Lawrence S. Kaplan papers

Special Collections and Archives

Lawrence S. Kaplan papers

Special Collections and Archives

Lawrence S. Kaplan papers

Repository: Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.
Title: Lawrence S. Kaplan papers
Inclusive Date(s): 1946-2003
Bulk Date(s): 1951-1993
Author: Finding aid prepared by Erin Valetine
Creation: Finding aid encoded by Erin Valentine using the OhioLINK EAD Application in 2011
Origination: Kaplan, Lawrence S.
Extent: 10 cubic feet (11 boxes = 10 record storage boxes, 1 phase box)
Physical Location: 10th floor
Finding Aid Identifier: OhKeUSC0123
Abstract: Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan was a well-known historian, specializing in American history and the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This collection consists largely of materials Kaplan gathered while at Kent State University as a faculty member of the History Department, founding creator and director of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, and member of professional historical societies.

Language(s): The records are in English, French, German, Italian

Biography of Lawrence S. Kaplan

Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan was a world-renowned historian, specializing in American diplomatic history, American politico-military history, and the history of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). He received his undergraduate degree at Colby College, and went on to get his master's degree and doctorate at Yale University. Prior to coming to Kent State University, he was a lecturer in American history at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut and a historian for the Department of Defense. Dr. Kaplan began his career at Kent State University in 1954 as an instructor of history. Kaplan was named a University professor in 1977 and in 1979 was named the director of the University's Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies at Kent State University. After his retirement from Kent State University in 1993, he remained director emeritus of the Lemnitzer Center. He was also selected to be a Fulbright lecturer three times: teaching American history at the University of Bonn from 1959-1960; at the University of Louvain from 1964-1965; and lecturing on political science at the University of Nice during the summer of 1965. In addition, he served as a visiting professor at the European University Institute in Florence and was a visiting research scholar at the University of London. While at Kent, Kaplan received numerous awards including the Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1967 and the President's Medal in 1986. He also received the Distinguished Service Award and the Outstanding Teaching Award for the Ohio Academy of History. Kaplan served as a consultant for the Historian's Office of the Defense Department and for the National Archives and was also the author of numerous articles and books dealing with American diplomacy and American history. A member of various professional organizations, including SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Revolution) and SHAFR (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations), Kaplan served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Kent State chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Kaplan died in 2020.

Scope and Content

The Lawrence S. Kaplan papers date from 1916 to 1996, with the bulk of material dated from between 1948 and 1993. Kaplan gathered the majority of these materials while at Kent State University, in his roles as Professor of History, Director of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies and a professional in the field of American history. The collection contains correspondence, research materials, article and book chapter reprints, newspaper and magazine clippings, typescripts for publications and speeches, as well as meeting minutes and supplementary materials. The collection contains a large amount of research material related to the Bricker Amendment. There are also meeting minutes and related materials Kaplan gathered as a member of the University Press Editorial Board.

Statement of Arrangement

The Lawrence S. Kaplan papers are divided into the following series and subseries:

Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Typescripts
Series 3: Publications and Reprint Files
Subseries 3A: Articles and Book Reivews by Kaplan
Subseries 3B: Article Reprints by Other Authors
Subseries 3C: Reprint Files
Series 4: Subject Files
Series 5: Clippings
Series 6: Miscellaneous

Restrictions on Use

This collection contains copies and reproductions of copyrighted materials. All pertinent copyright laws apply to reproduction of published materials in the collection; researchers must obtain permission from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Lawrence S. Kaplan papers. Kent State University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.

Bibliography

The Lawrence S. Kapla papers contains typescripts for book chapters appearing in works Kaplan authored and edited. Below is a list of works for which this collection contains draft typescripts for corresponding chapters. Within the folder-level listing, each typescript belonging to a certain title is identified in the scope and content note for that folder.

Kaplan, Lawrence S. American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.

________. Entangling Alliances with None: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987.

________. The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1999.

________. NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

________. The United States and NATO: The Formative Years. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.

Kaplan, Lawrence S. and Robert W. Clawson. NATO After Thirty Years. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 1981.

NATO After Forty Years. Edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, et. al. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1990.

Subject Headings
The following subjects are found in this collection:

Subjects:
Kaplan, Lawrence S. -- Archives
Treaty-making power -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1789-1809
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1815
United States -- Foreign relations -- Executive agreements
United States -- Military policy
International and municipal law -- United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- History -- 20th century
Kent (Ohio) -- History

Organizations/Corporations:
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Kent State University. Dept. of History
Kent State University Press.
Kent State University. Center for NATO Studies
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Community Studies
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies

Functions:
College teaching
Universities and colleges -- Administration
Authorship
Academic writing

Places:
Kent (Ohio)

Occupations:
College administrators
College teachers
Fulbright scholars
Historians -- United States
History teachers

Material Types:
Administrative records
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence
Instructional materials
Letters (correspondence)
Manuscripts for publication
Minutes
Periodicals
Personal correspondence
Photocopies
Publications
Research notes
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Typescripts

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1: Correspondence, 1957-1993

Scope and Content
This series contains correspondence between Kaplan and other people. Correspondence collected as part of Kaplan's research or integrated with other materials have been left in their original locations within the collection.

Alphabetical, 1968-1993

Physical Description: Correspondence

Box 1 / Folder 1
Correspondence (Alphabetical), A, 1985-1993

Box 1 / Folder 2
Correspondence (Alphabetical), B, 1985-1990

Box 1 / Folder 3
Correspondence (Alphabetical), C, 1986-1990

Box 1 / Folder 4
Correspondence (Alphabetical), D, 1985-1990

Box 1 / Folder 5
Correspondence (Alphabetical), E, 1985-1993

Box 1 / Folder 6
Correspondence (Alphabetical), F, 1985-1992

Box 1 / Folder 7
Correspondence (Alphabetical), G, 1985-1991

Box 1 / Folder 8
Correspondence (Alphabetical), H, 1985-1990

Box 1 / Folder 9
Correspondence (Alphabetical), I, 1984-1989

Box 1 / Folder 10
Correspondence (Alphabetical), K, 1985-1991

Box 1 / Folder 11
Correspondence (Alphabetical), L, 1985-1990

Box 1 / Folder 12
Correspondence (Alphabetical), M, 1985-1991

Box 1 / Folder 13
Correspondence (Alphabetical), N, 1988

Box 1 / Folder 14
Correspondence (Alphabetical), O, 1985-1992

Box 1 / Folder 15
Correspondence (Alphabetical), P, 1986-1990

Box 1 / Folder 16
Correspondence (Alphabetical), R, 1985-1987

Box 1 / Folder 17
Correspondence (Alphabetical), S, 1987-1993

Box 1 / Folder 18
Correspondence (Alphabetical), T, 1984-1988

Box 1 / Folder 19
Correspondence (Alphabetical), V, 1985-1993

Box 1 / Folder 20
Correspondence (Alphabetical), W, 1985-1990

Box 1 / Folder 21
Correspondence (Alphabetical), XYZ, 1985

Box 1 / Folder 22
Correspondence, Personal (Alphabetical), 1968-1969

Chronological, 1957-1969

Box 1 / Folder 23
Correspondence (Chronological), 1963-1964

Box 1 / Folder 24
Correspondence (Chronological), 1965-1967

Box 1 / Folder 25
Correspondence (Chronological), 1967-1968

Box 1 / Folder 26
Correspondence (Chronological), 1968-1969

Box 1 / Folder 27
Student Letters, 1957-1960

Box 1 / Folder 28
Student Letters, 1961-1962

Box 1 / Folder 29
Student Letters, 1963-1967

Series 2: Typescripts, 1982-1995

Physical Description: Typescripts

Scope and Content
The typescripts in this series are those written by Kaplan. When known, publications resulting from or speeches given based on these typescripts have been noted in the scope and content notes for individual typescripts.

Box 1 / Folder 30
American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Draft typescript for Introduction to Entangling Alliances with None: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson, by Lawrence S. Kaplan, xi-xvii. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987.

Box 1 / Folder 31
The Berlin Crisis of 1958-1962: View from the Pentagon: Typescript, speech, March 1994

Scope and Content
Typescript for a speech Kaplan gave at the Conference on Cold War History and Archives, March 21, 1994. Possibly for "Chapter 5: The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962: Views from the Pentagon." In The Long Engagement: NATO's First Fifty Years, by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 77-98. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999.

Box 1 / Folder 32
The Berlin Crisis 1961-1964: Typescript, 1994

Scope and Content
Draft typescript, possibly for "Chapter 5: the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962: Views from the Pentagon," in The Long Engagement: NATO's First Fifty Years by Lawrence S. Kaplan (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999).

Box 1 / Folder 33
Cold Warriors: Wise, Prudent, and Foolish: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Typescript for book review of Melvyn P. Leffler's A Preponderance of Power

Box 1 / Folder 34
The Constitution as a Secret Agreement: Typescript, speech, 1987

Scope and Content
Typescript of speech Kaplan gave at Kent State University Kiva, September 21, 1987.

Box 1 / Folder 35
The Decision for War in 1790: Causes, Consequences & Significance: Typescript, 1987

Box 1 / Folder 36
Founding Fathers on the Founding Fathers: An Historiographical View of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations in the Early National Period: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Draft typescript for "Chapter 13: Founding Fathers on the Founding Fathers: Reflections on Three Generations of American Diplomatic Historians." In Entangling Alliances with None, by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 187-193. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987.

Box 1 / Folder 37
France and the War of 1812: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of "Chapter 10: France and the War of 1812." In Entangling Alliances with None: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Jefferson, by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 143-151. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1987.

Box 1 / Folder 38
Frederick Jackson Turner and Nationalism: Typescript, undated

Box 1 / Folder 39
The Gorbachev Challenge: Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of "Chapter 8: The Gorbachev Challenge." In NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance, by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 145-161. New York: Twayne Publishers, c1994.

Box 1 / Folder 40
The Hidden Consensus: Jefferson and Hamilton on Entangling Alliances, 1778-1800: Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of paper presented at the Eighteenth Century Seminar, University of Maryland, March 11, 1993.

Box 1 / Folder 41
Implications for the United States: Typescript, 1991

Scope and Content
Draft typescript for a paper presented at the European Security: Towards 2000 Conference at the Ridgeway Center, University of Pittsburgh, September 25-26, 1991.

Box 1 / Folder 42
Introduction to SHEAR Foreign Policy Symposium: Typescript, 1994

Box 1 / Folder 43
Introduction to Volume III: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Typescript of Introduction to Volume III for an unidentified manuscript.

Box 1 / Folder 44
The Impact or German Unification on NATO: Typescript, 1991

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of paper presented at SHAFR Conference, George Washington University, June 19-22, 1991.

Box 2 / Folder 1
Jefferson as Anglophile: Sagacity or Senility in the Era of Good Feeling: Typescript, 1991

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of a paper presented at SHEAR meeting on July 27, 1991 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Box 2 / Folder 2
Jefferson and Bonaparte, 1799-1801: A Turning Point in Foreign Policy: Typescript, undated

Box 2 / Folder 3
Jefferson, Hamilton, and Neutrality 1793: Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Final draft typescript of speech for SHEAR Annual Conference, Chapel Hill.

Box 2 / Folder 4
Kennedy, NATO, and the Grand Design: The MFL Debate: Typescript, 1992

Scope and Content
Typescript draft of paper presented at Kennedy and Europe Conference, Florence, October 8-10, 1992.

Box 2 / Folder 5
Latin America in the Johnson Administration: The Impact of Castro's Cuba: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of Chapter XVII for unidentified manuscript.

Box 2 / Folder 6
Lessons from the Past: A Historian Looks at NATO: Typescript, 1991

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of speech presented at the 7th Annual Conference for Directors of Strategic Studies Institutes, Knokke-Heist, Belgium, September 18-20, 1991.

Box 2 / Folder 7
The MAP "-- And Other Parts of the World": Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Typescript draft of Chapter XIX for unidentified manuscript.

Box 2 / Folder 8
The Monroe Doctrine and the Truman Doctrine: The Case of Greece, 1992

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of Presidential Address presented at SHEAR -- 1992.

Box 2 / Folder 9
NATO as a Centripetal Force: the First Forty-Five Years: Typescript, 1994

Scope and Content
Typescript of paper presented at the World War II Conference, Roosevelt Study Center, Middleburg, The Netherlands, June 3, 1994.

Box 2 / Folder 10
NATO at 45: A Counterfactual History, 1994

Scope and Content
Typescript of paper presented at the Conference on NATO After 45 Years, April 7-9, 1994.

Box 2 / Folder 11
[NATO] Bibliographic Essay: Typescript, undated

Box 2 / Folder 12
NATO in the 1990s: An American Perspective: Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of "Chapter 9: NATO in the 1990s." In NATO and the United States: The Enduring Alliance. New York: Twayne Publishers, c1994.

Box 2 / Folder 13
McNamara and the Pentagon, 1961-1965: Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of Chapter XVIII for unidentified manuscript.

Box 2 / Folder 14
Panel Five: NATO Expansion: Historical Aspects: Typescript, 1995

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of paper presented at the 1995 NATO Symposium, National Defense University, Fort McNair, April 24-25, 1995.

Box 2 / Folder 15
Program Packages and Defense Budgets in the Johnson Administration: Typescript, 1993

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of Chapter XX for unidentified manuscript.

Box 2 / Folder 16
Toward the Brussels Pact: America and the "United States of Europe": Typescript, undated

Box 2 / Folder 17
Twilight of the Confederation 1787-1789: Typescript, 1995

Scope and Content
Typescript of paper presented at the SHAFR meeting, Annapolis, June 1995.

Box 2 / Folder 18
The United States and the Atlantic Alliance: The First Generation: Typescript, undated

Box 2 / Folder 19
The U.S. and NATO in the Johnson Years: Typescript, 1992

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of "Chapter 7: The U.S. and NATO in the Johnson Years." In The Long Entanglement: NATO's First Fifty Years, by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 121-148. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999.

Box 2 / Folder 20
The United States and the Atlantic Alliance, undated

Box 2 / Folder 21
The Vietnam War in the Johnson Administration, 1963-1965, Chapter XVI: Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Typescript of Chapter XVI for an unidentified manuscript.

Box 2 / Folder 22
Western Union and European Military Integration, 1948-1950: An American Perspective: Typescript, comments on typescript, 1986

Scope and Content
Typescript of paper originally presented at a conference in Freiburg, December 3 - 6, 1985. Also includes comments and feedback about the article.

Series 3: Publications and Reprint Files, 1916-1992

Sub-series 3A. Publications and Book Reviews by Kaplan, 1952-1989

Box 2 / Folder 23
Article reprints, authored by Kaplan, 1952-1976

Box 2 / Folder 24
Book reviews, authored by Kaplan, 1970-1989

Sub-series 3B. Other Publications, 1937-1986

Box 2 / Folder 25
Article reprints (by author), A-B, 1953-1968

Box 2 / Folder 26
Article reprints (by author), C-D, 1937-1961

Box 2 / Folder 27
Article reprints (by author), F-J, 1941-1966

Box 2 / Folder 28
Article reprints (by author), K-P, 1953-1967

Box 2 / Folder 29
Article reprints (by author), S-W, 1939-1986

Box 2 / Folder 30
Annals of Iowa, Third Series, Volume 39, Number 7, Winter 1969

Box 2 / Folder 31
The Akron Jewish Center Yearbook, 40th Anniversary, 1929-1969, 1969

Box 2 / Folder 32
The Crane Review, Volume VII, No. 2, Winter 1965

Box 2 / Folder 33
International Affairs Council, Idaho State University. The Emergence of the Pacific Rim in World Affairs: The Frank Church Symposium on International Affairs, March 6-8, 1985

Box 2 / Folder 34
Yale Historical Bulletin, 1957-1964

Scope and Content
Includes issue Nos. 15-20 and No. 22

Sub-series 3C. Reprint Files, 1916-1992

Scope and Content
Labeled reprint files in Kaplan's original filing system, these files are photocopies of articles, book chapters, and manuscripts obtained by Kaplan through Inter Library Loan.

Box 3 / Folder 1
Gaddis, John Lewis. "The Rise, Fall & Future of Detente." Foreign Affairs 62:2, pp. 354-37, Winter 1983

Box 3 / Folder 2
Golder, F.A. "Russian Offer of Mediation in the War of 1812." Political Science Quarterly 31:3, pp. 380-391, September 1916

Box 3 / Folder 3
Hacker, Louis Morton. "Western Land Hunger in the War of 1812." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 10:4, pp. 365-39, March 1924

Box 3 / Folder 4
Heisbourg, Francois, "The European-US Alliance: Valedictory Reflections on Continental Drift in the Post-Cold War Era." International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 68:4, pp. 665-678, October 1992

Box 3 / Folder 5
Hess, Gary R. "South and Southeast Asian Responses to Soviet-American Regional Competition": Working draft, undated

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of paper presented at Conference on NATO, The Warsaw Pact, and the Third World

Box 3 / Folder 6
Hoff-Wilson, Joan. "Nixingerism, NATO, and Detente": Typescript, 1991

Scope and Content
Draft typescript of paper, later reprinted in Kaplan, L. S., & Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO Studies, American historians and the Atlantic Alliance (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991).

Box 3 / Folder 7
Holborn, Hajo. "American Foreign Policy and European Integration." World Politics 6:1, pp. 1-30, October 1953

Box 3 / Folder 8
Hutson, James H. "Early American Diplomacy: A Reappraisal." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33, pp. 183-198., July 1976

Box 3 / Folder 9
Jenkins, Roy. "The United States as a Uniting Europe." Atlantic Community Quarterly 15:2, pp. 207-220, Summer 1977

Box 3 / Folder 10
Jordan, Robert S. and Parley W. Newman, Jr. "Secretary General of NATO and Multinational Political Leadership." International Journal 30:4, Regionalism, pp. 732-757, Autumn 1975

Box 3 / Folder 11
Kelly, Alfred H. "The Constitution and Foreign Policy", undated

Scope and Content
Reproduction from unidentified publication

Box 3 / Folder 12
Kennan, George F. "Chapter 15: The X-Article." In Memoirs, 1925-1950, p. 354-356. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967

Box 3 / Folder 13
Kolodziej, Edward A. "France & the Atlantic Alliance: Alliance with a De-Aligning Power." Polity 2:3, pp. 241-266, Spring 1970

Box 3 / Folder 14
Kurtz, Stephen G. "The French Mission of 1799-1800: Concluding Chapter in the Statecraft of John Adams." Political Science Quarterly 80:4, pp. 543-557, December 1965

Box 3 / Folder 15
LaFeber, Walter. "NATO and the Korean War: A Context": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint of typescript for a chapter in American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 33-51. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.

Box 3 / Folder 16
Luraghi, Raimondo. "The Mediterranean", 1990

Scope and Content
Reprint of early typescript for chapter that appears in NATO After Forty Years, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, et. al., 115-122. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1990.

Box 3 / Folder 17
Martin, Lawrence W. "The American Decision to Rearm Germany." American Decision to Rearm Germany, by L.W. Martin, 645-699. Indianapolis: Published for the ICP by Bobbs-Merrill, 1963

Box 3 / Folder 18
May, Ernest R. "The Product of Domestic Politics." In The making of the Monroe doctrine, by E. R. May, 179-182. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975

Box 3 / Folder 19
Merritt, Richard L. "The Emergence of American Nationalism: A Quantitative Approach." In American Quarterly 17:2, Part 2: Supplement, pp. 319-333, Summer 1965

Box 3 / Folder 20
Murphy, Orville T. "The View from Versailles." In Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778, edited by Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, 107-149. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1981

Box 3 / Folder 21
Ninkovich, Frank A. "Double Containment: The Rearmament of Germany."In Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question Since 1945, by Frank A. Ninkovich, 82-105. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988

Box 3 / Folder 22
Ninkovich, "Two Germanys: the Failure of Reunification." In Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question Since 1945, by Frank A. Ninkovich, 107-132. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988

Box 3 / Folder 23
Nussbaum, Frederick L. "American Tobacco and French Politics 1738-1789." Political Science Quarterly 40:4, pp. 497-516, December 1925

Box 3 / Folder 24
Papacosma, S. Victor, "Greece and NATO: Past, Present, and the Future": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint typescript for unidentified manuscript

Box 3 / Folder 25
Pratt, Julius W. "Western Aims in the War of 1812." Mississippi Valley Historical Review, pp. 36-50, June 1925

Box 3 / Folder 26
Reychler, Luc. "Arms Control and Disarmament": Typescript, 1989

Scope and Content
Reprint of early transcript for chapter appearing in NATO After Forty Years, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, et. al., 203-220. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1991.

Box 3 / Folder 27
Rotberg, Robert I. "Africa, the Soviet Union and the West": Typescript, 1984

Scope and Content
Reprint of typescript for unidentified manuscript

Box 3 / Folder 28
Savelle, Max. "Appearance of an American Attitude Toward External Affairs, 1750-1775." American Historical Review 52:4, pp. 655-666, July 1947

Box 3 / Folder 29
Schaetzel, J. Robert. "The Necessary Partnership." Foreign Affairs 44:3, pp. 417-433, April 1966

Box 3 / Folder 30
Schwartz, David N. "NATO's Nuclear Dilemmas: the Prelude to Decision." In NATO's Nuclear Dilemmas, by D. N. Schwartz, 223-251. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1983

Box 3 / Folder 31
Seidelmann, "Europeanization versus Atlanticism: the Search for a European Pillar in the Atlantic Alliance": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint of typescript draft of chapter in NATO After Forty Years, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, et. al., 125-148. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1990.

Box 3 / Folder 32
Smith, Gaddis. "The SS-20 Challenge and Opportunity: the Dual Track Decision and It's Consequences, 1977-1983": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint of draft typescript for chapter in American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 116-134. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.

Box 3 / Folder 33
Stern, Fitz. "Germany in a Semi-Gaullist Europe." Foreign Affairs 58:4, pp. 867-886, Spring 1980

Box 3 / Folder 34
Stinchcombe, William. "Diplomacy of the WXYZ Affair." William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, 34:4, pp. 590-617, October 1977

Box 3 / Folder 35
Tyrrell, Ian. "American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History." American Historical Review 96:4, pp. 1031-1055, October 1991

Box 3 / Folder 36
Van Campen, S.I.P. "The Future of NATO: An Insider's Perspective": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint of draft typescript for chapter in NATO After Forty Years, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, et. al., 247-252. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1990.

Box 3 / Folder 37
Varg, Paul A. "The Advent of Nationalism, 1758-1776." American Quarterly 16:2, Part 1, pp. 169-181, Summer 1964

Box 3 / Folder 38
Webster, C. K. "Castlereagh and the Spanish Colonies." English Historical Review 30:120, pp. 631-645, October 1915

Box 3 / Folder 39
Weinberg, Albert Katz. "Historical Meaning of the American Doctrine of Isolation." American Political Science Review 34:3, pp. 539-547, June 1940

Box 3 / Folder 40
Wells, Samuel F., Jr. "Charles de Gaulle and the French Withdrawal from NATO's Integrated Command": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint of draft typescript for chapter in American Historians and the Atlantic Alliance, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, 81-94. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991.

Box 3 / Folder 41
Wells, Samuel F. "Sounding the Tocsin: NSC 68 and the Soviet Threat." International Security 4:2, pp. 116-158, Autumn 1979

Box 3 / Folder 42
Wiebes, Ces and Bert Zeeman. "Political Consultation During International Crises: Small Powers in NATO": Typescript, undated

Scope and Content
Reprint of draft typescript for chapter in NATO After Forty Years, edited by Lawrence S. Kaplan, et. al., 89-114. Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1990.

Box 3 / Folder 43
Wilkinson, Joe R. "Denmark and NATO: the Problem of a Small State in a Collective Security System." International Organization 10:3, pp. 390-401, August 1956

Box 3 / Folder 44
X, "Sources of Soviet Conduct." Foreign Affairs 25:4, pp. 566-582, July 1947

Series 4: Subject Files, 1947-1996

Box 3 / Folder 45
Achilles, 1949-1976

Box 3 / Folder 46
America: History and Life, American Bibliographical Center (ABC), Clio Press, 1981-1990

Box 3 / Folder 47
American Historical Association (AHA), 94th Annual Meeting, December 28-30, 1979

Box 3 / Folder 48
American History, 4-6 A.D., undated

Box 3 / Folder 49
American Studies Program Committee, 1983

Box 3 / Folder 50
Ball State Review, 1981-1986

Box 3 / Folder 51
Bellagio, 1981-1982

Box 3 / Folder 52
Boczek, Bolesaw A. "NATO and the Warsaw Pact: A Selected Bibliography", September 1983

Box 3 / Folder 53
Bricker Amendment: 1956 Version with commentary by Bud Fensterwald, 1956

Box 3 / Folder 54
Bricker Amendment, 1951-1952

Box 3 / Folder 55
Bricker Amendment: Bills Introduced, 1952-1956

Box 3 / Folder 56
Bricker Amendment: Congressional Record, 1953

Box 3 / Folder 57
Bricker Amendment: Destructive "Saviors" of our Constitution: Manuscripts, typescripts, undated

Box 3 / Folder 58
Bricker Amendment: Department of Defense, Re: Bricker Amendment, 1955-1957

Box 4 / Folder 1
Bricker Amendment: Dulles, John Foster. "Statement by John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, before the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate", April 6, 1953

Box 4 / Folder 2
Bricker Amendment: Dulles, John Foster. "Treaty Making and National Unity": Address, April 11, 1952

Box 4 / Folder 3
Bricker Amendment: Dulles, John Foster. "The Treaty-Making Powers of the Executive", May 2, 1955

Box 4 / Folder 4
Bricker Amendment: Fensterwald, Bernard, Jr.: "Trojan Horse or Don Quixote's Windmill": Manuscript, typescript with comments, published article, undated

Box 4 / Folder 5
Bricker Amendment: General, 1952-1957

Box 4 / Folder 6
Bricker Amendment: General, 1954

Box 4 / Folder 7
Bricker Amendment: (George Gray's Files) 83rd - 2nd Session, 1954

Box 4 / Folder 8
Bricker Amendment: (George Gray's Files) Treatises, Bricker Amendment, 1952

Box 4 / Folder 9
Bricker Amendment: (George Gray's Files) Treatises, Bricker Amendment, 1954

Box 4 / Folder 10
Bricker Amendment: Henning's Views of Dirkson, 1956 (some undated)

Box 4 / Folder 11
Bricker Amendment: Isolationism, 1952-1956

Box 4 / Folder 12
Bricker Amendment: Kefauver Speech, January 28, 1954

Box 4 / Folder 13
Bricker Amendment: Kefauver's views on Durbsen, 1956 (some undated)

Box 4 / Folder 14
Bricker Amendment: May, Joseph. "The Bricker Amendment Challenge, 1951-1957": Typescript, 1978

Scope and Content
Typescript of speech given at American Historical Association, 86. Evolution of the Imperial Presidency: Two Aspects of Executive Authority, December 29, 1978.

Box 4 / Folder 15
Bricker Amendment: Memo from Wiles on Bricker, 1956

Box 4 / Folder 16
Bricker Amendment: Minority Report, 1953

Box 4 / Folder 17
Bricker Amendment: Majority Report, Wiley Analysis of 1953, 1954

Box 4 / Folder 18
Bricker Amendment: Miscellaneous materials relating to, 1953-1964

Box 4 / Folder 19
Bricker Amendment: Miscellaneous publications relating to, 1953-1958

Box 4 / Folder 20
Bricker Amendment: Notes and manuscript drafts for Bricker research, undated

Box 4 / Folder 21
Plaine, Hertzel H., 1978-1979

Scope and Content
Correspondence between Hertzel H. Plaine and Joseph May

Box 4 / Folder 22
Bricker Amendment: Press, 1953

Box 4 / Folder 23
Bricker Amendment: Press, 1954

Box 4 / Folder 24
Bricker Amendment: Press, 1955

Box 5 / Folder 1
Bricker Amendment: Resolution hearings regarding Treatise and Executive hearings, 1953

Box 5 / Folder 2
Bricker Amendment: Statements by Attorney General Brownell, 1951-1953

Box 5 / Folder 3
Bricker Amendment: Statement by Perlman, Justice Department Memo, Deliver to Senate, 1952

Box 5 / Folder 4
Statements by Truman and Eisenhower, 1952-1954

Box 5 / Folder 5
Bricker Amendment: Summaries and Opinions, 1952-1953

Box 5 / Folder 6
Bricker Amendment: Statements and opinions, Committee for the Defense of the Constitution, Against the Bricker Amendment, 1953-1954

Box 5 / Folder 7
Bricker Amendment: Statements and opinions, Daughters of American Revolution, Support of the Bricker Amendment, undated

Box 5 / Folder 8
Bricker Amendment: Statements and opinions, League of Women Voters, Opposition to Bricker Amendment, 1953-1956

Box 5 / Folder 9
Bricker Amendment: Statements and opinions, Pro-Bricker papers, 1953-1954

Box 5 / Folder 10
Bricker Amendment: State Department, February 1953-March 1953

Box 5 / Folder 11
Bricker Amendment: State Department, April-May 1953

Box 5 / Folder 12
Bricker Amendment: State Department, June 1953

Box 5 / Folder 13
Bricker Amendment: State Department, June 1953-December 1953

Box 5 / Folder 14
Bricker Amendment: State Department, 1953-1954

Box 5 / Folder 15
Bricker Amendment: State Department, 1954

Box 5 / Folder 16
Bricker Amendment: Subcommittee Minority Views, Kefauver and Henning together, 1956

Box 5 / Folder 17
Bricker Amendment: Undated memos, etc. from 1954, 1954

Box 5 / Folder 18
Bricker Amendment: Unlabeled material, 1953-1954

Box 6 / Folder 1
Brosio Center, 1984-1987

Box 6 / Folder 2
Canada - NATO, 1987

Box 6 / Folder 3
Candidacy exams, 1972-1992

Box 6 / Folder 4
Center for Peaceful Change, 1985-1986

Box 6 / Folder 5
Clay, Shirley, "Do we know what caused the American Revolution?" lesson plan, 1961

Box 6 / Folder 6
Committees (Miscellaneous), 1974-1986

Box 6 / Folder 7
Conference brochures, 1976-1985

Box 6 / Folder 8
Containment, Turkey and Annapolis, undated

Box 6 / Folder 9
Curriculum vitae [Kaplan, Lawrence], 1987-1996

Box 6 / Folder 10
Diplomatic History, 1987

Box 6 / Folder 11
Europe 1988, 1988

Box 6 / Folder 12
European Union, 1948-1949

Box 6 / Folder 13
Excellence in Teaching Award, Ohio Academy of History (OAH), 1984-1992

Box 6 / Folder 14
Faculty Affairs Committee, Regional Council for International Education (RCIE), 1968-1969

Box 6 / Folder 15
Faculty Senate, 1970

Box 6 / Folder 16
Faculty Senate, Mission Review (1 of 2), 1982

Box 6 / Folder 17
Faculty Senate, Mission Review (2 of 2), 1982-1983

Box 6 / Folder 18
Faculty Senate Committee on Professional Ethics, 1966-1973

Box 6 / Folder 19
Fulbright, 1948

Box 6 / Folder 20
Fulbright, 1949

Box 6 / Folder 21
Graduate Faculty Committee, 1986

Box 6 / Folder 22
Graduate Program Committee, 1967-1969

Box 6 / Folder 23
HIST150/151: History of Civilization, 1954-1955 (some undated)

Box 6 / Folder 24
HIST466B/566B: History of the United States, 1900 to present, 1968 (some undated)

Box 6 / Folder 25
HIST472: Constitutional History of the United States, 1957-1966

Box 6 / Folder 26
Honors College, 1980-1985

Box 7 / Folder 1
Institute for Bibliography and Editing (IBE), 1986-1990

Box 7 / Folder 2
International and Comparative Programs (Clawson and Rubin), 1982-1986

Box 7 / Folder 3
International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1984

Box 7 / Folder 4
Jewish Studies, 1985-1990

Box 7 / Folder 5
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1949-1975

Box 7 / Folder 6
Kent Research Group, 1972-1990

Box 7 / Folder 7
Kent State University, History, 1973-1987

Box 7 / Folder 8
Korean War, 1987

Box 7 / Folder 9
Library Program Advisory Committee, 1985-1987

Box 7 / Folder 10
Library Subcommittee of Education Policies Council (EPC), 1977-1986

Box 7 / Folder 11
Louvain, University of, 1985-1990

Box 7 / Folder 12
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies (1 of 4), 1979-1980

Box 7 / Folder 13
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies (2 of 4), 1979-1981

Box 7 / Folder 14
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies (3 of 4), 1982

Box 7 / Folder 15
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies (4 of 4), 1985-1989

Box 7 / Folder 16
Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Spring Conference, 1980

Box 7 / Folder 17
NATO/Second Generation? Conference, Kent State University Artist Lecture Series and Kent Council on World Affairs, 1968-1969

Box 7 / Folder 18
Malta, 1985-1987

Box 7 / Folder 19
Masters and readings for course materials, 1962-1968

Box 7 / Folder 20
Materials, Crawford Manuscript, 1961-1962 (some undated)

Box 7 / Folder 21
Materials, Crawford Period, 1958, 1966-1967 (some undated)

Box 7 / Folder 22
Materials, France and U.S., 1812-1813, undated

Box 7 / Folder 23
Materials, France and the War of 1812, 1967-1968

Box 8 / Folder 1
Materials, The Franco American "Alliance" of 1812, 1960-1963 (some undated)

Box 8 / Folder 2
Materials, NATO and the U.N., 1949-1976

Box 8 / Folder 3
Monnet, Rohl, Mitter and Clay [Biographies for], December 1993

Box 8 / Folder 4
NATO and Kent State University, 1980

Box 8 / Folder 5
NATO, 1981

Box 8 / Folder 6
NATO Correspondence, January 1982-May 1982

Box 8 / Folder 7
NATO and Dr. Kaplan, 1948-1949 (some undated)

Box 8 / Folder 8
NATO and The Mediterranean Powers and in Historical Perspective (Bellagio, 1983), 1952, 1982-1983

Box 8 / Folder 9
NATO text, drafts and outlines, undated

Box 8 / Folder 10
Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), History of, 1984

Box 8 / Folder 11
Ohio Academy of History (OAH), 1976-1977

Box 8 / Folder 12
Ohio Academy of History (OAH), 1984-1990

Box 8 / Folder 13
Ohio Academy of History (OAH), Nominating Committee, 1982-1985

Box 8 / Folder 14
[Oral Histories, Truman Library], 1976 (some undated)

Box 8 / Folder 15
Personal, 1985-1987

Box 8 / Folder 16
Personal papers and term papers, 1947-1958

Box 8 / Folder 17
Phi Beta Kappa, 1981

Box 8 / Folder 18
RCIE (Regional Council for International Education), 1969

Box 8 / Folder 19
Research notes, 1963-1967

Box 8 / Folder 20
Scholarly Resources Press, 1983-1986

Box 8 / Folder 21
Search Committee for Chairman, 1983

Box 8 / Folder 22
Society of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), 1981

Box 8 / Folder 23
Society of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), 1985-1991

Box 8 / Folder 24
The SHAFR Guide: An Editorial Memorandum, related materials, 1977-1979

Box 9 / Folder 1
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), 1983-1985

Box 9 / Folder 2
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), 1990-1991

Box 9 / Folder 3
Soviet/East European Project, 1989-1990

Box 9 / Folder 4
Speaking engagements, 1986-1990

Box 9 / Folder 5
Towards the Brussels Pact, related materials, 1948-1949

Box 9 / Folder 6
United States Information Agency (USIA), American Participant Program, Belgium, 1984

Box 9 / Folder 7
United States Information Agency (USIA), American Participant Program, Spain, 1985

Box 9 / Folder 8
University Press, 1979-1981

Box 9 / Folder 9
University Press, 1985-1991

Box 9 / Folder 10
University Press, 1987-1989

Box 9 / Folder 11
Warsaw Pact Conference, 1981

Box 9 / Folder 12
Western European Union (WEU), 1949, 1984

Box 9 / Folder 13
Western Union and NATO Meeting, 1948-1952, 1976

Box 9 / Folder 14
Wilson Center, 1981-1990

Box 9 / Folder 15
Woehrmann, Paul. "Breaking the British Bond: The Old Northwest in the American Revolution": Typescript, correspondence, 1982

Scope and Content
Typescript by Paul Woehrmann for an unidentified manuscript and letter from Woehrmann to Kaplan regarding the typescript.

Box 9 / Folder 16
Woehrmann, Paul. "History of the Old Northwest": Typescript, correspondence, 1982

Scope and Content
Typescript by Paul Woehrmann for an unidentified manuscript and correspondence between Woehrmann and Kaplan regarding typescript.

Box 9 / Folder 17
Woehrmann, Paul. "The Old Northwest and Related Lands After the American Revolution": Typescript, correspondence, 1983

Scope and Content
Typescript by Paul Woehrmann for an unidentified manuscript and correspondence between Woehrmann and Kaplan regarding the typescript.

Box 10
Unlabeled material, 1948-1982

Physical Description: 6 folders

Scope and Content
Eight folders of materials originally found in between various folders within the collection. Contains materials of similar type and subject matter as the collection in general, including photocopies of correspondence and reports obtained from other archival institutions.

Arrangement
Each folder represents one section of loose materials found outside folders in the unprocessed collection. Each folder of loose material has been placed in the same order in which the materials were found in the collection.

Series 5: Clippings (Newspaper and periodical), 1971-1986

Box 10
Unlabeled news clippings, 1971-1986

Physical Description: 17 folders

Scope and Content
The majority of clippings come from the New York Times, although there are also clippings from other nationally-known newspapers. The clippings series also contains clippings from magazines, such as The New Yorker, and some individual issues of NATO-related publications.

Series 6: Miscellaneous, 1986 and 1991

Box 11 / Folder 1
Secretary of State Sherrod Brown, Proclamation in Recognition of Dr. Lawrence S. Kaplan, July 1986

Processing Information
Originally placed in non-archival frame; now removed and placed in acid-free folder.

Box 11 / Folder 2
[Framed letter of thanks from Gerald R. Ford to Lawrence S. Kaplan], April 26, 1991

Physical Description: Frame: 13x10.5 inches

Scope and Content
Signed and framed letter from Gerald R. Ford thanking Kaplan for his participation in a panel at a Colloquium held in Ann Arbor.

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