1975-1976
2/80	White Pine Program 1 item	1972

Series II. Teaching and Related Material, 1953-1984Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
2/81	Black Studies: Program development 29 items	1969-1973
2/82	Budgets, etc. 14 items	1970
2/83	Coordinating committee 18 items	1974-1976
3/84-85	Class material 22 items	1975-1976
3/86-87	Lecture notes 24 items	1976
3/88	Tests 4 items	1972-1973
3/89	Black student union 9 items	1972-1973
3/90	Audio visual material available 13 items	1975
3/91	Booklists 20 items	1970-1973
3/92-93	Magazines and newspapers 11 items	1970-1973
3/94	Publications 3 items	1974-1975
3/95-97	History 9: Introduction to U.S. History 18 items	1953-1968
3/98-102	History 10: Introduction to U.S. History 28 items	1953-1968
3/103	History 101: History of Civilization, syllabus 1 item	undated
3/104-108	History 111: Latin America 43 items	1957-1963
3/109-111	History 112: Latin America 32 items	1957-1963
3/112-113	History 115: U.S. Diplomatic History 29 items	1954-1958
3/114-115	History 116: U.S. Diplomatic History 47 items	1954-1958
3/116-120	History 123: Idaho and the Pacific Northwest 64 items	1953-1960
3/121-123	History 124: Idaho and the Pacific Northwest 103 items	1953-1960
3/124	History 209: Dr. Hause's rules for writing papers 1 item	undated
3/125-128	History 411: American History, Colonies to 1763 41 items	1970-1973
4/129-131	History 412: The American Revolution 23 items	1984
4/132-134	History 413: U.S. History 1790-1828 22 items	undated
4/135-137	History 423: Idaho and the Pacific Northwest 69 items	1965-1983
4/138	History C423, Correspondence study 16 items	1971
4/139	History 441: Greece, syllabus 1 item	1982
4/140	History 442: Rome, syllabus 1 item	1982
4/141	History 446: Medieval Europe, syllabus 1 item	1982
4/142-145	Social Sciences 1 57 items	1951-1958
4/146-151	Social Sciences 2 61 items	1951-1958
4/152	Advising 37 items	1969-1981
4/153	Evaluation 5 items	1966
4/154	Evaluations of staff 5 items	1967-1971
4/155	Graduate program information 9 items	1966-1970
4/156	Graduate student committees 42 items	1960-1982
4/157	Ph.D. program review 3 items	1987
4/158	Ph.D. preliminary exams 13 items	1961-1982
4/159	Lecture notes: The Greek mind 1 item	undated
4/160	Colonial labor supply 3 items	undated
4/161	Recent American history 1917-1948 1 item	undated
4/162	Letters of recommendation 43 items	1970-1983
4/163	NDEA History Institute: Latin America 2 items	1966
4/164	Research guides and bibliographies 5 items	undated
4/165	Reserve book lists 5 items	1959-1961
4/166	Student paper outlines for History 290 41 items	1959-1963
4/167	Tenure review policy 4 items	1974
4/168	Workshop: The Indian in Pacific Northwest history 2 items	1955
4/169	Miscellaneous notes and test answers 2 items	undated

Series III. Research, 1948-1987Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	A. Cadwallader Colden	1948-1972
Box/Folder
4/170-171	Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, final draft with advisor's comments 4 items	1952
5/172	Colden dissertation, summary and obsolete pages 13 items	1951-1952
5/173	Colden dissertation, chapter outlines 10 items	1950
5/174	Seminar paper: Cadwallader Colden, historian 1 item	1948
5/175	Dissertation outline with Kelley's comments 1 item	1950
5/176	Paper: Cadwallader Colden, imperial statesman, 1760-1776 3 items	1952
5/177	Indian land policy (chapter 11) 1 item	1952
5/178	An interpretation of the colonial opposition to Parliament, 1760-1775 (chapter 12)	1952
5/179	Exponent of imperial control (chapter 10) article for Bench and Bar 1 item	1952
5/180	Cadwallader Colden and the administration of the public lands in New York, 1718-1760, with comments by Fred Winkler 4 items	196-
5/181	Cadwallader Colden, philosopher, typescript 1 item	196-?
5/182-183	Cadwallader Colden in the revolutionary era, 1760-1776, typescript submitted to William and Mary Quarterly 6 items	1955
5/184	Cadwallader Colden, imperial statesman, 1760-1776, presented at Idaho Historical Conference, Boise 5 items	1968
5/185	Maps of colonial New York 2 items	undated
5/186	Research proposal to University Research Committee 7 items	1967
5/187	Correspondence re: research on Colden biography 47 items	1961-1972
5/188	Correspondence with American Philosophical Society re: grant for Colden book 14 items	1961-1966
5/189	Microfilm reels ordered from various repositories 13 items	1962
5/190	List of broadsides at New York Historical Society 2 items	1962
5/191	Reprints of monographs on Colden by Saul Jarcho 3 items	1955-1956
5/192	Photostats of Colden letters, dated 1726 and 1757 2 items	1950
5/193	Photostats of Colden letters and University of Michigan, 1714-1715 3 items
5/194	Colden's essay on morality, typescript of original 1 item	undated
5/195	Index to Colden copy book in possession of A.S.W. Rosenbach 1 item	undated
5/196	Livingston family tree 1 item	undated
5/197	Transcripts of manuscripts at University of Michigan, 1742-1753 2 items	undated
5/198	Transcripts of manuscripts at New York Historical Society, 1720-1776 6 items	undated
5/199-200	Notecards: Subject file 2 items	undated
6/201	Subject file 1 item	undated
6/202	Papers by location 1 item	undated
6/203	Bibliography of manuscripts in New York Historical Society 1 item	undated
6/204	Annotated record of sources 1 item	undated
6/205	New York history, chronological file 1 item	undated
7/206	Microfilms: American Philosophical Society: Miscellaneous Colden scientific papers, 1721-1726 1 item
7/207	Bancroft Library: Colden papers, v.2 1 item
7/208-209	Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Livingston family papers 2 items	undated
7/210	University of Michigan: George Clinton papers, Sir Henry Clinton papers, Brisbane papers 1 item	undated
7/211	University Microfilms: Champagne, Roger James. The sons of liberty and the aristocracy in New York politics. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin 1 item	1960
7/212	Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Logan papers 1 item	undated
7/213-214	New York Historical Society: Cadwallader Colden scientific writings 2 items	undated
7/215	January 1963 Colden acquisition 1 item	undated
7/216	Joseph Reed papers 1 item	undated
7/217	Miscellaneous selections from 15 collections 1 item	undated
7/218	New York Public Library: Chalmers papers relating to New York, v.4 1 item	undated
7/219	William Smith diary, v.4 1 item	undated
7/220	Unidentified source: James Duane papers, 1680-1766 1 item
	B. Other	1954-1987
Box/Folder
7/221	Book reviews 22 items	1956-1987
7/222	Consulting 28 items	1977-1981
7/223	Encyclopedia articles: Colliers 43 items	1969-1973
7/224	ENC: World Book 10 items	1969
7/225	Alias Harry Orchard: a case of reasonable doubt. Project proposal and transcript of script 2 items	1980
7/226-227	Video cassettes 2 items	1980
7/228	Idaho territorial centennial 22 items	1960-1963
7/229	Lewis and Clark 7 items	1954-1963
7/230	Mining and minerals 3 items	1963
7/231	Miscellaneous newspaper clippings and maps 6 items	1963-1964
7/232	Miscellaneous history material 9 items	1960-1967
7/233	Typescripts: Idaho's other senators 3 items	undated
7/234	Oral history project 5 items	1957-1960
8/235	Nez Perce handbook project 3 items	1979
8/236	Salmon River project, "Beyond the still waters" 8 items	1981
8/237-238	Bibliography cards: American history 2 items	undated
8/239	Miscellaneous history 1 item	undated

Series IV. Student and Pre-Idaho Teaching Material, 1945-1951Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	A. Wayne University	1945-1951
Box/Folder
8/240	Michigan history, lecture notes 14 items	undated
8/241	The rise of industrial America to 1900, class notes 15 items	undated
8/242	Publications on social reform 2 items	1855-1879
8/243-244	Thesis draft: The Detroit English language labor press 1839-1889 2 items	1946
8/245-246	Bibliography cards: Thesis and related topics 2 items	1945-1946
8/247	History 101: Original lecture notes 12 items	1951
8/248	Students' term papers 6 items	1951
8/249	History 2: Exams and student papers 17 items	1949-1951
8/250	History 101 and 2: Tests and review sheets 9 items	1949-1951
	B. University of Wisconsin	1947-1949
Box/Folder
9/251	Greek and Hellenistic world, class notes, maps, etc. 8 items	1948
9/252	Bibliographies: various classes 8 items	1947-1948
9/253	Reports for philosophy classes 5 items	1948
9/254	Paper on rationalism for History 203 1 item	1948
9/255-257	History I "Foundations of Western Civilization," lecture notes 13 items	undated
9/258	History 3: Term papers 9 items	1947-1948
9/259	Exams taken, including Ph.D. prelims, (questions only) 14 items	1947-1948
9/260	Term paper: "Wages and prices in 17th century New England and Virginia 1 item	1947
Box
9	Spiral bound notebooks
Box/Folder
9/261	History 3A 1 item	undated
9/262	History 113A 1 item	1947
9/263	History 127 1 item	1948
9/264	History 131 1 item	1948
9/265-266	History 208 2 items	1940
9/267	History 216 1 item	1940
9/268-269	Colonial America 2 items	1947
9/270	Diplomatic history of the U.S. 1 item	1948
9/271-273	Greek history 3 items	1948
9/274-275	Medieval culture 2 items	1948
9/276	Medieval & Renaissance history 1 item	undated
9/277	Medieval learning and literature 1 item	undated
9/278	The reform impulse 1 item	undated
9/279	Philosophy 139, American philosophers 1 item	1948
9/280-281	Political Science 165 2 items	1948-1949
9/282-283	History of science 2 items	1948-1949

Series V. Personal and Other Material, 1954-1988Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
9/284	Accident report 1 item	1987
9/285	Book acquisitions 4 items	1969-1972
9/286	Correspondence 65 items	1954-1988
9/287-290	Correspondence: Hugo and Siphra Rolland 180 items	1955-1971
9/291	Hartung's 4 year plan for the university 2 items	1975
9/292	Promissory note 1 item	1962
9/293	Vita 10 items	1966-1980
9/294	Poster: Where is the eagle--gone (Chief Seattle to President Franklin Pierce, 1855) 1 item	undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Historians -- Idaho -- Records and correspondence

Personal Names

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Rolland, Siegfried B., 1918-1989--Archives.

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