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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History. Records, 1949-1993.

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Records, 1949-1993.

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The collection includes the following major groups of files: Administrative files, 1968-1993; Faculty files, 1949-1993; Faculty Senate files, 1983-1984, Graduate Student files, 1937-1962; Senior Honors Theses, 1981-1993; Student Financial Aid files, 1979-1990; and Subcommittee on Transfer Admissions files, 1978-1980. The Administrative files include course offerings of the Department, budgets, various programs, and the search committee files for the Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship, 1986-1992. The Faculty files consist of employment and appointment documents of faculty members. The Faculty Senate files include records of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee as well as general correspondence. The Graduate Student files consist of two parts--Ph. D. program, 1944-1960 and M.A. program, 1937-1962. Senior Honors Theses are papers done by students participating in the Senior Honors program from 1981 to 1993.

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of History

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The University Catalogue for 1893 is the first which described a Department of History as an administrative unit in the College. John Bach McMaster was the first Chairman of the Department. A faculty consisting of four professors and one instructor taught courses in American History, American Constitutional History, Economic and Financial History of the United States, Political History of the United States since the Civil War, European History, Renaissance and Reformation, Medieval ...

University of Pennsylvania.

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The Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania was part of the Towne Scientific School until 1920, when a separate School of Fine Arts was established, teaching architecture and other fine arts. Teaching staff and courses of instruction of the Towne Scientific School, Department of Architecture were listed in the Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Fine Arts published its teaching staff, regulations, courses of study, competitons and, in some years, curre...