STEVEN J. KEILLOR:
An Inventory of His Research Files at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Keillor, Steven J. (Steven James), creator. | |
| Title: | Steven J Keillor research files. | |
| Dates: | 1850-2012. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Research notes, photocopied source documents, and other material complied by Minnesota historian Steven J. Keillor in the course of researching and writing several books on Minnesota history, including works relating to the state's political history, its participation in the Civil War, to the University of Minnesota, to rural cooperatives, and to the history of certain local communities. The books were published between 1995 and 2008. | |
| Quantity: | 16.75 cubic feet (17 boxes). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Materials consist of photocopied newpaper and magazine articles, pages from the Congressional Record, and photocopied letters and other documents; some of Keillor's research notes; scattered project-related e-mails between Keillor and others; call slips from libraries and manuscript repositories; and similar items relating to his historical research.
Files contain information pertaining to Basis of belief: a century of drama and debate at the University of Minnesota (Pogo Press, 2008); Cooperative commonwealth: Minnesota's rural co-ops 1859-1939 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2000); Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: the politics of provincial independence (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987); Shaping Minnesota's identity: 150 years of state history (Pogo Press, 2008); Grand Excursion: antebellum America discovers the upper Mississippi (Afton Historical Society Press, 2004); an unpublished history of Burnside township; Knute Nelson and the failure of American politics, 1860-1923 (Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1995); No more gallant a deed: a Civil War memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001); More Than Conquerors: (through him who loved us): a Civil War narrative of the prayer group in Company F, First Minnesota regiment (2006); and files related to the history of Rochester, Minnesota for a book on the city (Cherbo Publications, 2007). The collection includes an index to the files compiled by Keillor.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Steven J. Keillor Research Files. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,861
Processing Information:
Processed by: David B. Peterson, May 2014
Catalog ID number: 990078798320104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
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| 153.I.9.7B | 1 | File inventory prepared by Keillor, 2012. | |||||||||
| Research files for Keillor's books: | |||||||||||
| Basis of belief: a century of drama and debate at the University of Minnesota (2008), 1868-2008: | |||||||||||
| Includes research conducted in the Minnesota Daily files at the University of Minnesota archives as well as at the Minnesota Historical Society archives. There are extensive photocopies and notes from an October 2005 research trip to see University of Minnesota faculty papers at Princeton, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Dartmouth, and the Library of Congress. | |||||||||||
| Set A. 63 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes files related to University of Minnesota President William Watts Folwell, Maria Sanford, President George Vincent, Professors Gabriel Campbell, Newton Winchell, Frederick Woodbridge and Richard Burton, and files on the Fortnightly Scientific Club, Regents minutes (1869-1883), student pranks that led to Folwell’s resignation, early student religious organizations (including YMCA and YWCA), and material on the early history of the law school. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.9.8F | 2 | Set B. 60 folders. | |||||||||
| Includes files related to B. F. Skinner’s career at the University of Minnesota, including the Psychology Department, its IQ tests, and its MMPI personality test, as well as materials regarding Joseph Beach and the English Department, the History and Political Science Departments during World War I, the William Schaper case (1918) and Guy Stanton Ford’s work for the Committee on Public Information in Washington, D.C., and Reverend William Bell Riley and the 1920s debate over the teaching of evolution. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.9.9B | 3 | Set B. 12 folders. | |||||||||
| Set C. 23 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials related to Robert Penn Warren’s career at the University of Minnesota, the University Theater’s production of his All the King’s Men, the Mulford Q. Sibley vs. Milton Rosen debate (1964), Harlow Gale, President Cyrus Northrop, and May 1972 demonstrations at the University. | |||||||||||
| Set D. 20 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to protests at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s, including the involvement of Students for a Democratic Society and the American Studies program, as well as items related to Bob Dylan at the University. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.9.10F | 4 | Set D. 64 folders. | |||||||||
| Set E. 10 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to Centrum, an early 1970s linguistics and literary theory journal, and to the Center for Advanced Study in Language, Style, and Literary Theory that produced it, as well as the University of Minnesota Press series Theory and History of Literature, produced in the 1980s-1990s. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.9.11B | 5 | Set E. 15 folders. | |||||||||
| Set F. 40 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to Herbert Feigl, the Philosophy of Science program, Starke Hathaway, and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). | |||||||||||
| Cooperative commonwealth: Minnesota’s rural co-ops 1859-1939 (2000), 1859-circa 2000: | |||||||||||
| Set G. 10 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to 19th century farmers mutual insurance companies, cooperative creameries, University of Minnesota agricultural education, the county agent system, twentieth century rural telephone cooperatives, and efforts of rival political parties to aid cooperatives. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.9.12F | 6 | Set G. 110 folders. | |||||||||
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| 153.I.9.13B | 7 | Set G. 15 folders. | |||||||||
| Set H. 56 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to formation of Land O’ Lakes, Governor Preus’ advocacy of cooperatives, cooperative innovations of 1920s, Shapiro cooperative marketing associations, the Farm Bureau’s cooperatives, the Twin Cities Milk Producers Association, Nonpartisan League cooperatives, Elmer Benson’s administration, and The Farmer’s advocacy of cooperatives. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.9.14F | 8 | Set I. 82 folders. | |||||||||
| Includes materials relating to the farmers’ elevator movement 1880-1930, consumers’ cooperative stores 1890-1920s, Farmers’ Alliance and local sub-alliances including detailed analysis of minutes and memberships. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.1B | 9 | Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: the politics of provincial independence (1987), 1931-1941, 1987: | |||||||||
| Set J. 35 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes materials relating to rural editors and newspapers in the early twentieth century, history of the Farmer-Labor Party, the Floyd B. Olson administration, Farmer-Labor Party campaigns in 1934 and 1938, the Petersen feud with Elmer Benson, Isolationism and the America First Committee (1939-1941), and the forming of the United Nations. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.2F | 10 | Set J. 11 folders. | |||||||||
| Shaping Minnesota’s identity: 150 years of state history (2008), circa 1850s-2008: | |||||||||||
| Includes several case studies or examples to illustrate themes in the standard narrative of Minnesota history, such as Richfield, Roseville, and Bloomington as examples of post-World-War II suburbs; the 1850s satirical writings of DeWitt Clinton Cooley; Control Data Corporation; the visit of Mikhail Gorbachev (1990); and the Gopher Ordinance Works at Rosemount during World War II. One folder contains a case study. | |||||||||||
| Set K. 50 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.3B | 11 | Set K. 2 folders. | |||||||||
| Set L. 32 folders. | |||||||||||
| Grand Excursion: antebellum America discovers the upper Mississippi (2004), circa 1854, 2002-2004: | |||||||||||
| Set M. 40 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes information on the participants in the Grand Excursion of June 1854, including George Bancroft, Catharine Sedgwick, Millard Fillmore, John Kensett, Benjamin Silliman, and Thurlow Weed. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.4F | 12 | Set M. 58 folders. | |||||||||
| Set N. 33 folders. | |||||||||||
| Includes information on cities and towns the Grand Excursion passed through. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.5B | 13 | Set N. 13 folders. | |||||||||
| Set O. 64 folders. | |||||||||||
| Mainly newspaper coverage of the Excursion, including clippings from Eastern newspapers describing the events of the day of the excursion, the follow-up excursion from Rock Island to St. Louis, and President Fillmore and others’ participation. | |||||||||||
| An unpublished history of Burnside township, undated, 1969-1971, 1998: | |||||||||||
| Set P. 10 folders. | |||||||||||
| Materials relate to Burnside’s Grange, Hamline University (Red Wing, Minn.), Mississippi steamboats, and Jefferson’s ideas on hundreds or wards or townships. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.6F | 14 | Set P. 31 folders. | |||||||||
| Set Q. 31 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.7B | 15 | Set Q. 9 folders. | |||||||||
| Knute Nelson and the failure of American politics, 1860-1923 (1995), 1893-1895, 1995: | |||||||||||
| Set R. 40 folders. | |||||||||||
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| 153.I.10.8F | 16 | Set R. 67 folders. | |||||||||
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| 153.I.10.9B | 17 | Set R. 14 folders. | |||||||||
| No More Gallant A Deed: A Civil War Memoir of the First Minnesota Volunteers (2001) and More Than Conquerors: (through him who loved us): a Civil War narrative of the prayer group in Company F, First Minnesota regiment (2006): | |||||||||||
| Set S. undated, 2001, 2006. 19 folders. | |||||||||||
| Files related to the history of Rochester, Minnesota for a book on the city (2007): | |||||||||||
| Set T. 27 folders. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Authors, American -- Minnesota.
- Biographers -- Minnesota.
- Historians -- Minnesota.
- History -- Research -- Minnesota.
- Organizations:
- United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864). Company F.
- Places:
- Minnesota -- History.
- Minnesota -- Politics and government.
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