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Charles L. Sewrey Papers

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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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Charles L. Sewrey Papers Container List. UA 53.10

Series Box Folder Description Date(s)
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.