Descriptive summary
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creator:
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Saloutos,
Theodore (1910-1980) |
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title:
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Papers |
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dates:
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ca.1920-1980,
n.d. |
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extent:
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26.67 linear
feet (63 manuscript boxes, 1/2 manuscript box, and one file card
box) |
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collection number:
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MS
396 |
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repository:
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Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.
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Administrative
information
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access:
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Open for research
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publication rights:
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Consult Head, Special Collections Department
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preferred
citation:
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Theodore
Saloutos Papers, MS 396, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.
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Biographical note
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Theodore Saloutos
(1910-1980) received his B.A. (1933) from Milwaukee State Teachers
College and his Ph.D. (1940) in History from University of
Wisconsin. Saloutos was a lecturer in the Department of History at
UCLA from 1945, and full professor from 1955 until his retirement.
His primary research interests included agrarian politics and reform
movements, and immigration studies, Greek immigration to the United
States in particular.
Saloutos served as president of the
Agriculture History Society, 1965-1966, and was elected first
president of the Immigration History Society in 1973. He was
appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Agricultural
History in 1957.
Publications
include: Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West, 1900-1939,
1951; They Remember America: The Story of the Repatriated
Greek-Americans, 1956; Farmer Movements in the South,
1865-1933, (co-authored with John Hicks) 1960; The Greeks in
the United States, 1964; Populism: Reaction or Reform?, 1968,
and The American Farmer and the New Deal, (published
posthumously in 1982); as well as numerous articles and book
reviews. |
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Collection description
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This
collection (ca. 1920-1980, n.d.) includes correspondence, writings,
and subject files. Correspondence concerns Saloutos's research and
publications in labor and agrarian history, and grants and teaching
positions. Research notes and drafts of publications are
included.
Saloutos's subject files comprise the
bulk of the collection. These contain notes, correspondence, and
background material (annotated clippings and reports) that Saloutos
gathered in support of his research.
Note: Saloutos's
research and writings on labor and agrarian history are the focus of
this collection. The Saloutos collection at the Immigration
History Research Center at the University of Minnesota holds the
bulk of Saloutos's papers relating to his writing and research in
immigration history. |
Container list
Full finding aid
(pdf format) with container list.
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