Title: James Leonard Bates Papers, 1918-1998
ID: 15/13/47
Creator: Bates, James Leonard (1919-1998)
Extent: 9.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: By subject, then alphabetical.
Languages: English [eng]
Papers of James Leonard Bates (1919-98), Professor of History (1954-84), including correspondence, reports, publications, manuscripts, course materials, lecture notes, photographs, research materials relating to American history after the Civil War, former students (1961-97), the Watergate scandal (1973-75), the Teapot Dome scandal (1973-75), department business (1954-97), and military service (1942-43).
Significant correspondents include Dewey Grantham, Fletcher Green, Robert Johannsen, Richard Lowitt, Robert Waller, and former students Dan Bartell, Harold Cahalan, Dominic Candeloro, Frank Allan Coombs, John Dagres, George Cullom Davis, Michael Dockrill, Dimitri Lazo, Leonard Schlup, Louis Christian Smith, Avarh Strickland, and Roy Turnbaugh.