Lewis L. Gould papers, 1907-1987

A publication started by Cesar Chavez.

A Marxist publication.

A publication started by the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, a New York City pacifist direct action group that functioned as an affiliate of both the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the War Resisters’ League.

Includes materials from various people, groups, committees, and organizations, including Senator Eugene McCarthy, poet Archibald MacLeish, Martin Luther King, Jr., the “Committee of 100” in support of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Committee of Historians for Senator (Gale) McGee, the National Farm Workers Association, Americans for Democratic Action, the Committee for Nonviolent Action, Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, the League for Mutual Aid, the Mutual Real Estate Investment trust, the Farm Workers Press, the AFL-CIO, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Manuscripts of the following articles: (1) “Diplomats in the Lobby: Franco-American Relations and the Dingley Tariff of 1897,” published in the August 1977 issue of The Historian; (2) “Joseph M. Carey and Wyoming Statehood: Some Unpublished Letters,” published in the October 1965 issue of Annals of Wyoming; (3) “New Perspectives on the Republican Party, 1877-1913,” published in the October 1972 issue of The American Historical Review; (4) “Popular Government and Political Reform, 1890-1920, ” published in the July 1974 issue of Current History; and (5) “Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democratic Politics, 1911-1921,” published in the July 1971 issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Manuscripts of the following book reviews: (1) “Enterprise Denied: Origins of the Decline of American Railroads, 1897-1917, by Albro Martin,” published in the April 1973 issue of Pennsylvania History; (2) “A Life in the Republican Party,” published in the March 1976 issue of Reviews in American History; (3) “Rocky Mountain Constitution Making, 1850-1912, by Gordon Morris Bakken,” published in the Winter 1988 issue of Montana: The Magazine of Western History; and (4) “Tariffs and Markets in the Gilded Age,” published in the June 1974 issue of Reviews in American History.

Includes (1) “First Ladies,” a reprint of an article published in the Autumn 1986 issue of The American Scholar; (2) “First Lady as Catalyst: Lady Bird Johnson and Highway Beautification in the 1960s,” a reprint of an article published in the Summer 1986 issue of Environmental Review; (3) “Modern First Ladies in Historical Perspective,” a reprint of an article published in the Summer 1985 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly; (4) “The Paladin and the Rough Rider: Lord Grey’s Account of a Visit with Theodore Roosevelt in 1911,” a reprint of an article published in a 1984 issue of Durham University Journal; (5) “The Reick Telegram and the Spanish-American War: A Reappraisal,” a reprint of an article published in the April 1979 issue of Diplomatic History; (6) “The University Becomes Politicized: The War with Jim Ferguson, 1915-1918,” a photocopy of an article published in the October 1982 issue of Southwestern Historical Quarterly; (7) "William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power,” a reprint and a photocopy of an article published in a 1978 issue of Ohio History; and (8) “Discovering Texas,” an article in a 1985 issue of the UT-Austin publication Discovery.

Includes (1) “Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator? William McKinley, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippines: A Review Essay,” a reprint of a book review published in the Summer-Autumn 1985 issue of Ohio History; and (2) “Tariffs and Markets in the Gilded Age,” a reprint of a book review published in the June 1974 issue of Reviews in American History.

An unbound copy of The Progressive Era.

Includes two articles in which Gould is mentioned. Other articles deal with UT-Austin libraries, including the search for a library director, the purchase of a Gutenberg Bible, and the acquisition of the Pforzheimer Library of English Literature from H. Ross Perot. Also includes materials regarding a class that Gould taught at UT-Austin on “First Ladies in the Twentieth Century,” an article on William H. Goetzmann and Karen Sloan, professors at UT-Austin, and a clipping regarding a lecture by Karen Gould, Gould’s wife, on the history and background of the Gutenberg Bible.

Includes a letter to Gould regarding whether another author had used one of Gould’s articles as a source.

Letter from New York County Assistant District Attorney Richard H. Kuh to Gould’s father Jack. Jack Gould (1914-1993) had been a prominent reporter and TV and radio critic for the New York Times from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s, and Kuh contacted him to ask if he would be willing to testify for the prosecution in its case against comedian Lenny Bruce. Also included is a photostat of a transcription of one of Bruce’s performances that was the subject of the prosecution. (In the letter, Kuh says that he has enclosed transcripts of two performances.)

For books and book chapters not written by Gould--he may have been editor.

"Robert Walter Speer and Benjamin Barr Lindsey: The Progressive Dilemma in Municipal Government,” by Walter Wood Garnsey, Jr., a student at Yale University. In the acknowledgments, Garnsey thanks Gould for his advice and criticism.

Includes an invitation to celebrate historian and UT-Austin Prof. Joe Bertram Frantz’s fifty years with the University, a parody press release regarding H. Ross Perot’s acquisition of God, and a small poster advertising the George W. Littlefield Lecture Series at UT Austin. Also includes "The City and Westward Expansion: Cheyenne’s Big Horn Expedition of 1870” by Gilbert Stetler, a conference paper dated 1966 and subsequently published in the April 1973 issue of Western Historical Quarterly.