Scope and Contents Member of the UIS history faculty, 2001-2007. Dr. Paludan held the University's first distinguished chair, the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, established in 2001. Before coming to UIS, Paludan taught at University of Kansas, Rutgers University, and University College, Dublin. One of the nation's most preeminent American Civil War historians, Paludan wrote several books on the topic including The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln and Victims, a True Story of the Civil...

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This collection contains the subject files related to President Lacy during his 1978-1980 administration. It contains topics such as the general assembly, degree programs, community colleges, individual programs, and clusters; faculty, staff, and student senates, off-campus instruction, tuition, University Relations, and Federal Programs.

Scope and Contents Papers of Charles Schweighauser: Box 1 includes correspondence, memos, committee minutes, course proposals, lecture notes and examinations. Of particular interest are materials on Halley's comet (1985) and on the Sangamon River Valley. The file also contains a course, lecture series, pamphlet and videotape on Halley's Comet as a natural and historical phenomenom. Box 5: contains "The Sangamon River Valley" a course he taught every summer, (1983-89). It combined ecological, social and...

Scope and Contents Papers of Charles Schweighauser:Box 1 includes correspondence, memos, course proposals, lecture notes, syllabuses and examinations.Box 2 includes correspondence, memos, course proposals, lecture notes, syllabuses and examinations. It also contains information regarding the UIS Observatory. Of particular interest are press releases, articles, and photographs pertaining to the University's telescope specifically designed to accommodate people in wheelchairs (the...

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The Robert Sipe papers consist of course syllabus, outline, minutes of Social Change Committee, two untitled 16mm films on building geodesic domes, and material on the Work/Culture/Society program.

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Papers of Charles B. Strozier include memos, correspondence, minutes and working papers dealing with the History program (curriculum, teacher evaluations, competency based education psychohistory). Boxes # 7 & 8 contain correspondence about final notes and a typescript of Strozier's psychobiography of Lincoln, "Abraham Lincoln and the Meanings of Leadership, A Psychological Study."

Scope and Contents Included in this series are the Public Affairs papers, which are published by the Public Sector Program Evaluation Center. File includes: Paper #1: "Reports on the 1972 Summer Institute on Interracial Education, by Augustine Stevens. Paper #2: "On the need for Central Dispatching on Emergency Ambulance Services in Sangamon County: Final Report. Paper #3: "Bibliography in Program Evaluation" by Dana Barlow. Paper #4: "Program Evaluation in Illinois State Government: a Survey Report." ...