US-RPB-of-1uf-r3 Guide to the Donald G. Rohr Professorial Files1947 - 1998(bulk 1961 - 1998) Finding aid prepared by Ben Stewart and Paul Jordan Brown University Library
John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts Box A Brown University Providence, RI, 02912 Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148 Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu
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English 4 linear feet 1947-1998 (bulk 1961-1998) Rohr, Donald G. The Donald G. Rohr Professorial Files contain lecture notes and course materials related to teaching history at Brown. The material dates from 1947 to 1998, with the bulk of the material dating from 1961 to 1998. Biographical/Historical Note

Donald G. Rohr taught modern European history and served as chairman of the history department and associate dean of the faculty. He was a former president of the Committee on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the book club at St. Sebastian’s Church in Providence.

 Collection information

The Donald G. Rohr Professorial Files contain lecture notes and course materials related to teaching history at Brown. The material dates from 1947 to 1998, with the bulk of the material dating from 1961 to 1998. The fourth box of the collection contains a cap and gown.

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Donald G. Rohr Professorial Files, OF-1UF-R3, Brown University Library.

This collection is arranged in one series.

Series 1. History Lectures

Names Brown University--Faculty. Subjects History. Education. History Lectures Series 1 1947-1998 History 1 1 1 [Undated] History 1 1 2 1961-1962 History 1 1 3 1962-1963 History 1 1 4 1983 History 1 1 5 1984 H/1 The Age of Democratic Revolution 1 6 1966 H/1 The Age of Faith 1 7 1968 H/1 The Age of Faith 1 8 1983 H/1 The Ancien Regime -2- 1 9 1978 H/1 Calvin 1 10 1955 H/1 Calvinism 1 11 [Undated] H/1 Capitalism and Material Life 1 12 1978 H/1 Cause of Revolution 1 13 1991 H/1 The Challenge to Authority 1 14 1980 H/1 Church and State in the 16th Century 1 15 [Undated] H/1 The Coming of the Civil War 1 16 1967 H/1 The Coming of the French Revolution 1 17 1977 H/1 Coming of Industrialization 1 18 1983 H/1 The Coming of the Reformation 1 19 1967 H/1 Coming of the Reformation 1 20 1974 H/1 The Coming of the Reformation 1 21 1980 H/1 Conclusions 1 22 1983 H/1 Constitutional Republic, 1795-99 1 23 [Undated] H/1 The Counter Reformation 1 24 [Undated] H/1 The Crisis in England 1 25 1970 H/1 Crisis of Belief 1 26 1971 H/1 Crown vs. Parliament in England (I) 1 27 [Undated] H/1 Crown vs. Parliament in England (II) 1 28 [Undated] History I - Distribution Test 1 29 1961 H/1 DWC - Boccaccio 1 30 1993 H/1 DWC - 800 - 1658 - Syllabus 1 31 [Undated] H/1 DWC Honors Syllabus - Providence College 1 32 1989 H/1 DWC Lecture: Fourteenth Century 1 33 [Undated] H/1 DWC Lecture: New Monarchs 1 34 [Undated] H/1 DWC Lecture: Restoration & Revolution (England) 1 35 1977 H/1 DWC Lecture: Spanish Mystics 1 36 1995 H/1 The English Civil War 1 37 [Undated] H/1 The English Revolution 1 38 [Undated] H/1 The English Revolution 1 39 1975 H/1 The Enlightenment 1 40 1973 H/1 The Enlightenment: Last Phase 1 41 1967 H/1 Erasmus of Rotterdam 1 42 [Undated] H/1 Expansion of Europe 1 43 1973 H/1 Feudalism 1 44 1962 H/1 Film: The Passion of Joan of Arc 1 45 [Undated] H/1 The First Revolution 1 46 1976 H/1 French Revolution - Constitutional Phrase 1784-92 1 47 [Undated] H/1 Glorious Revolution, 1688 1 48 1982 H/1 Imperial France 1 49 [Undated] H/1 Introduction (1966) 1 50 1967-1973 H/1 Introduction 1 51 1974-1975 H/1 Industrialism 1 52 1983 H/1 King and Parliament 1 53 1967-1978 H/1 King and Parliament 1 54 1980 H/1 Life in the Middle Ages 1 55 1964 H/1 Luther 1 56 [Undated] H/1 Manor and Town 1 57 1962 H/1 Medieval Background 1 58 1980 H/1 The Medieval Christianity 1 59 1966 H/1 The Medieval Church 1 60 [Undated] H/1 Medieval Europe 1 61 1971 H/1 Medieval Institutions 1 62 1984 H/1 Medieval Institutions 1 63 1987 H/1 Medieval Religion 1 64 1982 H/1 Medieval Religion 1 65 1984 H/1 Medieval Society 1 66 1962 H/1 Medieval Society 1 67 1982 H/1 Military Dictatorship 1 68 [Undated] H/1 Northern Humanism 1 69 [Undated] H/1 The Protestant Reformation 1 70 [Undated] H/1 Puritanism 1 71 1969 H/1 Puritanism 1 72 1973 H/1 Puritans and Parliamentarians 1 73 1963 H/1 Reason and Revolution 2 1 1972 H/1 Reformation and Counterreform 2 2 [Undated] H/1 The Reformation in England 2 3 [Undated] H/1 The Reign of Terror 2 4 [Undated] H/1 Renaissance Humanism 2 5 1982 H/1 Renaissance in Historical Perspective 2 6 [Undated] H/1 Renaissance in Italy 2 7 1962 H/1 The Renaissance in the North 2 8 [Undated] H/1 Renaissance Revisited 2 9 1977 H/1 Revolution in France 2 10 1983 H/1 The Revolution in Perspective 2 11 1980 H/1 Revival of Europe 2 12 1980 H/1 The Revolutionary Crisis in France 2 13 [Undated] H/1 Revolutionary France 2 14 1982 H/1 Rise of Christian Europe 2 15 1968 H/1 Rise of the Modern State 2 16 [Undated] H/1 Science and Society 2 17 1983 H/1 The Second Revolution and After 2 18 1976 H/1 Stabilization 2 19 1980 H/1 Sun King / Glorious Revolution 2 20 1983 H/1 Sun King and Glorious Revolution 2 21 1985 H/1 Technology and Culture 2 22 1984 H/1 Terror and Reaction 2 23 1973 H/1 Tremors of Revolution 2 24 1980 H/1 Tudor Monarchy and Anglicanism 2 25 [Undated] H/1 Two Lectures: Great Rebellion, Glorious Revolution 2 26 1972 H/1 War and Peace 2 27 1985 H/1 Wars of National Liberation 2 28 1967 H/1 Weber Thesis 2 29 1968 History 2 2 30 1980 History 2 - Suggested Paper Topics 2 31 [Undated] H/1 The Study of History 2 2 32 1975 H/2 Classical Liberalism 2 33 1977 H/2 Cold War 2 34 [Undated] H/2 Coming of the French Revolution 2 35 1977 H/2 Condition of the Working Class in England 2 36 1970 H/2 Consequence of Industrialism 2 37 1977 H/2 End of European History 2 38 1980 H/2 End of the Nineteenth Century 2 39 [Undated] H/2 The Industrial Revolution 2 40 1981 H/2 Liberalism at Midcentury 2 41 1980 H/2 Nineteenth Century Liberalism 2 42 [Undated] H/2 The Protestant Movement 2 43 1973 H/2 The Response to Industrialism 2 44 1979 H/2 Stages of Capitalism 2 45 [Undated] H/2 Totalitarianism 2 46 1979 H/2 Totalitarianism 2 47 1980 H/2 Technology and Human Welfare 2 48 [Undated] H/2 Twilight of Autocracy 2 49 [Undated] H/2 World War II 2 50 1985 H/5 Cromwell 2 51 [Undated] H/5 Cromwell and the Interregnum 2 52 [Undated] H/5 The Glorious Revolution 2 53 [Undated] H/5 Lecture - The Civil Wars 2 54 [Undated] H/5 Lecture: "Parliament Oppression" 2 55 [Undated] H/5 The Popish Plot 2 56 [Undated] H/5 Portents of Revolution 2 57 1958 H/5 The Protectorate 2 58 [Undated] H/5 Restoration Politics 2 59 1958 H/5 The Revolutionary Settlement 2 60 [Undated] H/6 The Rise of Puritanism 2 61 1956 H/5 The Victory of Moderation 2 62 [Undated] H/5 Whigs and Tories 2 63 1957 H/119 The Liberals' Achievements 2 64 [Undated] H/157 Machiavelli 2 65 [Undated] Art Honors 3 1 1989-1990 Background of Industrialism 3 2 1969 Beowulf 3 3 [Undated] Brown Presidents 3 4 1998 Challenge of Peace 3 5 1984 Chapter One: Population 3 6 [Undated] Common Market and American Foreign Policy (Perkins) 3 7 [Undated] The Common Market in the Historical Perspective 3 8 [Undated] The Conduct of Franco-German Relations, 1871-1881, by Donald G. Rohr 3 9 1949 Convoy William Sail (Task Force 14) 3 10 1985 March 18 Courtly Love: Seminar - Andreas, Chrétien 3 11 [Undated] Cruise to Italy and Greece 3 12 1992 Desertion 3 13 1979 DWC Lecture - Sixteenth Century Spain 3 14 1980 Ecumenical Movement 3 15 1989 April 24 Enlightenment 3 16 1983 Europe from the 4th to the 9th Centuries 3 17 1947 The Expansion of Europe 3 18 [Undated] Fabliaux 3 19 [Undated] Feudalism 3 20 [Undated] German Christians and National Socialism 3 21 1962 The Glorious Revolution 3 22 1968 Hegel and Historicism 3 23 [Undated] History for Undergraduates 3 24 [Undated] Holy Roman Empire 3 25 1995 Hostages 3 26 [Undated] How sharper than a serpent's teeth 3 27 [Undated] Industrial England 3 28 1968 Introduction to Medieval History 3 29 [Undated] Isaiah Frank, The European Market: An Analysis of Commercial Policy 3 30 [Undated] Italian Humanism 3 31 [Undated] The Jacobins 3 32 [Undated] The Jacobins and Sans-Culottes 3 33 [Undated] John Carter Brown, 1797-1874 3 34 [Undated] J.C.B. Diary: Vol. IV: 17 Dec., 1823-31 March 1824 3 35 [Undated] John Carter Brown 3 36 1983-2001 Lecture I: Tuscany 3 37 [Undated] Lecture II: Venice 3 38 [Undated] Lecture III: Greece and Pan-Hellenism 3 39 [Undated] Lecture: King and Parliament 3 40 [Undated] Lecture: Medieval Christianity 3 41 1956 Mature Passions of John Carter Brown 3 42 1995 August 30 Marching Orders 3 43 [Undated] Medieval Christianity 3 44 1976 Medieval Ideals of Monarchy 3 45 [Undated] Memorandum: To Provost Stoltz 3 46 [Undated] Misc. Topics 3 47 [Undated] Modes of Thought 51 3 48 [Undated] NROTC 3 49 1983 The New Europe 3 50 1989 Northern Humanism 3 51 1995 PC The American Century 3 52 1991 April 15 PC Background of War 3 53 [Undated] PC Course of the Cold War 3 54 [Undated] PC End of European History 3 55 1987 May 1 PC End of History - Fukuyama 3 56 1990 May 3 PC Europe in Flame, 1848 3 57 1987 February 6 PC Liberal Society 3 58 1991 PC The New Europe 3 59 1987 April 13 PC Decolonization 3 60 1987 April 6 PC Germanic Kingdoms 3 61 1993 PC New Industrial World: Progress and Poverty 3 62 [Undated] PC Origins of Cold War 3 63 1987 April 3 PC The Papacy from Gregory III to Innocent III 3 64 1993 PC Revolt of Youth 3 65 1987 April 29 PC Seminar: Dickens 3 66 1989 PC Western Civilization, 1815 - present 3 67 [Undated] Post Modern 3 68 [Undated] Pre-War Europe (1) 3 69 1968 Pre-War Europe -2- 3 70 [Undated] Professor Dr. Karl Mockl 3 71 1982 June 23 Proposal for a Graduate Seminar in History and the Social Sciences - Draft 3 72 [Undated] Providence College 3 73 1989 Quest of the Holy Grail 3 74 [Undated] R.H. George - Memorial Minute 3 75 [Undated] Reflections on the History and Historiography of Brown University by Crane, Theodore R., class of 1950 3 76 1990 October Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Wars of Rebellion 3 77 [Undated] The Resistance 3 78 1990 Review: Gregory - Nature Lost 3 79 [Undated] The Rise of Capitalism 3 80 [Undated] The Rising Generation 3 81 1996 April 15 Summer Seminar - Test Case for Modernization: Europe - 14th to 18th Centuries 3 82 1973 Talk to Freshmen 3 83 1964 Talk to the Sphinx 3 84 [Undated] Thirteenth-Century Synthesis 3 85 [Undated] Traveling by the book 3 86 [Undated] The Truce and Peace of God 3 87 [Undated] Vernacular Literature; Misc. Titles 3 88 [Undated] War and Peace 3 89 1983 Wars of Religion 3 90 [Undated] Watergate: Interpretations 3 91 1973 May 4 Harvard Academic Cap and Gown 4 Undated