George Nauman Shuster Papers
Scope and Content
Correspondence, reports, minutes, interviews, notebooks, clippings, contracts with publishers, and drafts of essays, speeches, and books; including letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacques Maritain, Padraic Colum, Hilaire Belloc, Van Wyck Brooks, Francis J. Sheed, Saul Alinsky, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Heinrich Bruning, and Konrad Adenauer; with material pertaining to his visits to Germany in 1937- 1938, 1945, and 1950-1951, his conversations with German intellectuals, politicians, soldiers and refugees, his work with UNESCO, and his service on the Board of Trustees of the James Picker Foundation for Radiological Research, the Broadcasting Foundation of America, Briar Cliff College, and the Industrial Areas Foundation; also a phonograph record of the funeral of Winston Churchill, photographs, and books.
Dates
- Creation: 1918-1977.
Creator
Language of Materials
English.
Background
Notre Dame student, 1911-1915; faculty member and head of the Department of English, 1920-1924; an editor of The Commonweal, 1925-1937; President of Hunter College, 1940- 1960; State Commissioner for Bavaria, 1950-1951; Assistant to the President of Notre Dame, 1960-1976.
Extent
15 linear feet. 1 record album. 1 linear foot of photographs. 35 linear feet of printed material.
Subject
- UNESCO. (Organization)
- James Picker Foundation for Radiological Research. (Organization)
- Broadcasting Foundation of America (Organization)
- Briar Cliff College (Organization)
- Industrial Areas Foundation. (Organization)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. (Person)
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 (Person)
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. (Person)
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 (Person)
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. (Person)
- Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 (Person)
- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 (Person)
- Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 (Person)
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963 (Person)
- Sheed, F. J. (Francis Joseph), 1897-1981 (Person)
- Alinsky, Saul D., 1909-1972 (Person)
- Von Hildebrand, Dietrich, 1889- (Person)
- Bruning, Heinrich, 1885-1970 (Person)
- Adenauer, Konrad, 1876-1967 (Person)
- Hunter College. (Organization)
- Catholic Church -- Publishing (Organization)
Topical
- Title
- George Nauman Shuster Papers
- Subtitle
- Guide
- Author
- University of Notre Dame Archives
- Date
- 2005
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository