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Immigration and Ethnic History Society records

 Collection
Identifier: IHRC1017

DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

Records of the Immigration History Society consist of correspondence and miscellaneous subject files accumulated by Carlton C. Qualey, former IHS treasurer and editor of the Immigration History Newsletter. Additionally, the collection contains the IEHS organizational records generated during the presidency of Philip Gleason. Included are the IEHS by-laws, correspondence, conference-related materials, meeting minutes, treasurer's reports, and reports pertaining to various committees and their projects such as the web syllabi collection, History Day, and IEHS 1997 survey.

Boxes 1-3 contain materials acquired from Carlton C. Qualey, Box 4 contains 2001 accessions from Philip Gleason. Box 5 - 2018 accession from Hasia Diner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1968-2001

Creator

Language of Materials

English

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.

For further information regarding the copyright, please contact the IHRCA.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

The Immigration History Society was organized in 1965 "to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world..." Its membership is comprised mainly of academic specialists in the field of immigration history. It publishes the semi-annual Immigration History Newsletter and organizes sessions on programs for scholarly conferences, among other activities. The Immigration and Ethnic History Society was founded in 1965 as the Immigration History Group. It was renamed the Immigration History Society in 1972, and was subsequently chartered as a non-profit organization in Minnesota. In 1998, the Society, which had traditionally dealt with matters of ethnicity as well as immigration, changed its name to the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. The Society's stated purpose is to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world, including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of origin; to promote the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including regional groups, native Americans and forced immigrants; to promote understanding of the processes of acculturation and of conflict; to furnish through the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter information as to research, organizations, meetings, and publications in the field of immigrant history; to help organize sessions on immigration and ethnicity at meetings of learned societies; and generally to serve the field of immigration-ethnic history with special reference to professional scholarship. The Society numbers about 900 members, approximately evenly divided between individuals, mostly academic scholars, and institutions, mostly libraries and research institutions. The Society publishes the quarterly Journal of American Ethnic History and the semiannual Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter (formerly the Immigration History Newsletter). It holds an annual meeting and dinner in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. It organizes and sponsors sessions on immigration and ethnic subjects at various academic conferences. It also sponsors awards for outstanding books and articles and an award to encourage promising dissertation research. The Society is a member of the Association of North American Immigration Institutions (ANAII). (from the IEHS web site, accessed 2008/12/2, http://www.iehs.org/)

Extent

4 Linear Feet

Abstract

Records of the Immigration History Society consist of correspondence and miscellaneous subject files accumulated by Carlton C. Qualey, former IHS treasurer and editor of the Immigration History Newsletter. Additionally, the collection contains the IEHS organizational records generated during the presidency of Philip Gleason. Included are the IEHS by-laws, correspondence, conference-related materials, meeting minutes, treasurer's reports, and reports pertaining to various committees and their projects such as the web syllabi collection, History Day, and IEHS 1997 survey.

PROVENANCE

Collection acquired from Carlton C. Qualey, former IHS treasurer and editor of the Immigration History Newsletter, in the early 1990s. Additional materials were donated by Philip Gleason, President of the IEHS, in 2001. In 2004, Betty Bergland, Secretary of the IEHS, donated a small set of print materials which were added to IHRCA's print holdings, separate from the manuscript collection.

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Author
IHRC Archives
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding Aid in English

Collecting Area Details

Contact The Immigration History Research Center Archives Collecting Area

Contact:

612-625-4800