YRG/YRG 14/YRG 14B. Records of academic departments and programs of the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences

The records consist of search committee files, course descriptions and curricula, student files, and visiting fellow and faculty files documenting the activities and operations of the Yale American Studies Program. Also included are senior essays and board games created by students in the American Studies Program.

The records consist of correspondence and speeches made at the Yale American Studies Program 50th anniversary reunion held in April 1994. The speeches by alumni, faculty, and administrators document the history of the American Studies at Yale and the personal experiences of individuals in the program. Speakers include former Yale president Howard Lamar and Jean-Christophe Agnew, program chair. The reunion was sponsored by the American Studies Program and the Graduate School.

The materials consist of a time capsule prepared by Yale students for an American Studies course titled Public Memory and Material Culture in America.

The records consist of correspondence, letter books, financial papers, reports, and recommendations documenting the period of planning and construction of the Astronomical Observatory, also known as the Yale University Observatory. Notable contributors to the records include Leonard Waldo, astronomer in charge of the Horological Bureau of the Observatory; Robert Brown, secretary of the Board of Managers; and Hubert A. Newton, director of the observatory.

The records consist of one audiocassette and a program of a Yale Department of African Studies alumni reunion and conference held in 2002.

The records consist of faculty and personnel files, minutes, budgets, chronological files, and reports documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Anthropology.

The records consists of graduate student records maintained by the Yale Department of Anthropology.

The records consist of correspondence, observation books, memoranda, and research notes documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Astronomy. Included are subject files maintained by the directors of the Yale Observatory.

The records consist of graduate student files, fellowship materials, research applications, reports, and accounting books documenting the Yale Department of Biochemistry, which no longer exists as a separate academic unit.

The records consist of correspondence, reports, subject files, and memoranda documenting curriculum, faculty appointments, finance, research, buildings, and students of the Yale Department of Biology. Records concerning the International Society for Cell Biology are also included.

The records consist of office files, correspondence, photographs, and memoranda documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Botany, which no longer exists as a separate academic unit.

The records consists of a scrapbook of text and photographs created by David Edelson and Herbert H. Wottitz, documenting the proceedings of the annual Yale Sterling Chemistry Laboratory Ph.D. party held at the Hotel Duncan (New Haven, Connecticut) on June 14, 1948.

The records consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, and personnel files documenting personnel, teaching appointments, curriculum, the American Numismatic Society, and the Board of Permanent Officers of the Yale Department of Classics.

The records consist of graduate student records maintained by the Yale Department of Classics.

The records consist of reports, correspondence, minutes, and memoranda documenting faculty appointments, committees, budgets, and students in the Yale Department of Economics and the Economic Growth Center. Also included are grade books of Professor Fred R. Fairchild, 1904-1945.

The records consist of administrative files, correspondence, catalogs, minutes, graduate student files, curricula, and printed material documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Education, which no longer exists as a separate academic unit. Included are materials concerning the Summer Seminar in Education (formerly called the Education Conference), and the Yale-Fairfield Study of Elementary Teaching.

The records consist of the remarks of Daniel E. Rosner on the Frontiers of Applied Science lecture/tour series of the Yale Department of Engineering and Applied Science.

The records consist of grade books maintained by Professor John C. Adams, professor in the Yale English Department.

The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, audiotapes, films and videotapes documenting the activities of the Yale Department of French. Topics include faculty appointments, committee agendas, and methods of instruction.

The records consist of correspondence, financial records, and printed material documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Geography, which no longer exists as a separate academic unit.