Costigliola selected to edit Kennan Diaries

Noted diplo­matic his­to­rian Frank Costigli­ola of the Uni­ver­sity of Con­necti­cut has been selected to edit the diaries of George F. Ken­nan, the renowned 20th cen­tury diplo­mat, his­to­rian, and pub­lic intel­lec­tual. Pro­fes­sor Costigli­ola holds a Ph.D. from Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity and is the author of the forth­com­ing Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Per­sonal Pol­i­tics Helped Start the Cold War (Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Press, Jan­u­ary 2012), in addi­tion to two other books and more than two dozen arti­cles, includ­ing an essay on Ken­nan that appeared in The Jour­nal of Amer­i­can His­tory. He is also a past pres­i­dent of the Soci­ety for His­to­ri­ans of Amer­i­can For­eign Rela­tions and has held fel­low­ships from the Guggen­heim Foun­da­tion, the NEH, the Nor­we­gian Nobel Insti­tute, and the Insti­tute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Costigliola’s was one of nine sub­mis­sions received for the project which was announced last Decem­ber with ads in the New York Review of Books and The Chron­i­cle of Higher Edu­ca­tion, as well as on numer­ous list­servs, and the Mudd Man­u­script Library blog. He plans a sin­gle vol­ume of approx­i­mately 600–700 pages and projects a com­ple­tion date of Decem­ber 2014. (See Costigliola’s pro­posal .) Noti­fied of the selec­tion, Costigli­ola com­mented, “I am hon­ored by the oppor­tu­nity to make avail­able to Ken­nan buffs, schol­ars of U.S. and inter­na­tional his­tory, and gen­eral read­ers the mag­nif­i­cent, 80-year-long chron­i­cle of this most gifted diplo­mat, pub­lic intel­lec­tual, and writer.”

The Ken­nan Papers are one of the most used col­lec­tions at the Mudd Man­u­script Library and the diaries them­selves were only opened in 2009. Ken­nan was a diplo­mat and a his­to­rian, noted espe­cially for his influ­ence on United States pol­icy towards the Soviet Union dur­ing the Cold War and for his schol­arly exper­tise in the areas of Russ­ian his­tory and for­eign pol­icy. While with the For­eign Ser­vice, Ken­nan advo­cated a pol­icy of “con­tain­ment” that influ­enced United States rela­tions with the Soviet Union through­out the Cold War, and he served in var­i­ous posi­tions in Euro­pean embassies, as well as ambas­sador to the Soviet Union. His career as a his­to­rian was spent at the Insti­tute for Advanced Study, where he con­tin­ued to ana­lyze the his­tory of Rus­sia, the Soviet Union and United States for­eign poli­cies, and for­eign affairs.

University Records Manager Creates Blog

Atten­tion Mudd blog read­ers — Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Records Man­ager Anne Marie Phillips has cre­ated a new blog. Titled Just For The Records and located at http://blogs.princeton.edu/justrecords/, her blog will help Uni­ver­sity depart­ments and offices man­age their records and infor­ma­tion in ways that make work eas­ier, ensure com­pli­ance with Princeton’s infor­ma­tion man­age­ment goals and respon­si­bil­i­ties, and iden­tify records that are of per­ma­nent value to Prince­ton that should be trans­ferred to the Uni­ver­sity Archives.

In the com­ing months, Phillips will also pro­vide updates about records-related news, links to Princeton-specific infor­ma­tion about how to store items, and dis­cus­sions and best prac­tices related to issues like man­ag­ing e-mail, set­ting up fil­ing sys­tems, and more.

If you have ques­tions or sug­ges­tions for the blog, or would like to set up a con­sul­ta­tion regard­ing your office’s needs, you can con­tact Anne Marie Phillips at .

University Records Manager joins the Princeton University Archives staff

On Jan­u­ary 3, 2011 we wel­comed Anne Marie Phillips to the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives staff. Anne Marie is Princeton’s first Uni­ver­sity Records Man­ager, her appoint­ment under­scor­ing Princeton’s com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing its records at a level of qual­ity that will best sup­port the work of the Uni­ver­sity and ensure the com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion of Princeton’s his­tory. Though part of the Archives, Anne Marie’s port­fo­lio is to serve the entire Uni­ver­sity community’s records needs.

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Anne Marie is respon­si­ble for expand­ing and improv­ing Princeton’s cur­rent records man­age­ment pro­gram, which was cre­ated in con­junc­tion with the Office of Gen­eral Coun­sel and other Uni­ver­sity admin­is­tra­tive units, and con­sists of records trans­fer infor­ma­tion and pro­ce­dures, as well as a Gen­eral Records Sched­ule. Records trans­ferred to the Mudd Man­u­script Library are acces­sioned, processed, and made avail­able as a com­po­nent of the Uni­ver­sity Archives func­tion of Mudd. Anne Marie will be updat­ing and expand­ing the Gen­eral Records Sched­ule, cre­at­ing spe­cial­ized sched­ules for records that are unique to var­i­ous admin­is­tra­tive units, and devel­op­ing and pro­vid­ing a con­stel­la­tion of poli­cies, pro­ce­dures, and ser­vices that will make it eas­ier for Uni­ver­sity staff to deter­mine what to do with the records they cre­ate and use as they per­form their jobs.

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Kennan Diaries Project

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The Mudd Man­u­script Library at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity holds the papers of renowned diplo­mat George F. Ken­nan (1904–2005); upon the pass­ing of Ken­nan and his wife, copy­right in the unpub­lished mate­ri­als in those papers passed to Prince­ton. Within the more than 300 boxes that make up the col­lec­tion, twelve boxes con­tain the diaries that Ken­nan kept nearly con­tin­u­ously through­out his adult life (they date from 1924–2004).
As Ken­nan remains promi­nent in schol­arly dis­course, there is great inter­est in these diaries. Sev­eral indi­vid­u­als have expressed an inter­est in pub­lish­ing them in some form. In order to ensure that they receive the ben­e­fit of the best pos­si­ble treat­ment, the Uni­ver­sity is solic­it­ing pro­pos­als from all inter­ested schol­ars and will award one the right of first publication.
The Ken­nan Papers and Diaries
The Papers are described with a high-level of detail within the Mudd Library find­ing aid found here: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/n009w2294 In addi­tion, within the find­ing aid, the diaries are described: http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=MC076&kw=Kennan#series4subseriesC
Ken­nan kept the diaries through­out much of his adult life and they detail his pri­vate thoughts on the issues fac­ing him both pro­fes­sion­ally and per­son­ally. Kennan’s autho­rized biog­ra­pher, John Lewis Gad­dis, has read them all and described their self-critical char­ac­ter as resem­bling those of John Quincy Adams. In the diaries, Ken­nan recorded with whom he was meet­ing, includ­ing brief descrip­tions of the sub­ject of the con­ver­sa­tions, and his pro­fes­sional and per­sonal appoint­ments. The ear­lier diaries, from the period when he was in the diplo­matic ser­vice, con­tain his impres­sions of the coun­tries and the issues they faced. The diaries from his schol­arly career include dis­cus­sions of his research projects and pub­li­ca­tions, his trav­els and speak­ing engage­ments, and his opin­ions on pub­lic pol­icy mat­ters. Per­sonal details are also found through­out each vol­ume, with a sep­a­rate “dream jour­nal” cov­er­ing the period from 1964 to 1977.
Request for proposals
The Library seeks pro­pos­als for the pub­li­ca­tion of the Ken­nan diaries that answers the fol­low­ing questions:
  1. How will your pro­posed pub­li­ca­tion be for­mat­ted? (num­ber of vol­umes, amount of anno­ta­tion, level of index­ing, etc.)
  2. What qual­i­fi­ca­tions do you bring to this project?
  3. What is your plan of work, includ­ing a timetable and strategy?
  4. What pub­lish­ers might you work with? Have you worked with them in the past or have they evinced an inter­est in work­ing with this project?
  5. Why do you want to under­take this project?
  6. If you plan to seek out­side sup­port, what expe­ri­ence do you have with fundraising?
Please include a c.v. for all project participants.
Pro­pos­als should include con­tact infor­ma­tion for pos­si­ble follow-up ques­tions. Word or PDF doc­u­ments sent as email attach­ments can be mailed to . Any supplementary materials that need to be sent via USPS can be mailed to:

Dan Linke
Mudd Man­u­script Library
Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity
65 Olden Street
Prince­ton, NJ 08540

All pro­pos­als will be con­fi­den­tially eval­u­ated by a panel of schol­ars with an under­stand­ing of Kennan’s role in 20th cen­tury diplo­matic history.
Ken­nan Diaries Project Advi­sory Committee
  • John Lewis Gad­dis, Yale Uni­ver­sity, Robert A. Lovett Pro­fes­sor of His­tory and Kennan’s autho­rized biographer.
  • Richard Immer­man, Tem­ple Uni­ver­sity. Edward J. Buthusiem Fam­ily Dis­tin­guished Fac­ulty Fel­low and Depart­ment Chair; Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for the Study of Force and Diplomacy.
  • Daniel J. Linke, Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archivist and Cura­tor of Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers.
  • Paul Miles *99, Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, Lec­turer in History.
  • Bradley Simp­son, Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of His­tory and Inter­na­tional Affairs.
Dead­line for sub­mis­sion is: May 2, 2011 with an antic­i­pated announce­ment by August 1, 2011.

Open House Celebrates Kennedy’s Legacy as President and Temporary Tiger

Behind the scenes tours of Mudd Man­u­script Library offered

On Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 23, Prince­ton University’s See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library will host a spe­cial Open House from 9 a.m. until noon. This event will fea­ture the library’s cur­rent exhibit, John F. Kennedy: From Old Nas­sau to the New Fron­tier, which high­lights objects, pho­tographs, and doc­u­ments cre­ated dur­ing Kennedy’s time as a Prince­ton stu­dent and through­out his polit­i­cal career.
John F. Kennedy: From Old Nas­sau to the New Fron­tier is the first exhibit to fea­ture objects from both major col­lec­tions of the Mudd Library, the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives and the 20th cen­tury Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers. High­lights include his hand­writ­ten appli­ca­tion to Prince­ton, a Jackie Onas­sis let­ter to Adlai Steven­son, and doc­u­ments from the War­ren Commission.
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Everything you wanted to know about the Mudd Manuscript Library but were afraid to ask!

Who was See­ley G. Mudd?
See­ley G. Mudd was a Har­vard edu­cated car­di­ol­o­gist and later dean and pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. Dur­ing his life­time, he con­tributed more than $10 mil­lion to var­i­ous col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties, and posthu­mously estab­lished a $44 mil­lion fund for the devel­op­ment of build­ings for higher edu­ca­tion, known as the See­ley G. Mudd Fund.
When was the Mudd Man­u­script Library built?
Con­struc­tion on the See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library was com­pleted in 1976.
But I’ve been to another See­ley G. Mudd library…
As the Mudd Fund gave grants to many other col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties, there are other facil­i­ties with sim­i­lar names, includ­ing some libraries, such as those at Yale Uni­ver­sity, Duke Uni­ver­sity, Lawrence Uni­ver­sity (Apple­ton, WI), and Pomona Col­lege (Clair­mont, CA).
What kind of col­lec­tions does the Mudd Library hold?
The Mudd Man­u­script Library has two pri­mary col­lec­tions, the Uni­ver­sity Archives and the Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers. For more infor­ma­tion, see: http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/news/faq/sources/whatkind.shtml

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McGovern Processing Project Completed

The See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library has recently com­pleted an 18-month project to process the papers of for­mer Sen­a­tor George S. McGov­ern. The col­lec­tion is espe­cially note­wor­thy for its com­pre­hen­sive doc­u­men­ta­tion of George McGovern’s life­long work on food and nutri­tion issues.
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McGovern’s 1974 re-election
cam­paign to the U.S. Senate.

McGov­ern served as the United States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the First Dis­trict of South Dakota from 1956–1960 and was a mem­ber of the House Com­mit­tee on Agri­cul­ture, where he advo­cated strongly for issues that would char­ac­ter­ize his entire polit­i­cal career, includ­ing rural devel­op­ment, food stamp leg­is­la­tion, and for­eign food aid.

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Exhibition reveals the Tiger inside John F. Kennedy

Mem­o­ra­bilia from John F. Kennedy’s brief stint as a Prince­ton stu­dent and items from his polit­i­cal career– includ­ing a 1935 Christ­mas card depict­ing Kennedy with his Prince­ton room­mates dressed in top hats and suits in homage to Fred Astaire from the motion pic­ture Top Hat (which opened ear­lier that year), and pho­tographs and doc­u­ments from the War­ren Commission’s inves­ti­ga­tion into the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion– are part of a new exhi­bi­tion in the Wiess Lounge at the See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library. Run­ning through Sep­tem­ber 2, 2011, John F. Kennedy: From Old Nas­sau to the New Fron­tier com­mem­o­rates the 50th anniver­sary of the elec­tion of our 35th Pres­i­dent and his Prince­ton connections.

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This exhi­bi­tion show­cases the rarely-seen Prince­ton­ian side of Kennedy, who attended the Uni­ver­sity late in the fall semes­ter of 1935 despite his father’s desire that he attend Har­vard Uni­ver­sity. Unaware of his future in pol­i­tics, Kennedy had declared his intended pro­fes­sion to be “bank­ing” on his appli­ca­tion and stated that the cam­pus envi­ron­ment of Old Nas­sau was “sec­ond to none.” Kennedy was admit­ted to the enter­ing fresh­men class in 1935 and shared a dor­mi­tory with his for­mer Choate high school class­mates Kirk LeMoyne Billings and Ralph Hor­ton, Jr. in #9 Reunion Hall South. How­ever, after a brief few weeks as a mem­ber of the Class of 1939 he left Prince­ton due to health rea­sons and later grad­u­ated from Har­vard with the Class of 1940. The other pres­i­dents to have attended Prince­ton were James Madi­son and Woodrow Wilson.

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From the Archives: Princeton and the Supreme Court

Jour­nal­ists and pun­dits are not­ing that Elena Kagan’s

con­fir­ma­tion to the Supreme Court last week marks the first time three women have served con­cur­rently on

the high court. How­ever, Kagan’s con­fir­ma­tion marks another historic

occa­sion — the first time in 168 years that three Prince­to­ni­ans have shared

the bench.

While 2010’s trio con­sists of Samuel Alito ’ 72, Sonia

Sotomayor ’76, and Elena Kagan ’81, the 1842 trio con­sisted of Smith Thompson

1788, Peter V. Daniel ‘1805, and James Moore Wayne ‘1808.

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Jus­tices Thompson

1788 (Under­grad­u­ate Alumni Records), Daniel ‘1805 (Dick­in­son University’s House Divided Project), and Wayne ‘1808 (Library of Con­gress).

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Lights, Camera, Action!

The See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library has launched a new blog at http://blogs.princeton.edu/reelmudd/, ded­i­cated to its audio­vi­sual hold­ings. Through it, we will announce items that we have posted on Prince­ton University’s two YouTube Chan­nels (http://www.youtube.com/user/princetoncampuslife and http://www.youtube.com/user/princetonacademics). We encour­age view­ers to post com­ments that will con­tribute to our knowl­edge and under­stand­ing of these materials.

In con­junc­tion with the Library’s Preser­va­tion Office and the New Media Cen­ter, the Uni­ver­sity Archives has worked to dig­i­tize over 40 items and these, along with some films from our Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers and addi­tional mate­ri­als, will be posted on a reg­u­lar basis.
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