Education
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas G. Alexander papers
American Heritage lecture tapes
Contains audio tapes of American Heritage/Social Science 100 lectures from Fall 1979, Winter 1980, and Fall 1981.
R. Lanier Britsch papers
Includes resumes, letters of recommendation, and correspondence while at the university as well as grades, old class rolls, reading lists, and other class material. Education Week and Kennedy Center records are included. Also includes Britsch's dissertation, drafts of other writings, and faculty addresses.
Department of History records
Contains meeting minutes, correspondence, budgets, faculty files, oral histories, historical files, and proposals related to the department. Includes information on faculty-student relations, faculty tenure and advancement, the history of the department, and departmental goals. Also includes biographical research on the life of J. Reuben Clark. Materials date from between 1960 and 1991.
Department of History records
Contains student papers, departmental files, research notes, correspondence, and faculty records. Materials date from between 1960 and 1995.
Department of History student papers
Contains papers submitted to various history professors for History 400 and other upper-division history classes. Among the topics covered are Native Americans, nineteenth-century gold mining in the American West, Mormons, Spanish explorers and missionaries; the American Southwest, Mexico, and African Americans.
Gerald M. Haslam papers
Blair Holmes papers
Contains information from both the personal and professional life of Blair Holmes, and includes journals, correspondence and professional papers documenting his life in Utah, his mission in Austria, and family life from 1932-2016. Also includes diplomas and other ephemera of Holmes and other family members, and transcribed and photocopied volumes of historical documents and newspapers from members of the Victor, Idado community. Dates range from 1932 to 2023.
Christen Jensen papers
Collection includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes, and examinations concerning Brigham Young University transfer credits, awards, faculty meetings, graduate school, Franklin S. Harris, Ernest L. Wilkinson, history, political science, and public administration.
Oral history interview with Blair Holmes
Interview conducted by Richard Poll as part of the Brigham Young University Archives Joint Oral History Project by the Brigham Young University Alumni Association Emeritus Club on September 15, 1988. Holmes describes why he chose to teach history at BYU. He gives an account of his employment with the History Department and describes different aspects of his career including his involvement in the Center for Family and Community History and the Semester Abroad Program.