Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Marguerite Johnston Barnes Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0491
Overview
The bulk of these papers represent Barnes’ writing and journalism career, from her early college years to her lengthy career at the Houston Post newspaper. Included are photocopies of her articles, columns, reviews and editorials, typescripts of her works, photographs, and a small amount of family and biographical materials.
Dates:
1926-2000
Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0144
Abstract:
This collection consists of replies to a survey on suffrage for women conducted by the Men's League for Woman Suffrage of the State of New York, and signed by Thomas W. Hotchkiss, member of the League's Campaign Committee. The League was campaigning for the passage of an amendment to the N.Y. State Constitution on Nov. 2, 1915. Hotchkiss' letter was sent to governors and other officials of states, mostly western, which had already adopted women's suffrage, and was intended to solicit responses...
Dates:
1915
Oveta Culp Hobby papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0459
Overview
The Oveta Culp Hobby Papers detail the public life of Hobby, a Houston-based business, media, military, and political leader during the 1940s-1980s. Mrs. Hobby was the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, chairman of the board of the Houston Post, and wife to Texas Lt. Gov. and later Governor, William P. Hobby. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs,...
Dates:
1817 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1985
Papers of Jefferson Davis documents and reference collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0638
Overview
This collection includes the wealth of documentation identified from across the United States and beyond and assembled for the purpose of the publication of the Papers of Jefferson Davis, a 14-volume set, funded by the NHPRC, and other activities and persons, beginning in the 1960s and running through 2015. Many of the speeches and letters published in the edition, either in full or summarized, are present in this collection as photocopies or on microfilm. Not every document featured in the...
Dates:
1815-2015, bulk 1850-1880; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1880
Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 730
Overview
The holding consists of books (both written and owned by Rabbi Schachtel), unpublished sermons and miscellaneous writings, musical compositions, correspondence, newsclippings, transparencies, photographs (both loose and contained in scrapbooks), and architectural drawings and specifications. Also included are records, cassette tapes and reels containing recordings of Rabbi Schachtel speaking on the radio, and memorabilia related to President Lyndon B. Johnson, such as a telegram laminated to a...
Dates:
circa 1935-2001
Rice University 1990 G-7 Economic Summit Site Director’s Records (Sally McKeag)
Collection
Identifier: UA 0143
Overview
The collection consists of records related to the 1990 Economic Summit, which took place on the Rice University campus. It includes a detailed schedule as well as information about specific meeting locations and the building modifications they required. It was created by Sally McKeag during the time she served as the site director.
Dates:
1990 - 1990
Rice University James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy records
Collection
Identifier: UA 114
Overview
This collection includes records dating from the groundbreaking, founding, and development including but not limited to booklets, correspondence, financial documents, and news clippings of Baker Hall and the Institute for Public Policy.
Dates:
1993 - 2014
Rice University Student Association records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0252
Abstract
The Student Association Records consist of a variety of material related to the Rice University Student Association. These records include meeting minutes, correspondence, memos, constitution and bylaws, financial documents, floor plans, reports, employee contracts, proposals, and student publications. The material begins in 1918 and continues through 2013, with the bulk of the information starting in the early 1960s.
Dates:
1918 - 2013
Rice University Task Force on Faculty and Shared Governance records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0260
Overview
The collection consists of working papers, meeting minutes, committee reports, and website materials generated during the process that created the Faculty Senate as the system of governance at Rice University.
Dates:
2002-2005, 2019
Rice University, University Relations Dept. Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0111
Overview
Correspondence, notes, drafts, memos created and collected by the University Relations Department in support of their role as the University's media relations department for the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, hosted by Rice University.
Dates:
1989 - 1991