Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1957-2004

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ullman, Joan Connelly
Title
Joan Connelly Ullman papers
Dates
1957-2004 (inclusive)
Quantity
5.61 cubic feet (10 boxes and 2 oversized folders, 2 - 3.5 inch floppy disks and 41 - 5.25 inch floppy disks)
Collection Number
4580
Summary
Committee files, correspondence, annotated minutes, research files, and multimedia of a UW Professor of History
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access. No user access copy is currently available for floppy disks but users may obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee by contacting Special Collections.

Request at UW

Languages
English, Spanish

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Joan Connelly Ullman was a professor in the University of Washington’s (UW) Department of History and a historian of modern Spain with a focus on the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (officially known as the XV International Brigade).

Joan was born on July 8, 1929, in New York City to Charles James Connelly and Gladys (Mullen) Connelly. For her undergraduate studies, she attended the University of California, Los Angeles (1947-1948) before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley (1948-1951), where she earned a B.A. in History and English and was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After earning an M.A. in History at Bryn Mawr College in 1953, Joan was commissioned as a foreign services officer with the U.S. Department of State and served as a political assistant for the embassies in Guatemala and Madrid in Spain, namely translating documents and writing political reports. Concluding diplomatic service in 1957, she served as Director of Adult Educational Programs at the International Institute for Girls in Madrid until 1961 before becoming the Dean of Student Life and an Assistant Professor of History at Elbert Covell College of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In June 1963, Joan was awarded a Ph.D. in History from Bryn Mawr College.

In 1966, Joan joined the UW’s Department of History as a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor, when it was rare for women to be hired for this type of position in higher education, becoming an associate professor in 1968 and tenured in 1973. During her time at UW, Harvard University Press published her principal work, The Tragic Week: A Study of Anticlericalism in Spain, 1875-1912, in 1968 and Ariel Press in Barcelona published the Spanish edition, La Semana Trágica: studio sobre las causas socioeconómias del anticlericalismo en España (1898-1912), in 1972. She published numerous articles and translated a selection of works, including Approaches to the History of Spain (1967). She retired as emeritus in 1995, but continued research focusing on conversos, Sephardic Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries. Other notable accomplishments throughout her career included receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) and serving as a Fellow of the American Association of University Women, a trustee of Bryn Mawr College (1984-1990), a board of directors member for the Washington State Jewish History Society, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center (1985), among others.

Joan was married to Edward Louis Ullman in 1967 until his death in 1976 and subsequently was married to Donald Elliot Spickard in 1982 until his death in 2003. On January 30, 2022, Joan passed away in California.

(Sources: In Memoriam: Joan Ullman, University of Washington Department of History and Joan Connelly Ullman, Prabook, accessed April 26, 2023)

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Committee files (Jewish Studies Program Faculty and Staff, Women Studies Review Committee, Latin American Studies Committee, and the Columbian Quincentenary Project Advisory Board), correspondence pertaining to research and professional commitments (including service on the Board of Directors of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society), research files and notes pertaining to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War, departmental records, educational and course materials, newsletters, publications, clippings, and floppy disks.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 3 accessions.

  • Accession No. 4580-001, Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1971-1995
  • Accession No. 4580-002, Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1977-2002
  • Accession No. 4580-003, Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1957-2004

Acquisition Information

Accession No. 4580-001 received from Joan Connelly Ullman in 1995. Accessions No. 4580-002 and 4580-003 received from Glennys Young, UW Department of History, in 2017 and 2019.

Related Materials

Both editions of Ullman's principal work, The Tragic Week: A Study of Anticlericalism in Spain, 1875-1912 (1968) and La Semana Trágica: studio sobre las causas socioeconómias del anticlericalismo en España, 1898-1912 (1972), are held by UW Libraries.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 4580-001: Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1971-1995Return to Top

1.03 cu. ft. (1 box and 1 oversize folder)

Scope and Content: Committee files for Professor Ullman's participation in several University committees including Jewish Studies Program Faculty and Staff, Women Studies Review Committee, Latin American Studies Committee, and the Columbian Quincentenary Project Advisory Board. Also includes correspondence and annotated minutes that relate to Dr. Ullman's service on the Board of Directors of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. Span dates of the papers are 1971-1995.

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Joan Connelly Ullman, 1995-09-12

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Accession
1 4580-001
Maritime Bicentennial 1992
1990-1991
1 4580-001
UW Women Faculty
1972-1995
folder:oversize
OS 4 4580-001
Posters
undated
Box
1 4580-001
UW Branch Campuses Faculty Search Committee
1989-1990
1 4580-001
UW Columbian Quincentenary Project Advisory Board
1988-1992
1 4580-001
UW Jewish Studies Program
1971-1995
1 4580-001
UW Latin American Studies Committee
1969-1993
1 4580-001
UW Women Studies Program Review Committee
1989-1991
1 4580-001
Washington State Jewish Historical Society
1980-1995

Accession No. 4580-002: Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1977-2002Return to Top

2.56 cubic feet (6 boxes) including textual materials, 2 - 3.5 inch floppy disks and 41 - 5.25 inch floppy disks

Scope and Content: Includes research information, especially as related to the Spanish Civil War and Communism, and teaching materials.

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access. No user access copy is currently available for floppy disks but users may obtain a reproduction of the media for a fee by contacting Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Source: Glennys Young, UW Department of History/International Studies, 2017

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Accession
1 4580-002
Canwell Hearings Jan. 27 - Feb. 5 July 19 - 23 1948
1987-1988
1 4580-002
HUAC Hearings in Seattle 1954-1955
1994
1 4580-002
Last Days of Madrid
1979
1 4580-002
Guilty By Association
1998
1 4580-002
Seattle Volunteers (Spanish War)
1986-1991
1 4580-002
University of Washington student volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
1985-1995
1 4580-002
Anna Louise Strong: Progressive and Propagandist by Stephanie Ogle, dissertation drafts and correspondence
3 folders
1981
1 4580-002
Subversive Acctivites Control Board 1950-1972
1998
1 4580-002
Spanish Civil War Syllabi & Handouts
1978-1995
1 4580-002
Communism Class Materials
1990-1991
1 4580-002
PCE & Eurocommunism
1977
1 4580-002
Pilots/Lincoln Project
1992
1 4580-002
Misc Articles
1 4580-002
Veteran's of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Publications
1994-1997
1 4580-002
Peter N Carroll
1994
1 4580-002
UW Project (PHOTOS)
1994
1 4580-002
Osherhoff, Abraham
1997
1 4580-002
Vets/Spanish 'Citizenship'
1996
1 4580-002
VALB & Friends
1983-1995
1 4580-002
American Volunteers in the Spanish War 1936-1939
1993
1 4580-002
Spain & the Seattle Community
1994
1 4580-002
Seattle support of Spanish democracy chronology, 1935-1939
undated
1 4580-002
VALB Washington/Spain Volunteers
2002
1 4580-002
Communist Party USA District 12 Volunteers
1995-1999
1 4580-002
James Kenneth Bourne
undated
1 4580-002
University Communist Party
undated
1 4580-002
Canwell Materials
undated
1 4580-002
Labor/ Workers Alliance of Washington
undated
1 4580-002
Spanish Civil War
1996
1 4580-002
The UK & the Spanish Civil War
undated
2 4580-002
Class Materials
1995
2 4580-002
Communist Party Spain Vol. 1
undated
2 4580-002
Communist Party Spain Vol. 2
undated
2 4580-002
USSR Foreign Policy
undated
2 4580-002
Adolph Ross List
2 - 3.5 inch floppy disks
1993
2 4580-002
Floppy disks relating to course materials
19 - 5.25 inch floppy disks
undated
3-6 4580-002
Research card files
undated
6 4580-002
Floppy disks relating to research files, course materials, correspondence
22 - 5.25 inch floppy disks
approximately 1994
6 4580-002
Photograph of woman (unlabeled)
undated

Accession No. 4580-003: Joan Connelly Ullman papers, 1957-2004Return to Top

2.02 cubic feet (3 boxes, 1 oversized folder)

Scope and Content: Research notes, clippings or copies of newspaper articles, The Volunteer journal issues, correspondence, posters, articles and drafts, lists of names, meeting minutes, flyers, event programs, newsletters, and other paper materials. Namely research, departmental, and event planning materials. Research pertains to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (officially known as the XV International Brigade).

Arrangement: Arranged in 2 series.
  • Series 1, Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    • Subseries A, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    • Subseries B, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
    • Subseries C, Spanish Civil War
    • Subseries D, Galicia Region
    • Subseries E, The Volunteer journal issues
    • Subseries F, Clippings
  • Series 2, UW Department of History
    • Subseries A, Departmental records
    • Subseries B, Faculty and UW Libraries
    • Subseries C, Course materials

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Glennys Young, UW Department of History, 2019

Container(s) Description Dates
Series 1: Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Scope and Content: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade (officially the XV International Brigade) was an international brigade consisting of four battalions and mostly US volunteers to fight against fascism in Spain for the Republic during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). US volunteers involved in the war were and are broadly referred to as veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
1957-2002
Subseries A: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Scope and Content: The Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) was a collective organization established by American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade following their return from Spain, officially forming in 1939, replacing the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade that had served as an advocating group during the war for the brigade. VALB ceased to exist as an independent organization in 2008.
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 4580-003
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Historical Project
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, memos, reports, newsletters, notes, articles, clippings, and bibliographic information. Many materials from Randall B. Smith ("Pete"), a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. More information about Smith can be found on the ALBA website.
1973-1987
1/2 4580-003
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Seattle Correspondence
Scope and Content: Principally correspondence with Robert "Bob" Lee Reed, a member of VALB and an alumnus of the University of Washington (BA Anthropology '65 and MSW '67). Also includes correspondence, photographs, clippings, and meeting minutes. More information about Reed can be found on the ALBA website and in UW Special Collections.
1973-1998
1/3 4580-003
Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade New York Correspondence
Scope and Content: Includes programs, flyers, invitations, correspondence, meeting minutes, outlines, and newsletters.
1975-1997
1/4 4580-003
Steve Nelson
Scope and Content: Includes notes, correspondence, articles, and forms pertaining to the life and work of and UW speaker event with Steve Nelson, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and World War II, former Communist Party USA member, and leader of the VALB. More information about Nelson can be found on the ALBA website.
1983-1993
Subseries B: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Scope and Content: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is a non-profit national organization preserving and disseminating the history of North American involvement during and after the Spanish Civil War, founded by VALB in 1979. ALBA stewards an archive at New York University’s Tamiment Library.
Box/Folder Accession
1/5 4580-003
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (Brandeis)
Scope and Content: Includes institutional materials, clippings, flyers and marketing materials, correspondence, meeting minutes, press releases, newsletters, and conference or event information.
1979-2001
1/6 4580-003
American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Scope and Content: Includes research, notes, correspondence, chronologies, bibliographic information, drafts, collection information for the Bob Reed papers (3512-007), articles, lists of volunteers. The binder formerly housing these materials contained the following text: "American Volunteers, Reed/Ross, ALBA/Brandeis, Classify, Pilots, Ross/Lists used by, Reed Gift, Photos, Source Materials." Tabbed sections include: USA Master List, Adolf Ross 1983-1993, Lists used by Ross, Misc Lists, ALBA/Brandeis, Brandeis, Analysis/Classify, Pilots, Reed Gift, Source Materials, Reed Lists/ie 'Sources', and Photos.
General Notes: Removed from binder.
1981-1995
1/7 4580-003
Adolph Ross Project: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, notes, clippings, drafts, and research materials. Adolph Ross was a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and US Army Air Corps in World War II. He self-published much of the research contained here in 1993 in a document entitled "American Volunteers in the Spanish War, 1936-1939." More information about Ross can be found on the ALBA website.
1993-1996
Subseries C: Spanish Civil War
Box/Folder Accession
1/8 4580-003
US Committee for a Democratic Spain Seattle Chapter
Scope and Content: The US Committee for a Democratic Spain was formerly known as US Committee for the Carabanchel 10. Includes organizational literature and publications, newsletters, and correspondence.
1976-1978
1/9 4580-003
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, archival record information, and institutional and educational materials, namely from the National Archives of Canada.
1977-1993
1/10 4580-003
National Endowment for the Humanities Projects: Southworth Collection on the Spanish Civil War Cataloging Project
Scope and Content: Includes grant applications and proposals that Ullman served as a reviewer for.
1980-1982
1/11 4580-003
Spanish Civil War 50th Anniversary Commemoration at the University of Washington
Scope and Content: Includes event programs, booklets, flyers, notes, correspondence, grant proposals, meeting minutes, memos, press releases, and notes.
General Notes: Two posters separated to the Posters of UW Spanish History Events oversized folder.
1985-1987
1/12 4580-003
Fall of the Generals Conference at the University of Washington
Scope and Content: Includes notes, flyers, event programs, correspondence, forms, receipts, proposals, articles, and course information.
General Notes: Two posters separated to the Posters of UW Spanish History Events oversized folder.
1988-1989
Box
OS Folder 1 4580-003
Posters of UW Spanish History Events
Scope and Content: Posters for the following UW affiliated events or event series: Fifty Years: A Civil War Retrospective (1986), Spain in Seattle: The Culture of Democracy (1989), and Literature & Re-Democratization in Spain & Latin America (1989).
1986-1989
Box/Folder
1/13 4580-003
US Committee for the Carabanchel 10
Scope and Content: Includes a chronology of modern Spanish labor history covering the 1960s-1980s, notes on relevant news clippings, and a copy of a report produced by the US Committee for the Carabanchel 10. Materials received from Sue Johnson.
c. 1980s
1/14 4580-003
Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion Finnish Volunteers
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, notes, and lists of volunteers.
1992-1993
1/15 4580-003
Hugh T. Lovin Thesis and Article
Scope and Content: Includes copies of Hugh T. Lovin's, a professor of history, master's thesis, American Nationals in Spain During the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (1956), and article, "Lyndon B. Johnson, the Subervise Activities Control Board, and the Politics of Anti-Communism" (1982), as well as correspondence between Ullman and Lovin.
1993
1/16 4580-003
Background on Abraham Lincoln Brigade/VALB
Scope and Content: Includes notes pertaining to communism, the Soviet Union, and the Spanish Civil War in addition to excerpts of US House of Representatives, Subcomittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities' public hearings from July 29, 1963, entitled "US Communist Party Assistance to Foreign Communist Parties (Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade)."
General Notes: Previously in a folder titled "Background on ALB/VALB JCU." Unclear what JCU refers to.
1994
1/17 4580-003
Communist Party of Spain Post-Civil War
Scope and Content: The Communist Party of Spain is also known as Partido Comunista de España and abbreviated as PCE, CPE, or CPS. First half of previously bindered subject notes and chronologies created or compiled by Ullman. Tabbed sections include: Chronology General 1939-1945; CPE Summary 1939-1977; CPE Clandestine Network 1939-1950; PSUC (Partit Socialista Unificado de Cataluña, also known as the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia); Exile USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); CPE Exile in Latina America; CPE France 1939-1944; CPE in Exile 1944-1948; Guerrilla Warfare Against Franco.
General Notes: Removed from binder.
undated
1/18 4580-003
Communist Party of Spain Post-Civil War
Scope and Content: Second half of previously bindered subject notes and chronologies created or compiled by Ullman. Tabbed sections include: CPE History 1948-1960; CPE History 1954-1964; 1965 Break (Claudin); CPE 1963-1976; Eurocommunism; Junta Democratica 1974; 1975-1982; 1982-1986; PCPE 1984- (Partido Comunista de los Pueblos de España, also known as Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain); Izquierda Unida (United Left) 1986-; Anguita, Julio 1988-; Federacion Progresista (Progressive Federation).
General Notes: Removed from binder.
undated
Subseries D: Galicia Region
Box/Folder Accession
1/19 4580-003
Materials from Heidi Kelley
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, a CV, articles, and drafts pertaining to Kelley's anthropological research about women in the Galicia region of Spain. Heidi Kelley is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Asheville.
1988-1994
1/20 4580-003
Galicia Research
Scope and Content: Includes notes and articles pertaining to the following thematic topics in relation to the Galicia region of Spain: archives, cities, the economy, nobility, and history of the church
1990s
1/21 4580-003
Galicia Research
Scope and Content: Includes notes pertaining to the following thematic topics in relation to the Galicia region of Spain: monasteries, women, language and literature, and el derecho foral (particular laws pertaining to autonomous regions of Spain).
1990s
Subseries E: The Volunteer journal issues
Scope and Content: The Volunteer is a journal and newsletter founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and presently published an mainted by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. It was previously titled Volunteer for Liberty for its earliest issues until the 1950s. A portion of issues can be accessed online through the ALBA website, The Volunteer website, and UW Libraries.
Box/Folder Accession
1/22 4580-003
Volunteer for Liberty Research and 1946 Issue
Scope and Content: Includes bibliographic information, correspondence, lists of issues, notes, a photocopy of the 1946 Volunteer for Liberty issue, and compilations of text featured in some Volunteer for Liberty issues from 1941 to 1946.
1988-1995
1/23 4580-003
The Volunteer
Scope and Content: Includes a 1975 bulletin from the VALB.
1957-1980
1/24 4580-003
The Volunteer
1981-1990
2/1 4580-003
The Volunteer
1991-1999
2/2 4580-003
The Volunteer
2000-2002
Subseries F: Clippings
Box/Folder Accession
2/3 4580-003
New York Times
Scope and Content: Includes notes about New York Times' articles and clippings pertaining to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War requested from 1936-1939. Photocopies of newspaper articles included cover 1937-1938.
1993
2/4 4580-003
Seattle Times
Scope and Content: Includes notes about Seattle Times' articles and clippings pertaining to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War requested from or discussed covering 1936-1940. Photocopies of newspaper articles included cover 1937-1938.
1993
2/5 4580-003
News from the Thirties
Scope and Content: Includes compiled articles or clippings from The Sunday News (Seattle), The Seattle Star, and The Washington New Dealer pertaining to international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War covering 1937-1939.
1993
Series 2: UW Department of History
1977-2004
Subseries A: Departmental records
Box/Folder Accession
2/6 4580-003
History Department
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, reports, flyers, CVs, academic information and policies, meeting minutes and agendas, forms, newsletters, press releases, faculty review materials, and course information.
1994-1997
2/7 4580-003
History Department
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, conference information, flyers, newsletters, course catalogs, CVs, and academic policies.
1995-1998
3/1 4580-003
History Department
Scope and Content: Includes announcements, correspondence, flyers, reports, proposals, newsletters, directories, clippings, event information, drafts, course time schedules, course catalogs,
1996-2002
Subseries B: Faculty and UW Libraries
Box/Folder Accession
3/2 4580-003
Faculty Library Study
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, forms, policies, flyers, lists of Ullman's library borrowing history, receipts, and newsletters.
1989-2003
3/3 4580-003
Materials from Joe Cohen
Scope and Content: Includes a letter, a published article, and a draft article. Joe Cohen was a professor in the Department of Sociology at UW.
1991
3/4 4580-003
University of Washington Directory
1994-1995
3/5 4580-003
Library Committee Faculty Senate
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, forms, newsletters, policies and standards, drafts, meeting minutes and agendas, library marketing materials, metrics, notes, position paper, and directories.
2001-2003
3/6 4580-003
Library Circulation List
Scope and Content: Includes lists of Ullman's library borrowing history, correspondence, announcements, printed website pages, mailers, and event information.
2003-2004
3/7 4580-003
Materials from Glennys Young
Scope and Content: Includes postcards, clippings pertaining to then current geopolitical and economic issues in Russia, and emails discussing the departure of former UW President Richard McCormick and his affair with a member of his staff. Glennys Young is a professor in the Department of History at UW.
2003
Subseries C: Course materials
Box/Folder Accession
3/8 4580-003
HSTEU 414: Europe since 1945 Course Writing Materials
Scope and Content: Includes a syllabus, instructions, articles, and clippings.
1977-1993
3/9 4580-003
HSTEU 303: Contemporary Europe since 1814
Scope and Content: Includes a syllabus and course readings for the course taught by Raymond Jonas, a professor in the Department of History at UW.
1991
3/10 4580-003
History 303 and 113 Materials
Scope and Content: Includes a syllabus for History 303 Contemporary Europe: Since 1815 and historical summaries and articles used in History 113 covering European history from the 16th to early 20th century
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Military
  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Ullman, Joan Connelly--Archives

Corporate Names

  • University of Washington--Faculty
  • Washington State Jewish Historical Society--History--Sources

Geographical Names

  • Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Sources

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Jewish Studies Program (creator)
    • Northwest Center for Research on Women (creator)
    • University of Washington. Branch Campuses Faculty Search Committee (creator)
    • University of Washington. Columbian Quincentenary Project. Advisory Board (creator)
    • University of Washington. Latin American Studies Committee (creator)
    • University of Washington. University Archives
    • University of Washington. Women Studies Program Review Committee (creator)