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Reinhold Niebuhr Papers

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Collection SummaryTitle: Reinhold Niebuhr PapersSpan Dates: 1907-1997Bulk Dates: (bulk 1930-1990)ID No.: MSS34751Creator: Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971Extent: 16,250 items ; 70 containers plus 1 oversize ; 28 linear feetLanguage: Collection material in EnglishLocation: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Summary: Theologian, philosopher, and author. Correspondence, speeches, sermons, lectures, articles, book reviews,typescripts of books and articles, family papers, subject files, biographical material, bibliographies, photographs, andmemorabilia reflecting Niebuhr's influence on twentieth-century theology, politics, and society and his efforts to applyreligious and ethical standards to modern social and political problems including labor and race relations.

Selected Search TermsThe following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They aregrouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

PeopleAmiran, David H. K., 1910- --Correspondence.Amiran, Ruth--Correspondence.Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973--Correspondence.Barnes, John, 1917-1992--Correspondence.Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012--Correspondence.Benn, Tony, 1925-2014--Correspondence.Bennett, John C. (John Coleman), 1902-1995--Correspondence.Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997--Correspondence.Bingham, Jonathan B.--Correspondence.Bingham, June, 1919-2007--Correspondence.Bingham, June, 1919-2007. Courage to change: an introduction to the life and thought of Reinhold Niebuhr. 1961.Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945--Correspondence.Carter, Jimmy, 1924- --Correspondence.Clark, Tom C. (Tom Campbell), 1899-1977--Correspondence.Clasper, Paul D.--Correspondence.Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1877-1954--Correspondence.Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978--Correspondence.Cripps, Isobel, 1891-1979--Correspondence.Cripps, Richard Stafford, Sir, 1889-1952--Correspondence.Eddy, Sherwood, 1871-1963--Correspondence.Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969--Correspondence.Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Correspondence.Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945-Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965--Correspondence.Franklin, Sam H.--Correspondence.Gordon, J. King--Correspondence.Gordon, Ruth Anderson--Correspondence.Hall, Ronald O. (Ronald Owen)--Correspondence.Herberg, Will--Correspondence.Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978--Correspondence.Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977--Correspondence.Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005--Correspondence.Kollek, Teddy, 1911-2007--Correspondence.

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Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-2009--Correspondence.MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982--Correspondence.Mailer, Norman--Correspondence.Marty, Martin E., 1928- --Correspondence.McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012--Correspondence.Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978--Correspondence.Morgenthau, Hans J. (Hans Joachim), 1904-1980--Correspondence.Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003--Correspondence.Niebuhr family.Niebuhr, H. Richard (Helmut Richard), 1894-1962--Correspondence.Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971.Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. Man's nature and his communities: essays on the dynamics and enigmas of man's personaland social existence. 1965.Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. Pious and secular America. 1958.Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971. Self and the dramas of history. 1955.Niebuhr, Ursula. Ursula Niebuhr papers.Paton, Alan--Correspondence.Pike, James A. (James Albert), 1913-1969--Correspondence.Press, Samuel D.--Correspondence.Robertson, D. B.--Correspondence.Sacks, Oliver W.--Correspondence.Scarlett, William, 1883-1973--Correspondence.Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1888-1965--Correspondence.Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007--Correspondence.Stansgate, Margaret, 1897-1991--Correspondence.Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965--Correspondence.Stone, Ronald H.--Correspondence.Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965--Correspondence.Van Dusen, Henry P. (Henry Pitney), 1897-1975--Correspondence.Van Husen, Geraldine--Correspondence.Van Husen, Hugh--Correspondence.Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985--Correspondence.Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn), 1890-1971--Correspondence.

OrganizationsAmericans for Democratic Action--Correspondence.CARE Inc.Commission on Freedom of the Press--Correspondence.Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)Evangelical and Reformed Church.Jerusalem Committee.National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America--Correspondence.Socialist Party (Tenn.). Committee on Economic and Racial Justice.U.S. National Commission for UNESCO.Union for Democratic Action--Correspondence.United States. Commission on Cultural Affairs in Occupied Territories.University of Edinburgh.World Council of Churches--Correspondence.

SubjectsAgriculture--Massachusetts--Hillhouse.Ethics.Labor.Political ethics.Race relations.


Religion and social problems.Religion.Social problems.Social service.Socialism.Theology.World politics--20th century.

PlacesEurope--Description and travel.Germany--Description and travel.Tennessee--Economic conditions.Tennessee--Race relations.

TitlesNew republic.New York times.Saturday review of literature.

OccupationsAuthors.Philosophers.Theologians.

Administrative InformationProvenance

The papers of Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian, philosopher, and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Niebuhr in1965. Additions were given by Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr and others from 1965 through 2009.

Processing History

The collection was processed in 1966 and expanded and revised between 1976 and 1981. Additional material wasprocessed in 1994, and the finding aid was revised in 2009. In 2012, the material given between 1995 and 2009 wasprocessed and the finding aid was revised.

Transfers

Most photographs have been transferred to the custody of the Library's Prints and Photographs Division, where they areidentified as part of these papers.

Related Material

Other collections in the Manuscript Division that contain papers of Reinhold Niebuhr include those of Raymond LeslieBuell, the Fund for the Reinhold Niebuhr Award, Hans J. Morgenthau, Paul F. Sifton and Claire G. Sifton, and Charles P.Taft.

Copyright Status

Copyright in the unpublished writings of Reinhold Niebuhr in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custodyof the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.

Access and Restrictions

The papers of Reinhold Niebuhr are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Roomprior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.







Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Reinhold NiebuhrPapers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical NoteDate Event1892, June 21 Born, Wright City, Mo.

1910 Graduated, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill.

1913 Graduated, Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Mo.Ordained minister, German Evangelical Synod of North America

1914 B. D., Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, Conn.

1915 A. M., Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, Conn.

1915-1928 Pastor, Bethel Evangelical Church, Detroit, Mich.

1929 Published Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic. Chicago: Willett, Clark and Colby

1928-1930 Associate professor of Christian ethics and philosophy of religion, Union Theological Seminary,New York, N.Y.

1930-1960 Professor of Christian ethics and philosophy of religion, Union Theological Seminary, New York,N.Y.

1931 Married Ursula Keppel-Compton

1932 Published Moral Man and Immoral Society. New York, N.Y.: C. Scribner's Sons

1939 Delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland; published in1941-1943 as The Nature and Destiny of Man. New York, N.Y.: C. Scribner's Sons. 2 vols.

1940 Resigned from the Socialist Party

1941-1966 Editor, Christianity and Crisis

1947 Co-chairman, Founding Conference of Americans for Democratic Action

1964 Received Presidential Medal of Freedom

1971, June 1 Died, Stockbridge, Mass.

Scope and Content NoteThe papers of Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) span the years 1907-1997, with the bulk of the material concentrated in theperiod from the 1930s through the 1980s. The collection portrays the range of Niebuhr's work and his influence intwentieth-century theology, politics, and society. Included are correspondence , articles, sermons, reviews, lectures,


typescripts of books , biographical material, printed matter, and miscellaneous items. The original collection is arranged inthe following series: Correspondence , Speech, Article, and Book File , Miscellany , June Bingham Correspondence ,Reinhold Niebuhr Correspondence Collected by June Bingham , June Bingham Book File , and William ScarlettCorrespondence . Five separate additions to Niebuhr's papers have been organized and appended to the original collection.These additions are listed and described in the order of their receipt in the Manuscript Division.

Correspondence with a wide array of theologians, political leaders, academicians, literary figures, and diverse communityleaders and organizations comprises a substantial portion of the original collection and Additions I and II . Focusing chieflyon Niebuhr's theological interests and work, much of the material relates his efforts to apply religion and ethical standardsto social and political problems. Two such examples, represented in depth, are the papers concerning the Delta CooperativeFarm Project and the Committee on Economic and Racial Justice. Some of the prominent or frequent correspondentsinclude W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, John C. Bennett, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Tom C. Clark, Henry Sloane Coffin, JamesBryant Conant, Sherwood Eddy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, T. S. Eliot, Felix Frankfurter, Hubert H. Humphrey, James A.Pike, Samuel D. Press, William Scarlett , Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965), PaulTillich, Henry P. Van Dusen, and Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft. Also included is a sizable amount of correspondence withsuch organizations as Americans for Democratic Action, Commission on Freedom of the Press, National Council of theChurches of Christ in the United States of America, Union for Democratic Action, and the World Council of Churches.

There are numerous outlines of sermons delivered by Niebuhr and typescripts of articles ranging in subject matter fromnational and international political affairs to labor and race relations, theology, and economics. There are also typescriptsand related correspondence dealing with book reviews Niebuhr wrote for the New York Times, Saturday Review, NewRepublic, and other publications. Typescripts of three of Niebuhr's books, Man's Nature and His Communities, Pious andSecular America, and The Self and the Dramas of History, are also included.

The collection also contains outlines of class lectures, engagement calendars, bibliographies of Niebuhr's published works,and miscellaneous oversize materials.

Papers presented to the Library by June Bingham relate to her research conducted while preparing a biography of Niebuhr,Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, and include her correspondence as wellas assorted correspondence by Niebuhr that she collected.

Addition III is composed primarily of correspondence , subject files , and writings collected and maintained by UrsulaNiebuhr. Although the papers include a few letters to and from Niebuhr during the last years of his life, the materialconsists chiefly of Ursula Niebuhr's correspondence with academic colleagues, researchers, and family friends. Also ofinterest are letters from her friends and colleagues in England describing conditions there during World War II. Subjectfiles contain research material collected by the Niebuhrs, biographical clippings, information on colleagues, and materialrelated to researchers studying Niebuhr, including a group of letters exchanged with Richard Fox and others relating to his1985 book, Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography. The writings file includes articles, addresses, notes, reviews and othermiscellaneous writings by Niebuhr. Prominent or frequent correspondents include John Barnes, John C. Bennett, IsaiahBerlin, Jimmy Carter, Paul D. Clasper, Isobel Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, T. S. Eliot, Felix Frankfurter, J. KingGordon, Ruth Anderson Gordon, Ronald O. Hall, Will Herberg, Hubert H. Humphrey, Franklin H. Littell, Daniel P.Moynihan, Alan Paton, D. B. Robertson, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), Ronald H. Stone, Hugh Van Husen,Geraldine Van Husen, and E. L. Woodward.

Addition IV also includes a significant group of family correspondence and professional files of Ursula Niebuhr . Lettersexchanged by Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr during the 1930s comprise the bulk of the family correspondence and provideinsight into Niebuhr's political and social activities. Highlights in the correspondence include Niebuhr's descriptions ofactivities relating to his Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh (1939), his travels to Germany with the U.S.Commission on Cultural Affairs in Occupied Territories (1946), and other trips to Europe during the late 1940s. Alsoincluded are letters Niebuhr received from his brother, H. Richard Niebuhr, during the 1930s. In 1991, Ursula Niebuhredited and published much of this correspondence in Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr ([San Francisco]:HarperSanFrancisco). Ursula Niebuhr's professional files include correspondence, articles, essays, newspapers columns,speeches, lectures, prayers, and sermon outlines. The correspondence relates to theological and personal matters andincludes a scattering of letters by her husband. Significant or frequent correspondents include Tony Benn, Isobel Cripps,Sam H. Franklin, George F. Kennan, Teddy Kollek, Archibald MacLeish, Norman Mailer, Martin E. Marty, George S.McGovern, Hans J. Morgenthau, Oliver W. Sacks, Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917-2007), and Margaret Stansgate.


Addition V complements the material in Additions III and IV and is composed of correspondence, subject files, andwritings. Significant correspondents include David Amiran, Ruth Amiran, Jonathan Bingham, June Bingham, TeddyKollek, and Ronald H. Stone. The subject file details Ursula Niebuhr's work with the Jerusalem Committee and study ofChristian liturgy. The writings file contains articles by both Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr. The writings file also contains anoutline entitled "The Significance of Luther's Dfisnce [Defiance] of the Pope" that Reinhold Niebuhr was working on at thetime of his death.

Organization of the PapersThe collection is arranged in twelve series:

• Correspondence, 1918-1961• Speech, Article, and Book File, 1913-1965• Miscellany• June Bingham Correspondence• Reinhold Niebuhr Correspondence Collected by June Bingham• June Bingham Book File• William Scarlett Correspondence, 1958-1971• Addition I, 1914-1976• Addition II, 1930-1972• Addition III, 1907-1992• Addition IV, 1913-1994• Addition V, 1910-1997


Description of SeriesContainer SeriesBOX 1-13 Correspondence, 1918-1961

Letters sent and received.Arranged alphabetically.

BOX 14-23 Speech, Article, and Book File, 1913-1965Speeches, sermons, articles, book reviews, and book manuscripts.Grouped by type of material and arranged alphabetically within groups, with the exception of

sermons which are untitled and undated.

BOX 24-25 MiscellanyBiographical material, class lectures, printed matter, photographs, and other miscellaneous

items or files.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

BOX 26-27 June Bingham CorrespondenceLetters sent and received.Arranged alphabetically except for Bingham's correspondence with Niebuhr that precedes

other correspondence.

BOX 27 Reinhold Niebuhr Correspondence Collected by June BinghamNiebuhr correspondence with persons other than Bingham.Arranged alphabetically.

BOX 28-32 June Bingham Book FilePapers relating to Bingham's biography of Niebuhr, Courage to Change.Organized by type of material.

BOX 33 William Scarlett Correspondence, 1958-1971Letters from Niebuhr to Scarlett and related and attached material.Organized chronologically.

BOX 34-41 Addition I, 1914-1976

BOX 34-37 Subject File, 1928-1976Correspondence, printed matter, and related background material.Arranged alphabetically by topic or name of person or organization.

BOX 38-41 Writings, 1967-1975Articles, books, sermons, reviews, speeches and related materials.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

BOX OV 1 Oversize, 1914-1955Certificates and photograph.Arranged and described according to the series and containers from which the items were

removed.


BOX 42-45 Addition II, 1930-1972

BOX 42 Correspondence, 1930-1972Letters received and a few copies of letters sent.Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization.

BOX 42-45 Writings, 1951-1961Articles, book chapters, reviews, addresses, sermons, prayers, and lecture notes.Arranged by type of material and thereunder alphabetically by title.

BOX 45 MiscellanyBiographical material, clippings, notes, photographs, and printed matter.Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic.

BOX 46-57 Addition III, 1907-1992

BOX 46-54 Correspondence, 1913-1990Letters sent and received.Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization.

BOX 54-56 Subject File, 1916-1992Correspondence, clippings, and printed material.Arranged alphabetically by topic.

BOX 56-57 Writings, 1907-1986Articles, addresses, reviews, and miscellaneous items.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

BOX 58-67 Addition IV, 1913-1994

BOX 58-60 Family Correspondence, 1923-1971Correspondence between Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr and other family members.Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically thereunder.

BOX 60-67 Professional File of Ursula Niebuhr, 1913-1994Correspondence, articles, essays, lectures, speeches, sermons, notes, and administrative

papers regarding her teaching career at Barnard College.Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic and chronologically or alphabetically

thereunder.

BOX 68-70 Addition V, 1990-1997Correspondence, subject files, articles, essays, lectures, and reviews.Grouped by type of material and arranged alphabetically therein.


Container List

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BOX 1-13 Correspondence, 1918-1961Letters sent and received.Arranged alphabetically.

BOX 1 Aldrich, Winthrop W.American Academy of Arts and LettersAmerican Association for Democratic GermanyAmerican Committee for Christian Refugees, Inc.American Committee for Cultural FreedomAmerican Committee on AfricaAmerican Library AssociationAmericans for Democratic ActionArmstrong, Hamilton Fish

BOX 2 "A" miscellaneousBaldwin, RogerBarzun, JacquesBenton, William A.Blake, Eugene CarsonBonhoeffer, DietrichBowles, ChesterBrown, Thatcher M.Brownell, HerbertBundy, McGeorgeBurnett, WhitButler, Pierce"B" miscellaneousCharles Scribner's Sons See Container 11, Scribner's Sons, CharlesChristian ActionChristianity and Society

BOX 3 Clark, Tom C.Coffin, Henry SloaneColumbia University, New York, N.Y.Commission on Freedom of the PressCommission on the Occupied AreasCommittee on Economic and Racial JusticeConant, James BryantCongress of European American AssociationsCooperative for American Remittances to EuropeCouncil on Foreign RelationsCroly, Herbert DavidCutting, Bronson"Ca - Ci" miscellaneous


BOX 4 "Cl - Cu" miscellaneousDelta Cooperative Farm Project, Rochdale, Miss.Douglas, Helen GahaganDu Bois, W. E. B.Dubinsky, DavidDulles, AllenDulles, John FosterDun, Angus"D" miscellaneous

BOX 5 Eddy, SherwoodEden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Mo.Eisenhower, Dwight D.Eliot, T. S. See same series Faber and Faber Ltd.Elliston, Herbert BerridgeElson, Edward L. R.Emergency Rescue CommitteeEuropean Student Service Fund"E" miscellaneousFaber and Faber Ltd.Farrar, JohnFarrell, James T.Fast, HowardFederal Council of the Churches of Christ in AmericaFellowship of Southern ChurchmenFlanders, Ralph E.

BOX 6 Frank, JeromeFrank, Waldo DavidFrankfurter, FelixFreedom House"F" miscellaneousGollancz, VictorGruening, Ernest"G" miscellaneousHall of Fame, New York University, New York, N.Y.Harriman, W. AverellHarvard University, Cambridge, Mass.Harvard University Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.Hase, Hans Christoph vonHaydn, Hiram CollinsHocking, William ErnestHolmes, John HaynesHoover, J. EdgarHughes, Emmet J.Humphrey, Hubert H.

BOX 7 Hutchins, Robert MaynardHuxley, Julian

Correspondence, 1918-1961

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"H" miscellaneousInfantry JournalInstitute for Advanced StudyInternational Rescue Committee"I" miscellaneousJames Nisbet & Co.Javits, Jacob J.Jessup, Philip C."J" miscellaneousKatzenbach, Nicholas deB.Kirchwey, FredaKirk, GraysonKnopf, Alfred A."Ka - Kn" miscellaneous

BOX 8 "Ko - Kw" miscellaneousLehman, Herbert H.Lerner, MaxLink, Henry C.Loyal Americans of German DescentLuce, Henry R."L" miscellaneousMann, ErikaMarkel, LesterMcCloy, John J."Mc" miscellaneousMead, MargaretMillikan, Robert A.Milton, George FortMorgenthau, Hans J.Murphy, FrankMurry, John Middleton"Ma - Me" miscellaneous

BOX 9 "Mi - My" miscellaneousNationNational Committee for Resettlement of Foreign PhysiciansNational Committee for the Rights of the Choolokian FamilyNational Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaNational Mental Health FoundationNew School for Social Research, New York, N.Y.Niebuhr, H. RichardNiemoller, D. Martin"Na - Ni" miscellaneous

BOX 10 "No" miscellaneousOxnam, G. Bromley"O" miscellaneousPhilbrick, Herbert A.


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Pike, James A."P" miscellaneous"Q" miscellaneousRauh, Joseph L.Religious News ServiceReston, JamesRockefeller Foundation"R" miscellaneousSchlesinger, Arthur M. (1917-2007)Schweitzer, Albert

BOX 11 Scribner's Sons, CharlesSedgwick, ElleryShuster, GeorgeSinclair, UptonSobell, HelenSproul, Robert GordonStevenson, Adlai E. (1900-1965)Streibert, Theodore C.Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland"S" miscellaneous

BOX 12 Thomas, NormanThompson, DorothyTillich, Paul"T" miscellaneousUnion for Democratic ActionUnion Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y.U. S. National Commission for UNESCO"U" miscellaneous

BOX 13 Van Dusen, Henry P.Visser't Hooft, Willem Adolph"V" miscellaneousWechsler, JamesWelles, SumnerWhite, William AllenWise, Stephen S.World Council of ChurchesWorld Student Service Fund"W" miscellaneous"Y - Z" miscellaneousUnidentified correspondence

BOX 14-23 Speech, Article, and Book File, 1913-1965Speeches, sermons, articles, book reviews, and book manuscripts.Grouped by type of material and arranged alphabetically within groups, with the exception of

sermons which are untitled and undated.

BOX 14 Speeches


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SermonsBOX 15 Articles

"America: A Nation with Imperial Powers""America's Spiritual Resources for International Cooperation""The Anamoly of European Socialism""An Apology for the Intolerance of Conservatism""The Architecture of American Churches""Are We Drifting Back to Literalism and Individualism?""Asia First and America First""The Asian and African Battlegrounds between Communism and Democracy""Balanced Judgement and the Democratic Life""The Battles We Have Lost Since the Summit Meeting in Geneva""The Beria Confession""Biblical Faith and Socialism""The Cardinal and Communism""The Cause and Cure of the American Psychosis""China and the United Nations""The Christian Faith and the Christian Church""A Christian Political Party""Christianity and Darwin's Revolution""Christianity and the Moral Law""The Church as a Community of Grace""The Church Versus the Gospel""The Civil Rights Issue and the Democratic Convention""Clericalism and Anti-Clericalism""Co-Existence and Semantics""Comments on the Religious Assumptions of Adam Smith and Karl Marx""The Concept of 'Order of Creation' in Emil Brunner's Social Ethic""Conservatism and Liberalism in America""Coronation Afterthoughts on Poetry and Politics""The Cult of the Automobile""The Cultural Crisis of Our Age""Das Rassenproblem in Amerika""Democracy and Foreign Policy""Democracy and the Party Spirit""The Efficacy and Limits of Military Power""The Eisenhower Doctrine: Everything in General and Nothing in Particular""The Eisenhower Myth""Eisenhower's Theory of Power and Morals in Politics""The End of an Era in Labor Relations""The English and the Germans""The Ethics of Loyalty""Europe's and Asia's Anti-Americanism""Fascism and the Middle Classes""The Fate of European Socialism""Freedom"

Speech, Article, and Book File, 1913-1965

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"The French Don't Like Us""Freud and the Problem of the Relation of Creativity and Self-Concern""The Frustrations of a Powerful Nation""General De Gaulle and France"

BOX 16 "God in History""The God Who Has Become the Devil""Is God Good Or Is He Omnipotent?""Is Good an Obstacle to the Better?""Higher Education in America""History As Drama""Human Destiny and History""The Hydrogen Bomb""The Illusions about the Efficacy of Summit Meetings""The Impulse for Perfection and the Impulse for Community""India, America, and the East-West Struggle""The Intellectuals, the Administration and the Marxist Heresy""The Irony of the Struggle between Communism and Democracy""The Irrational in Politics""Is Historical Analogy Possible?""Kinsey and the Moral Problem of Man's Sexual Life""Khrushchev and the Cold War""Lewis Mumford""Liberty as Necessity and Luxury""Love and Justice""Love and Law in Protestantism and Catholicism""The Merger of the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. and the Social History behind It""The Middle East""The Moral and Political Philosophy behind the 'Right to Work' Laws""Moral and Religious Problems in an Economy of Abundance""The Moral and Spiritual Content of the Atlantic Community""The Moral Issue in International Relations""Moral Re-Armament""Mystery and Meaning""The National Interest and International Responsibility""New Wine in Old Bottles and Old Wine in New Bottles""Observations on 'The Chinese Wall'""On Being Judged by an Evil Judge""Our Stake in the State of Israel""Patriotism and Altruism""The Phenomenon of President Eisenhower""Portrait of an Idealist""The President Will Run""Preventive War""The Problem of Man's Finiteness, Freedom and Self-Concern""The Problem of Nuclear Warfare""A Proposal for Billy Graham"


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"Prospects of the Christian Gospel in Future America""The Real Question about Religion""The Relation of European to American Culture""Religion and Poetry""Religion and the Freedom of the Mind""Religion's Limitations""Religiosity Versus the Christian Gospel""The Religious Assumptions of Adam Smith""The Religious Assumptions of Karl Marx""The Religious Traditions of Our Nation and the Problems of a Technical Civilization in a

Nuclear Age""The Renewal of Religious Faith in America"

BOX 17 "The Republican Record""The Revival of Religion in America""The Rise in American Prestige""The Rising Tide of Color""Russia and America""The Secularism and Piety of America""The Self""Sin""The Suez Crisis and the Post-Stalin Era""The Specialist""The Task of American Liberalism""The Tasks of Liberalism in America""The Teamsters and the Future of Unionism""Theology and Political Thought in the Western World""A Third of a Century at Union Seminary""Tolerance""The Ultimate Validity and the Ideological Distortions of Moral Concepts in International

Politics""The Union of the Congregational and Evangelical and Reformed Churches""The United Nations and the World Community""The United Nations Is Not a World Government""The Unpredictable Emergencies of History""The Value of a Constitutionally Pegged Ideal""The War and Religion""The West and Asia""What to Do About Insults to Others""The World I Would Like to Live In"Untitled articles

ReviewsDaniel Bell, Work and Its DiscontentsIsaiah Berlin, The Hedgehog and the FoxIsaiah Berlin, Historical InevitabilityJim Bishop, The Day Christ DiedDaniel J. Boorstin, The Genius of American PoliticsGuiseppe Antonio Borgese, Foundations of the World Republic


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Martin Buber, Pointing the WayJames MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the FoxHerbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and WarAlgernon Cecil, A House in Bryanston SquareJames Collins, The Mind of KierkegaardJ. Harry Cotton, Royce and the Human SelfNorman Cousins, Who Speaks for Man?M. C. D'Arcy, The Meaning and Matter of HistoryCharles Galton Darwin, The Next Million YearsA. Powell Davies, The Urge to PersecuteElmer Davis, Two Minutes to MidnightCharles A. Fecher, The Philosophy of Jacques MaritainEtienne Gilson, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle AgesNahum N. Glatzer, Franz RosenzweigJ. Edgar Goodspeed, As I RememberRobert Graves and Joshua Podro, The Nazarene Gospel RestoredMarjorie Grene, Heidegger; Arthur Cohen,

Martin Buber; and Ian W. Alexander, BergsonBOX 18 Carleton J. H. Hayes, Christianity and Western Civilization

Karl Heim, The Transformation of the Scientific World ViewWill Herberg, Protestant-Catholic-JewAbraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of ManGilbert Highet, Man's Unconquerable MindWilliam Ernest Hocking, The Strength of Men and NationsJohannes Hohlenberg, Soren KierkegaardSidney Hook, Heresy, Yes - Conspiracy, NoSidney Hook (ed.), Philosophers at WorkTrevor Huddleston, Naught for Your ComfortKarl Jaspers, The Future of MankindDouglas Jerrold, The Lie about the WestB. B. Keet, Whither South AfricaMurray Kempton, Part of Our TimeArthur Koestler, The Invisible WritingArthur Koestler, Reflections on HangingJoseph Wood Krutch, The Measure of ManUmphrey Lee, God's HorsemanLeo Lerner, The Itch of OpinionWalter Lippmann, The Public PhilosophyPerry Miller, The New England MindAlbert Outler, Psycho-Therapy and the ChristianG. Bromley Oxnam, My Experience With the House Committee on Un-American ActivitiesLord Percy, The Heresy of DemocracySarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Recovery of FaithCharles E. Raven, Natural Religion and Christian TheologyP. B. Rice, On the Knowledge of Good and Evil


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Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron, The Scourge of theSwastika

Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and RelatedSubjectsMaurice Samuel, The Professor and the Fossil

Arnold Toynbee, An Historian's Approach to ReligionPeter Viereck, Dream and Responsibility

Printed articles and reviewsChristianity and Crisis, Vols. II-IV, 1942-1944

BOX 19 Miscellaneous articles and reviews(15 folders)

BOX 20 (9 folders)Report, The Negro in Detroit

BOX 21 BooksForeword to Robert Angell's Democracy and Moral IntegrationForeword to Leon Poliakov's Harvest of ShameIntroduction to Wilbur Schramm's Responsibility in Mass CommunicationsPious and Secular AmericaThe Self and the Dramas of HistoryMan's Nature and His Communities

(12 folders)BOX 22 (4 folders)

The Democratic Experience (with Paul Sigmund)BOX 23 The Structure of Nations and Empires

BOX 24-25 MiscellanyBiographical material, class lectures, printed matter, photographs, and other miscellaneous

items or files.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

BOX 24 B.D. thesis, "The Validity and Certainty of Religious Knowledge," 1914BibliographiesBiographical materialCARE Inc. receiptsClass lectures

Christian ethicsCommunism seminar

BOX 25 Doctrine of manInterpretation of history

Engagement calendars, 1932-1939PhotographsPrinted matter

BOX 26-27 June Bingham CorrespondenceLetters sent and received.Arranged alphabetically except for Bingham's correspondence with Niebuhr that precedes

other correspondence.


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BOX 26 Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952-1963, undated(9 folders)

Acheson, Dean"A" miscellaneousBennett, John C."B - C" miscellaneousDun, Angus"D" miscellaneousElliston, Herbert BerridgeFrankfurter, FelixFromm, Erich"F" miscellaneousGill, Brendan"G" miscellaneousHerberg, WillHook, Sidney"H - I" miscellaneousKirchway, FredaKoestler, ArthurKrutch, Joseph Wood"K" miscellaneousLippmann, WalterLister, R. P."L" miscellaneousMaritain, Jacques"M" miscellaneousNiebuhr, HuldaNiebuhr, LydiaNiebuhr, Ursula

BOX 27 Oppenheimer, J. RobertPress, Samuel D."P" miscellaneousReston, JamesReuther, Walter P.Russell, Bertrand"R" miscellaneousScarlett, WilliamSchiff, DorothySchlesinger, Arthur M. (1917-2007)Stevenson, Adlai E. (1900-1965)"S" miscellaneousThomas, NormanTillich, Paul"U - V" miscellaneousWest, Anthony"W - Z" miscellaneous

June Bingham Correspondence

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Unidentified

BOX 27 Reinhold Niebuhr Correspondence Collected by June BinghamNiebuhr correspondence with persons other than Bingham.Arranged alphabetically.

BOX 27 Niebuhr toElliston, Herbert BerridgeFrankfurter, FelixMann, ThomasPress, Samuel D.Riesman, DavidScarlett, WilliamSchiff, DorothySchlesinger, Arthur M. (1917-2007)Woodrow Wilson FoundationWyzanski, Charles E.

Niebuhr family correspondence

BOX 28-32 June Bingham Book FilePapers relating to Bingham's biography of Niebuhr, Courage to Change.Organized by type of material.

BOX 28-31 Courage to ChangeBOX 32 Courage to Change

Miscellany

BOX 33 William Scarlett Correspondence, 1958-1971Letters from Niebuhr to Scarlett and related and attached material.Organized chronologically.

BOX 33 1958-1971, undated(7 folders)

BOX 34-41 Addition I, 1914-1976

BOX 34-37 Subject File, 1928-1976Correspondence, printed matter, and related background material.Arranged alphabetically by topic or name of person or organization.

BOX 34 Americans for Democratic Action, 1967-1971Auden, W. H., 1941-1972

CorrespondencePoems and CopiesTypescript

Christianity and Crisis, 1972-1973Condolence, letters of, A-Z, 1971

(3 folders)

June Bingham Correspondence

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BOX 35 (2 folders)Criticism of White House sermonsHebrew University of Jerusalem degree, 1967-1972, undatedHeinemann, Gustav, 1972-1975Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, doctor of divinity degree, 1932Loeb, James I., 1974Miller, William R., 1969Miscellany, A-Z, 1959-1972Morris, Ivor, 1970Mosley, J. Brooke, 1971-1973Nixon, Richard M., 1969-1972

(2 folders)Obituary notices, 1971

(2 folders)BOX 36 (2 folders)

Printed matter, 1928, 1971-1972, undatedReinhold Niebuhr Award, 1971-1975

(6 folders)BOX 37 Reinhold Niebuhr Professorship Fund, Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y.,

1958-1976, undatedRose, Stephen C., 1970-1971"Serenity Prayer," 1966-1972, 1975Stevenson, Adlai E. (1900-1965), 1954-1957, 1973Turnbull, John W., 1971Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., sound recordings of sermons, 1962-1974,

undated

BOX 38-41 Writings, 1967-1975Articles, books, sermons, reviews, speeches and related materials.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

BOX 38 Articles, A-W(25 folders)

BOX 39 BooksFaith and Politics

Corrected manuscript(5 folders)

Correspondence and reviews, 1967-1969Justice and Mercy

Drafts(2 folders)

BOX 40 (2 folders)Correspondence and reviews, 1974-1975, undated

(3 folders)Man's Nature and His Communities, unpublished introductionNature and Destiny of Man, corrected galleys

BOX 41 Class lecturesReviews

Addition I, 1914-1976

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Sermons(6 folders)

Speeches

BOX OV 1 Oversize, 1914-1955Certificates and photograph.Arranged and described according to the series and containers from which the items were

removed.

BOX OV 1 Certificates, 1914, 1947-1955Photograph of Yale University Divinity School class of 1914, New Haven, Conn.

BOX 42-45 Addition II, 1930-1972

BOX 42 Correspondence, 1930-1972Letters received and a few copies of letters sent.Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization.

BOX 42 Ball, Robert M., 1965Bennett, John C., 1930-191972Conant, James Bryant, 1969-191970Library of Congress, 1970-191971New Republic, 1966Schneider, Mrs. (?), 1971Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1970-191971

BOX 42-45 Writings, 1951-1961Articles, book chapters, reviews, addresses, sermons, prayers, and lecture notes.Arranged by type of material and thereunder alphabetically by title.

BOX 42 Book chapters (books mainly unidentified)"Co-Existence between Communistic and Democratic Powers""Democracy, Communism and Justice in an Industrial Society"Democracy in Non-European Cultures"Industrialization and the Social Struggle""The Problem of Diversity in Language, Race, and Culture""Divisions of Race, Language and Religion in Old and New Nations""Dogma and Common Experience: The Relation of Strength to Weakness in the World

Community""The Free World -- Is Democracy a Simple Alternative to Communism or an Ultimate

Political Ideal?""The Hazards of Democracy in Non-European Cultures" (fragments)"International Politics Under the Sword of Damocles""Novel and Perennial Factors in Modern Global Politics"

BOX 43 "The Peril of Technical Progress to Human Culture""The Power Relations in Communistic and Democratic Regimes"

"Reflections on a Semi-Christian and Semi-Secular Age," introduction to Man's Natureand His Communities, 1965

Addition I, 1914-1976

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"The Roots in Western Culture of Both Democracy and Communism""Technics, Poverty, Justice and Civilization""The Two Imperial Nations in an Anti-Imperialistic Age""The Unintended Virtues of an Open Society""Western Culture and the Global Community""The World Divided"Untitled fragments

Articles"American Hegemony and the Prospects for Peace""The American Presidency and the Moratorium""Billy Graham in Historical Perspective""Catastrophe and Complacency""The Catholic Church in America""The Communist Indictment of Bourgeois Democracy..." from New Leader (?), circa

1966"The Conscious and Sub-Conscious Sources of Political Loyalty""The Difference in Three Decades of American History""Ferocity in Alabama and Mississippi""Ford and the Auto Industry of Detroit in 1920s""Formosa Policy," from Christian Action, 3 March 1955"The Future Problems of the American Economy""The Ideological Contest"

BOX 44 "John C. Bennett, Theologian, Churchman and Educator" from Theology and the Churchin Times of Change, 1970

"Liberal Protestantism in America as an Industrial Nation and World Power""Memorandum on Bicentennial""Memorandum on the Study of the Humanities in American Colleges and Universities""Modernizing Nationalism: The Ideologies of the Developing Areas""The Moral Issue in International Relations""The Morass of Religiosity in a Pluralistic Society""The Narrow Gate""Only a Quarter Century of American Imperial Destiny""Our Two Youthful Rebellions: The Light They Throw on Our American Culture""The Real Character of the Contest with Communism""Selfishness and Unselfishness and Christian Doctrine""The Student Strike Against War and Our National Self-Discovery""Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist"

Review, "The Essays of A. J. Muste"Addresses

"Authority and Freedom in the Catholic Church""Detroit," 21 Apr. 1965, regarding diamond anniversary of Niebuhr's congregation, Bethel

Evangelical Church, Detroit, Mich."The Politics of the 1930s""Portrait of an Idealist"Untitled, Barnard College, New York, N.Y., 15 May 1961

Prayers(2 folders)

Addition II, 1930-1972

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BOX 45 (1 folder)Sermons

"Christianity and Crisis""Has History a Meaning?" (incomplete)"Historical Insecurities and the Final Security""The Human Condition""The Impossible Demand for Inner Integrity""Joy, Sorrow, and Happiness According to the Christian Faith," Union Church, Berea,

Ky., 9 Dec. 1951"The Larger Communities of Man""The Meaning of Existence and the Existence of God" (incomplete)"The Problem of Man's Finiteness, Freedom and Self-Concern""Problems Confronting Religious Communities Today"Short and incomplete drafts and notesUntitled, in GermanUntitled, Union Theological Seminary, 13 Nov. 1955Untitled outline

Lecture notesChristian ethicsChristian ethics 221Christian ethics 222Seminar, 1960-191961Various outlines for courses

BOX 45 MiscellanyBiographical material, clippings, notes, photographs, and printed matter.Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic.

BOX 45 Biographical fileClippingsNotesPhotographPrinted matter

BOX 46-57 Addition III, 1907-1992

BOX 46-54 Correspondence, 1913-1990Letters sent and received.Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization.

BOX 46 Aitken, Barbara See Container 48, Gwyer, B. E.Alinsky, Saul, 1972Angevin, John, 1971-1974Ansons, Susan J., 1965Arndt, Elmer J. F., 1933Baillie, John and Jewel, 1934-1962, undatedBaker, Gilbert See Container 47, Clasper, Paul D.Baldwin, Roger N., 1939

Addition II, 1930-1972

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Barnes, John, 1972-1989, undatedBarr, Alfred H., Jr., 1954, 1970Bell, William F., 1965-1966, 1988Bennett, John C., 1957-1989, undated For additional material see Container 47,

Christianity and Crisis ; and Container 55, Fox, Richard(2 folders)

Berlin, Isaiah, 1943, 1949-1953, 1969-1982Bingham, Jonathan and June, 1953-1987, undatedBliven, Bruce and Rosie, 1954, 1961-1977, 1985Bowles, Chester B., 1956Bowra, Maurice, 1949, 1958, 1968-1970, undatedBrown, Charles, 1989Brown, Robert McAfee, 1967-1989, undated"B" miscellaneous, 1953-1976Carter, Jimmy, 1976-1979

BOX 47 Cartwright, Michael G., 1988Cary, William L. and Katherine, 1961-1971, 1983Case, William W., 1927Centre for Biblical and Jewish Studies, Our Lady of Sion, London, England, 1971, 1980Christian Century, 1938Christianity and Crisis, 1972, 1986-1988, undatedChrystal, William G., 1976-1986Clasper, Paul D., 1969, 1979-1989, undatedClecak, Peter, 1977Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1933, 1946, undatedCogley, John, 1961, 1971-1974Coles, Robert, 1967-1985Conant, James Bryant, 1948-1950Conte, Silvio O., 1967, 1982Cooper, John W., 1982-1986Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford and Isobel, 1939-1958Crocker, John, 1955-1978Cross, Gertie and Leslie, 1930, 1940-1942, 1951, 1970-1973Crothers, George D., 1971-1979"C" miscellaneous, 1926-1989, undatedDavies, William David and Eurwen, 1965-1975Davis, Harry Rex, 1953-1960, 1987-1989Decke, Gerd, 1969DeGruchy, John, 1981-1988Denger, Florence, 1970-1975, undatedDodd, C. H. and Phyllis, 1942-1971, undatedDun, Angus and Catherine ("Kitty"), 1956, 1965-1969, undated

BOX 48 Dyson, Freeman, 1958, 1979-1980"D" miscellaneous, 1930, 1942, 1948-1989, undatedEgan, John J., 1971-1982, undatedEliot, T. S., 1946-1959Elliott, Elbert, 1970

Addition III, 1907-1992

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Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Ill., 1986Erikson, Eric and Joan, 1960-1971, undatedFackre, Gabriel J., 1968-1986Finkelstein, Louis, 1969Flesserman, Ellen, 1947, 1977, 1983Floyd, Richard, 1988-1989Ford, George B., 1975Fosdick, Harry Emerson and Dorothy, 1956, 1969, undatedFox, Richard See Container 55, same headingFrank, Anna, 1969Frankfurter, Felix and Marion, 1942-1964, undatedFranklin, Sam H., Jr., 1966-1971, 1982-1990Freund, Paul A., 1956"F" miscellaneous, 1984Gelber, Lionel, 1972Gilkey, Charles Whitney, 1932Gilkey, Langdon, 1988-1989Glueck, Nelson, 1969-1970Good, Robert C. See Container 47, Davis, Harry RexGordon, J. King and Ruth Anderson, 1931-1936, 1960-1989, undatedGottsfield, Robert L., 1975Greenlaw, William, 1972-1975, undatedGregg, Richard B., 1935Gwyer, B. E., 1940-1971, undated"G" miscellaneous, 1955, 1966-1974Hadassah, Boston chapter, Boston, Mass., 1975

BOX 49 Hall, Douglas, 1966, 1979-1989, undatedHall, Ronald O., 1941-1945, 1957, 1971Harlow, Gretta, 1980-1983, undatedHase, Hans Christoph von, 1934, 1968, 1987-1988, undatedHeimert, Alan, 1965-1966, undatedHerberg, Will, 1950, 1956-1957, 1965Hodson, H. V., 1965Holmes, John Haynes, 1934Hook, Sidney, 1987Horton, Myles, 1986-1989Humphrey, Hubert H., 1965-1976Humphries, Bertram and Myra, 1966-1971Hussey, Margaret and Bill, 1980-1989"H" miscellaneous, 1933, 1955, 1964-1981, undatedJesuits, 1971-1989, undatedJohnson, J. Dell, 1978Johnson, Kermit, 1982-1988"J" miscellaneous, 1948, 1968-1972Keedy, Allen See Container 48, Fackre, Gabriel J.Kegley, Charles W., 1982-1985


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Kennan, George F., 1966Kubie, Lawrence S., 1957-1971"K" miscellaneous, 1966-1989LaFarge, Sheila, 1955, 1963Landon, Harold R., 1987-1988Leatt, James V. See Container 47, DeGruchy, JohnLeibholz, Sabine See Container 55, Bonhoeffer, DietrichLincoln College, Lincoln, Ill., 1979Lippmann, Walter, 1929Littell, Franklin H.

1970-1977(2 folders)


Loeb, James I., Ellen, and Peter, 1952, 1961-1979"L" miscellaneous, 1939-1977, undatedMerkley, Paul, 1974-1980, 1989Moore, Marianne, 1960Moynihan, Daniel P., 1965-1970Mumford, Lewis, 1944, 1965-1972"M" miscellaneous, 1959, 1967-1977Nelson, Burton F., 1981-1987Neubauer, Reinhard, 1962, 1984-1986New Leader, 1969-1972Niebuhr, Elisabeth, circa 1960Niemöller, Else, 1952Nunley, Richard, 1985Novak, Michael, 1965-1966"O" miscellaneous, 1956, 1967, undatedPaton, Alan, 1975-1988, undatedPaton, David M., 1942, 1976-1978Pauck, Wilhelm and Marion

1963-1979(3 folders)

BOX 51 1980-1988(1 folder)

Peerman, Dean G., 1986-1987Perham, Margery, 1944-1947, 1958Pokorny, Otto A. and Grace, 1966-1976Porter, John F., 1972-1982Proctor, Evelyn, 1948-1958Press, Samuel D., 1913"P" miscellaneous, 1927, 1946-1989Ramsey, Michael, 1962-1972Rasmussen, Larry, 1986-1990, undatedRatcliffe, S. K. and Peggy, 1943-1944, 1952-1953, undatedRice, Daniel F., 1978-1990, undated


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Robertson, D. B., 1952-1985Rockwell, Norman and Mollie, 1965-1966, undatedRubboli, Massimo, 1985-1986"R" miscellaneous, 1943, 1968-1977Sabin, Albert B. and Amie, 1970, 1986Scarlett, William, 1936, 1964-1974, undatedSchlesinger, Arthur M. (1917-2007), 1957-1988, undated For additional material see

Container 46, Bingham, Jonathan and JuneSchlesinger, Elizabeth, 1965Scott, Nathan A., Jr.

1965-1977BOX 52 1978-1990, undated

Shinn, Roger Lincoln, 1969-1970Sigmund, Paul, 1969-1970, undatedSimons, Hans, 1965, 1972Smith, John E., 1953-1956, 1968, undatedSpender, Stephen, 1955, 1974Splinter, Dieter, 1985-1986Standing Liturgical Commission of the Episcopal Church, 1979, undatedStansgate, Margaret, 1952, 1985-1988, undatedStewart, John B., 1989Stone, Ronald H., 1965-1987"S" miscellaneous, 1933-1935, 1959-1988, undatedTheis, Edouard, 1947Thompson, Kenneth, 1966-1983, undatedTillich, Hannah, 1965-1968, undatedTompkins, Oliver, 1968, 1985-1988Trilling, Lionel and Diana, 1961-1966, undated"T" miscellaneous, 1940-1986, undatedVan Dusen, Henry P., 1931-1932, 1962Van Dusen, Hugh and Geraldine, 1968-1987

(2 folders)Vidler, Alexander Roper, 1942-1953, 1968-1985Voss, Carl Hermann, 1973, 1987-1988Watters, Enda, 1973-1974, 1984-1986Welch, Adam C. and Grace M., 1928, 1942, undated

BOX 53 Wells, Eddie and Dorothy, 1940-1988, undated(2 folders)

White, Morton, 1956, 1973, 1986Wilson, Geoffrey and Judy, 1947, 1958-1983, undatedWolf, William J., 1960, 1971, 1980-1986, undatedWoodward, E. L. and F. M., 1930-1931, 1943-1971, undated (4 folders, includes typed

transcripts) See also Container 56, same headingWyton, Alec, 1974-1981Wyzanski, Charles E., Jr., and Gisela, 1956-1976Yale University libraries, New Haven, Conn., 1986Yale University Press, 1983-1987, undated


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Zeoli, Mari, 1970-1976"W-Z" miscellaneous, 1927-1950, 1969-1973, undated

BOX 54 Unanswered, 1967-1971, undated(2 folders)

Unidentified, 1933-1980, undated

BOX 54-56 Subject File, 1916-1992Correspondence, clippings, and printed material.Arranged alphabetically by topic.

BOX 54 Adams, Larry L., 1978-1980, undatedAmerican Friends of German Freedom, 1944, 1946Articles and essays regarding Niebuhr and his work, 1937-1992, undated

(4 folders)Augustine, undatedBaldwin, James, 1963-1964, 1982Barth, Karl, 1929-1963, undated

BOX 55 Bethel Evangelical Church, Detroit, Mich., 1928, 1969-1972, undatedBiographical clippings, 1931-1991, undated

(4 folders)Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1945, 1978-1988Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y., 1973-1975, undatedCatholicism, 1965-1982, undatedCaustin, Bernard See Container 56, Niemöller, MartinCoffin, Henry Sloane, retirement from Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y., 1945Condolences on Niebuhr's death, 1971-1972Cottage at Heath, Mass., 1979-1981, undatedEddy, Sherwood, 1924, undatedFox, Richard (Niebuhr biographer), 1979-1987, undatedFrankfurter, Felix, 1966-1968, 1977, undated

BOX 56 Groton School, Groton, Conn., seventy-fifth anniversary, undatedHerberg, Will, 1947-1977, undatedInterviews with Niebuhr, 1960-1969Israel, 1937-1973, undatedKester, Howard, 1935, 1990Miscellany, 1934, 1951-1974, undatedNaudé, Beyers, 1970-1975, 1982-1985, undatedNiebuhr, H. Richard, 1962Niebuhr, Ursula, 1969, 1972, 1978Niebuhr, Walter, undatedNiemöller, Martin, 1942-1984, undatedObituaries and memorials, 1971-1972, undatedPauck, Wilhelm and Marion, 1976-1984, undatedPhotographs, 1948, undatedPreachers, Billy Sunday and Billy Graham, 1916, circa 1980sResearchers, 1972-1977"Serenity" prayer, 1944-1987, undated


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Student contemporaries, 1929, 1968-1970Students and admirers, 1935, 1948-1986Woodward, E. L. See also Container 53, same heading

Literary estate of, 1986-1987Notes on Niebuhr's writings, [1958?]Writings, 1946-1969

BOX 56-57 Writings, 1907-1986Articles, addresses, reviews, and miscellaneous items.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.

BOX 56 Addresses, 1947, 1961Articles

Printed copies1918-1953

(2 folders)BOX 57 1954-1970

(3 folders)Typescripts

"Detroit in the Twenties," undated"The Detroit Microcosm in the American Industrial Macrocosm," circa 1960s"Shoe Clerk a Woman Hater?" undated"A View of Life From the Sidelines," 1967, 1984-1985

Bibliographies, 1925-1980, undatedBiographical statement, 1907Lectures

Gifford lectures, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, comments on,1941-1942, 1954

"How Faith and Reason Are Related," 1950Notes on ethics of social change, [1931?]Reviews and comments

By Niebuhr, 1953-1970, undatedOf Niebuhr's books, 1929-1979, undated

(2 folders)Of books regarding Niebuhr, 1956, 1960, 1986, undated

Sermon, "I Came That They May Have Life...," undated

BOX 58-67 Addition IV, 1913-1994

BOX 58-60 Family Correspondence, 1923-1971Correspondence between Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr and other family members.Arranged alphabetically by correspondent and chronologically thereunder.

BOX 58 Niebuhr, ReinholdFrom

Niebuhr, H. Richard, 1930-1940, undatedTo

Keppel-Compton, A. S. (Ursula Niebuhr's mother), 1932-1933


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Niebuhr, Lydia (mother) and Hulda (sister), 1923, 1939, 1947-1948, undatedNiebuhr, Ursula

1931-1937(8 folders)


Niebuhr, UrsulaTo

Keppel-Compton, A. S. and J. H. (Ursula Niebuhr's parents), 1930-1933, undated(4 folders)

BOX 60 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1931-1970(5 folders)

Various family members and friends, 1931-1971, undated

BOX 60-67 Professional File of Ursula Niebuhr, 1913-1994Correspondence, articles, essays, lectures, speeches, sermons, notes, and administrative

papers regarding her teaching career at Barnard College.Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic and chronologically or alphabetically

thereunder.

BOX 60 Barnard College, New York, N.Y.Correspondence, 1955, undatedCourses

Introduction to the study of religion, 1963-1964, undatedOld and New Testaments, 1963-1964, undated

BOX 61 Religion, 1959-1964, undatedFormer students, 1956-1981Interfaith services, 1949-1956, undatedOffice of Religious Affairs, 1951-1953

General correspondenceAmiran, David and Ruth, 1990-1994Anderson, Carol, 1977-1991, undated"A" miscellaneous, 1975-1991Baillie, John, 1947Barnes, John, 1991-1992Barrett, Esmé, 1984-1992, undatedBarrette, Ray, 1985-1991, undatedBenn, Anthony ("Tony"), David, and June, 1959-1991, undated For additional material

see Container 65, Margaret StansgateBerle, Adolf Augustus, Jr., and Beatrice, 1966-1984Bossman, David M., 1981-1990Brown, Charles C., 1990-1993Brown, Robert McAfee, 1983-1991Buoncristiano, Barbara, 1965-1991Burlingham, Charles C., 1955-1958"B" miscellaneous, 1942-1987, undatedChartock, Roselle K., 1989

Addition IV, 1913-1994

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Cripps, Isobel, 1951-1959"C" miscellaneous, 1953-1992, undated"D" miscellaneous, 1948-1993

BOX 62 Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies, Tantur, Israel, 1976-1982,undated

Emmet, Dorothy Mary, 1939-1991, undated"E" miscellaneous, 1956-1994, undatedFletcher, John C. and Dale, 1965-1990, undatedFranklin, Sam H., Jr., and Dorothy, 1987-1993"F" miscellaneous, 1934-1993, undated

(2 folders)Glauberman, Joan and George, 1972-1974, undated"G" miscellaneous, 1931-1992, undatedHall, Douglas John, 1990-1992, undatedHarlow, Gretta, 1948-1987Harman, Avraham, 1969-1971Harries, Richard, 1978-1993, undatedHavergal, Cynthia, 1945, 1972-1993, undatedHeschel, Abraham Joshua, re, 1968-1983, undatedHussey, Margaret, 1941-1979

BOX 63 "H" miscellaneous, 1940-1992, undatedIsrael, friends in, 1972-1987"I" miscellaneous, 1933-1981, undatedJohnson, Sherman, 1972Kennan, George F., 1971-1972Kenyon, Kathleen, 1969-1973Kilner, Bo (Mrs. John S.), 1965-1975, undatedKollek, Teddy, 1971-1990, undated

(4 folders)"K" miscellaneous, 1962-1992Leith, John, 1970-1990, undatedLittell, Franklin H. and Marcia S., 1989-1990, undatedLovett, Sidney and Joan, 1964-1993, undatedLovitt, Harriet, 1952-1989, undated

BOX 64 Lynch, William F., 1950-1986, undated"L" miscellaneous, 1959-1992, undatedMacLeish, Archibald, 1952-1956Mailer, Norman, 1972-1976Marty, Martin E., 1977-1992, undatedMcGovern, George, 1967McIntosh, Millicent, 1956-1990, undatedMesinai, Susan Bromberg, 1964-1990Miller, Charles, 1979-1991Morgenthau, Hans J., 1970-1974Mumford, Lewis and Sophia, 1973, 1989-1991"M" miscellaneous, 1929-1992, undated

(2 folders)


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"N" miscellaneous, 1930, 1965-1991, undated"O" miscellaneous, 1969-1993, undatedPaton, Alan, concerning, 1992, undatedPauck, Marion, 1977-1993, undatedRandall, John Herman, 1942, undatedRanke-Heinemann, Uta, 1979, 1990-1991, undatedRoosevelt, Franklin D., III, 1966-1992, undated

BOX 65 "R" miscellaneous, 1930-1992, undated(2 folders)

Sacks, Oliver W., 1993, undatedSchlesinger, Arthur M. (1917-2007), 1954-1972Sedgwick, Ellery, 1931Shriver, Donald W., 1978-1992, undatedSpeers, Guthrie, 1969-1991, undatedStansgate, Margaret, 1942-1991, undated

(2 folders)Stewart, John B., 1954-1961, undated"S" miscellaneous, 1951-1992, undatedTickell, Reneé, 1974-1990, undated"T" miscellaneous, 1965-1990, undatedVidler, Alexander Roper, 1966-1991Wyton, Alec, 1974-1990, undated"W-Z" miscellaneous, 1959-1992, undatedUnidentified, 1958-1994

BOX 66 Miscellaneous clippings and printed matter, 1913-1977, undatedSpeeches and writings

Articles and essays"Christmas," 1947"Every Woman's Right -- At Easter," 1948"Faith, Hope and Love, These Three; But the Greatest of These Is Love," 1952"Glory," 1983-1984"The Gospel, Women, and the Church," 1951"Historical Retrospect: English Friends and Influences," undated"Holy Spirit," undated"Is Dullness the Sin Against the Holy Spirit?" 1953"Moral Wisdom," 1964"Notes on a Friendship: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Reinhold Niebuhr," 1983"Our Witness to the Resurrection," 1947"Partakers of His Resurrection," 1953"Show Me Thy Glory," undated"Statesman or Politician," undated"The Stuff and the Language of Religion," 1964, undated"Two Days in Washington," 1979, undated"Two English Bishops: William Temple," undated"Union [Theological Seminary]: Then and Now, 1930 and 1955, Impressions and

Recollections," 1955"Women and the Church, and the Fact of Sex," 1951


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"The World, the Flesh and the Devil," undatedColumns and other writings for the Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., 1972-1981, undatedLectures

Borah Foundation Lectures, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 1954McGill lecture, 1980Sprunt lectures, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., 1977

BOX 67 Miscellaneous, 1947-1982, undatedNotes on

Church fathers and sex, undatedEcclesia (the Church), undated

Prayers, 1956, undatedSermon outlines, 1942-1944, 1959, 1967, undated

(2 folders)Speeches, 1950, 1957-1977Statements on Israel and Judaism, 1972-1979, undatedTypescripts of sound recordings of dialogues by Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr

Christian belief, 1979, undatedFord, Henry, and Detroit, Mich., undated

Working materials for Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr ([San Francisco]:HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), circa 1990

Worship services, 1950-1954, 1979, undated

BOX 68-70 Addition V, 1990-1997Correspondence, subject files, articles, essays, lectures, and reviews.Grouped by type of material and arranged alphabetically therein.

BOX 68 CorrespondenceAmiran, David and Ruth, 1969, 1979-1988 See also Container 69, Jerusalem Committee,

correspondence“A” miscellaneous, 1989Bingham, Jonathan and June, 1949-1952, 1959-1964, 1997, undated“B-E” miscellaneous, 1925-1927, 1952, 1965-1971, 1987, 1993-1994“F-J” miscellaneous, 1930-1931, 1947-1952, 1961-1970, 1979, 1989Kollek, Teddy, 1969-1971, 1990-1997 See also Container 69, Jerusalem Committee,

correspondence“K-M” miscellaneous, 1925, 1954-1959, 1965, 1991-1996Niebuhr family correspondence, 1910-1913, 1926, 1932, 1945, 1952, 1967-1968, 1978-1994

(2 folders)Regarding Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr, [San Francisco]: Harper San Francisco,

1988-1992Rockefeller Foundation, grant, 1957-1969Roosevelt, Frank, 1965Stone, Ronald H., 1965-1970“S-W” miscellaneous, 1926-1931, 1951-1952, 1987-1997Unidentified, 1940, 1957, 1991, 1997

Subject fileAwards and honors, 1942, 1948, 1954-1961, 1967-1969, 1992-1996


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Bethel Evangelical Church, Detroit, Mich., 1924-1925, 1952, undatedChristian liturgy, 1972-1980Clippings, 1922-1934, 1948-1979, 1992, undatedFellowship of Socialist Christians, undatedJerusalem Committee

Clippings, 1972-1989BOX 69 Correspondence, 1970-1987

See also Container 68, Amiran, David and Ruth; and Kollek, Teddy(3 folders)

Plenary sessions and conferences, 1969-1985Printed matter, 1969-1985

Niebuhr, Christopher 1949-1952, 1979Obituaries and tributes, 1971-1972, 1992Official documents, 1931-1932, 1952-1955, 1971, undatedPrograms, 1938, 1949, 1983Reinhold Niebuhr Award, 1971-1974Serenity prayer, 1987-1993

Writings fileLectures, notes, reports, 1935-1937, 1970-1971Printed articles

By Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1916-1932, 1942-1971(3 folders)

BOX 70 By Niebuhr, Ursula, 1954-1957, 1979By others, regarding Niebuhr and his work, 1944, 1954-1960, 1972- 1995, 2002, undated

(3 folders)Reviews and comments

By Niebuhr, Reinhold, circa 1919, 1933-1945, 1955, 1965-1966Of Niebuhr’s books, 1929, 1944Of books regarding Niebuhr, 1948, 1956-1960, 1986, 1992-1995

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