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Collection Summary
Identifier
UA 53.10
Title
Charles L. Sewrey Papers
Creator
Charles L. (Charles Louis) Sewrey
Dates
1862-1973
Extent
1.68 linear feet (4 document cases) photographs
Language
English
Repository
South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.
Access note
This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Preferred Citation
Name of item . Charles L. Sewrey Papers. UA 53.10. South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M .Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.
Abstract
Charles L. Sewrey taught political sciences, economics and history. This collection consists of collected materials presumably used for research, correspondence and writing and miscellaneous materials. Manuscripts and published works are devoted primarily to anti-Catholicism.
Biographical Note
Charles Louis Sewrey, a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, came to South Dakota State College in 1947 after graduating with high distinction from the University of Minnesota. He held BA and MA degrees and had some teaching experience from the University of Minnesota. His third degree, Ph.D., also from Minnesota, was granted in 1955. He taught American political, economic, cultural and diplomatic history as professor of history at South Dakota State University. In addition to teaching, he published numerous articles in some of America's leading intellectual magazines. Dr. Sewrey also authored a book titled, A History of South Dakota State College in 1959. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a national scholastic honorary society. Dr. Sewrey retired from teaching in 1974 due to failing health. He died in 1979. A memorial endowment fund was established in 1981. The History Department is the main benefactor of the endowment, which funds scholarships and faculty development with such programs as the Sewrey Faculty Colloquium.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into four series:
Series 1. Collected material
Series 2. General papers
Series 3. Manuscripts
Series 4. Published works
Contents Note
This collection is composed of collected materials presumably used for research, correspondence and writing and miscellaneous materials.
The collected material is composed of numerous pamphlets, newspapers and clippings, an 1862 book of poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, material of the Socialist Party in the United States, and a file of research on Steven Truscott, a man who was convicted of murder in Ontario, Canada but may have been wrongly accused.
The general papers include correspondence, some notes and an exam from some of Sewrey's history courses, miscellaneous items and photographs. The miscellaneous items include a map showing lakes, railways, wagon roads, hotels and other points of interest of the Lake District in the vicinity of Alexandria, Minnesota.
The manuscripts cover several topics but the main scope of this material is of anti-Catholicism and frontier Minnesota. Included in the manuscripts is a draft of Sewrey's master's thesis titled The Protestant Minister in Frontier Minnesota.
The published works also covers several topics but the main scope of this material is anti-Catholicism and Communism. Included in this material are two transcripts of a radio program titled Professor's Forum that was broadcast from the South Dakota State College radio station.
Key Words
Americanism (Catholic controversy)
Anti-Catholicism -- United States
Catholic Church in the United States
Church and state -- Catholic Church
Sewrey, Charles Louis
South Dakota State University – Faculty
Container List
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Series | Box | Folder | Description | Date(s) |
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1. Collected material | 1 | 1 | Aurora Leigh and other poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published by James Miller | 1862 |
1. Collected material | 1 | 2 | Miscellaneous | 1945-1964 |
1. Collected material | 1 | 3 | Newspaper clippings | 1949, 1954, undated |
1. Collected material | 1 | 4 | Socialist material | 1962-1963 |
1. Collected material | 2 | 1 | Steven Truscott research | 1966-1969 |
2. General papers | 2 | 2 | Correspondence | 1955-1970 |
2. General papers | 2 | 3 | Course work | undated |
2. General papers | 2 | 4 | Miscellaneous | undated |
2. General papers | 2 | 5 | Photographs | 1870, 1930, undated |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 6 | American Anti-Catholicism: Heirloom or ideology?, pp. 1-33 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 7 | Dealing with controversial issues in current affairs courses, pp. 106 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 8 | Development of the Spiritual Power of the Medieval Popes to 1216, pp. 1-264 | 1947 |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 9 | Foundations of Land Grant Colleges, pp. 1-15 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 10 | Infallibility, the American Way, and Catholic Apologetics | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 12 | Master's Thesis - The Protestant Minister in Frontier Minnesota, Chapter 1: Introductory observations, pp. 1-50 | 1946 |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 13 | Master's Thesis - The Protestant Minister in Frontier Minnesota, Chapter 2: The Frontier minister's private life, pp. 51-100 | 1946 |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 1 | Master's Thesis - The Protestant Minister in Frontier Minnesota, Chapter 3: The Frontier minister's public life - religious aspects, pp. 101-300 | 1946 |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 2 | Master's Thesis - The Protestant Minister in Frontier Minnesota, Chapter 4: The Frontier minister's public life - that concerning the world and the flesh, pp. 301-356 | 1946 |
3. Manuscripts | 2 | 11 | Master's Thesis - The Protestant Minister in Frontier Minnesota, Table of Contents, Preface | 1946 |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 3 | Moralist and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War, pp. 1-13 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 4 | Needed: A universal address system, pp. 1-8 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 5 | Persistence of the Anti-Catholic tradition in later American history, pp. 1-17 | 1955 |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 6 | Religious rivalry and sectarianism on the frontier: some examples from Minnesota, pp. 1-33 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 7 | Review of Howard Robert Lamar's Dakota Territory, pp. 1-10 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 9 | Some ideas as the form the report of the special faculty association committee on student evaluation might take, pp. 1-27 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 10 | State Enterprise in South Dakota, pp. 1-10 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 8 | The Status of Religion and Morals on the Minnesota Frontier, pp. 1-44 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 12 | Untitled 1: Chapter 1: Anti-Catholicism - origins and attempts to explain, pp. 17-47 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 2 | Untitled 1: Chapter 10: The Catholic Church and American democratic rights - some questions of compatibility, pp. 457-538 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 3 | Untitled 1: Chapter 11: The non-Catholic rebuttal - why Catholic assurances did not always assure, pp. 539-561 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 4 | Untitled 1: Chapter 12: The "Americanism" episode, pp. 562-592 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 5 | Untitled 1: Chapter 13: Appraisal of the status of Catholics in the United States, 1860-1914, pp. 593-683 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 6 | Untitled 1: Chapter 14: Catholic "cultural isolation," pp. 64-764 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 7 | Untitled 1: Chapter 15: Summary and conclusions, pp. 765-792 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 13 | Untitled 1: Chapter 2: Some aspects of Catholic political theory in its relationship to American thought, pp. 48-73 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 14 | Untitled 1: Chapter 3: Catholic attempts to represent Catholicism and American civilization as harmonious, p. 74-136 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 15 | Untitled 1: Chapter 4: Some attempts to adjust Catholic policies to the realities of American life, pp. 137-201 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 16 | Untitled 1: Chapter 5: Fanning the flames of controversy, pp. 202-270 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 17 | Untitled 1: Chapter 6: Specific areas of controversy - The Papal States, pp. 271-296 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 18 | Untitled 1: Chapter 7: Specific areas of controversy - International relations, pp. 297-345 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 19 | Untitled 1: Chapter 8: Specific areas of controversy - Recriminations growing out of the role of Catholics during the slavery debate and the Civil War, pp. 346-376 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 1 | Untitled 1: Chapter 9: Specific areas of controversy - Education, pp. 377-456 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 3 | 11 | Untitled 1: Table of contents, introduction, pp. 1-16 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 8 | Untitled 2: Topic: Laurel A. Engberg, pp. 1-2 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 9 | Untitled 3: Topic: Protestant ministers in frontier Minnesota, pp. 1-5 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 10 | Whose Holy land? The Jewish-Arab-Christian imbroglio in Palestine, pp. 1-70 | undated |
3. Manuscripts | 4 | 11 | Witchcraft in England and Scotland during the Sixteenth Century, pp. 1-55 | 1945 |
4. Published works | 4 | 12 | Bigotry in Politics, The Christian Century, pp/ 744-746 | 1958 |
4. Published works | 4 | 13 | Conservatives, Liberals, and Freedom, The Unicorn, pp. 13-18 | 1962 |
4. Published works | 4 | 14 | Frontier Politics Were Colorful, Turbulent (Review), State College Dakotan, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 6, 11, 15 | 1958 |
4. Published works | 4 | 15 | Historians and Anti-Catholicism, The Christian Century, pp. 333-335 | 1956 |
4. Published works | 4 | 16 | Hoover's Proposed Reorganization of the United Nationa (Transcript), State College Broadcasting System - Professor's Forum | undated |
4. Published works | 4 | 17 | How Long Will the "Conservation Wave" Last? The Unicorn, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 38-41 | 1963 |
4. Published works | 4 | 18 | Infallibility, The American Wat, and Catholic Apologetics, Journal of Church and State, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 293-302 | 1973 |
4. Published works | 4 | 19 | Liberal and Freedom, The Dakotan, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 4+6 | 1963 |
4. Published works | 4 | 20 | Outlawing the Communist Party, State College Broadcasting System - Professor's Forum | undated |
4. Published works | 4 | 21 | Sewrey Views Youth, Education (Letter to Editor), State College Collegian, pp. 6 | 1956 |
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Researchers conducting extensive research are asked to make an advance appointment to access archival material. Please call or e-mail prior to visiting the collection and indicate as much detail as possible about a particular topic and intended use.
South Dakota State University supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted as a result of their fragile condition or by contractual agreements with donors.
Copyright note
Copyright restrictions apply in different ways to different materials. Many of the documents and other historical materials in the Archives are in the public domain and may be reproduced and used in any way. There are other materials in the Archive carrying a copyright interest and must be used according to the provisions of Title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Archive issues a warning concerning copyright restrictions to every researcher who requests copies of documents. Although the copyright law is under constant redefinition in the courts, it is ultimately the responsibility of the researcher to properly use copyrighted material.
Arranged and Described by
Crystal J. Gamradt, Archivist, 1999 January 12.