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Manuscript Repositories Section meeting in Denver



The Manuscript Repositories Section meeting will be held on Thursday, August 31, from 8-10am (check your small program booklet for room).  In addition to announcements and elections (you have to be a section member to vote in section elections), we will have two speakers:

8am (sharp!): Mark Foster

Dr. Foster has been professor of history at the University of Colorado - Denver for almost thirty years, including several tenures as chairman of the history department.  He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.  His research into the Western experience has been wide ranging and has included studies of urbanization, transportation industries, the environment, industrialist Henry Kaiser, and baseball.  He is the author of 9 books and numerous articles, and was the associate editor of the University of New Mexico Press series of books on the American West, and co-editor of the Temple University Press series of books on technology and urban growth.  He has received numerous grants to support his research and was the recipient of a National Defense Education Act Title IV fellowship.  He is highly respected for his classroom work and was named Teacher of the Year at the University of Colorado in 1983.

9am: Philip Deloria

Dr. Deloria is an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado  Boulder.  He earned a degree in music education from the University of Colorado before changing direction and earning his doctoral degree in American Studies from Yale University.  He is the son of Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux of South Dakota, who is recognized for his award-winning books such as Custer Died For Your Sins and for his Native American activism.  Philip?s first book, Playing Indian, was published in 1998 to critical reviews. One reviewer wrote:

Philip Deloria makes the extremely disturbing argument that appropriation of Native American customs is embedded in the white American psyche. Not since the 1970s bombshell Custer Died for Your Sins by the revered scholar Vine Deloria Jr., Philip's father, has there been a more compelling and startling work on Indian and white relations. Custer shattered longstanding stereotypes about Indians and ripped into federal policies designed to wipe out Native Americans through cultural assimilation. Now Philip Deloria brings his own critique of racial relations to the fore.

With the assistance of a $30,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Deloria took a sabbatical leave in 1999 to begin work on his second book, a history of his ancestors beginning with his late grandfather.

Both professors will discuss current and future research trends in Western United States history, the archival resources that have been most valuable to them as both teachers and scholars, and the primary and secondary sources documenting Western history that archivists should concentrate on collecting, preserving, and making available for research.