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Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1691

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of Henry Ashby Turner's correspondence with other historians about the controversy surrounding David Abraham's book, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic. A later accession comprises two databases, one containing information concerning foreign workers in the Adam Opel AG plant in Rüsselsheim, Germany, during the World War II era, and the other containing evaluative records concerning documents and articles relating to General Motors' acquisition, ownership, management, loss of effective control, write-off, and reacquisition of Adam Opel AG during the period from 1929 through the early 1950s.

Dates

  • 1982-circa 2000

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. has been transferred to Yale University. These materials may be used for non-commercial purposes without seeking permission from Yale University as the copyright holder. For other uses of these materials, please contact beinecke.library@yale.edu.

Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., 1995 and 2008.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

187 Megabytes

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1691

Abstract

The papers consist of Henry Ashby Turner's correspondence with other historians about the controversy surrounding David Abraham's book, The Collapse of the Weimar Republic. A later accession comprises two databases, one containing information concerning foreign workers in the Adam Opel AG plant in Rüsselsheim, Germany, during the World War II era, and the other containing evaluative records concerning documents and articles relating to General Motors' acquisition, ownership, management, loss of effective control, write-off, and reacquisition of Adam Opel AG during the period from 1929 through the early 1950s.

Biographical / Historical

Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., born in 1932, received his B.A. degree from Washington and Lee University in 1954, and his M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1960) from Princeton. He held the following positions at Yale University: instructor in history, 1958-1961; assistant professor, 1962-1964; associate professor, 1964-1970; professor, 1971-1989; Charles Seymour Professor of History, 1990-1991; and Bass Professor of History, 1991-. Turner was master of Davenport College from 1981-1991. He was a noted scholar of modern Europe, particularly Germany. Turner died on December 17, 2008, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Title
Guide to the Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. Papers
Status
Under Revision
Author
compiled by Richard Szary and William Landis
Date
May 1995
Description rules
Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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