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Zane L. Miller Papers

Zane L. Miller is professor emeritus of the University of Cincinnati's Department of History. He is most noted for his work on the history of urban/metropolitan developments in American history, with a special focus on Cincinnati. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Special Collections Department at UC in 1972. His papers include his research on many US cities, his personal student records and research, as well as correspondence and committee notes related to his position in the university.

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Box 1:

1. Henry T. Hunt Papers 1963
2. 1890 Voter Census 1890-1914
3. Historiographical Essays; n.d.
4. Stuff for Thesis to Book; n.d.
5. Complete Outline and Abstract Winter 1965
6. Boston Charity Conscience to Community; n.d.
7. Notes on Cox and Boys Used for Revision 1965
8. Section 3, Chapter 2, Part 1 Germen Jewish Copy 2
9. Section 3, Chapter 2, Part 2 Catholics Copy 2
10. Section 3, Chapter 2, Part 3 Protestants Copy 2
11. Section 3, Chapter 3, Part 1 Non-Sectarian Approach Copy 2
12. Original of Maps; n.d.
13. Cincinnati Maps; n.d.
14. Section 4, Chapter 4, Revolt of Zone Copy 2
15. Section 4, Chapter 5, Progressives Copy 2
16. Section 4, Chapter 4, New System Rejected 1909-1911 Copy 2
17. Section 4, Chapter 3, Factions and Reform 1905-1909 Copy 2
18. Section 4, Chapter 2, Changing Patterns of Politics 1900-1905 Copy 2
19. Section 4, Chapter 1, New Order Attacked 1897-1900 Copy 2
20. Section 3, Chapter 3, New Philanthropy Experts Part 2 The Gospel of Efficiency Copy 2
21. City Reference Cards; Individually Dated (Each references a specific location)

1. Cincinnati Hist. Society
2. Ohio Academy
3. National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship
4. Financial Aid- Scholar Fellows Honoraries
5. Job Info. -Forms
6. Vitae jobs
7. Lima Material Contracts and School Cert Materials
8. The University of Chicago Magazine August 2000
9. Ideas for Research
10. Resources Guides& Catalogues for Research
11. Maps/ Catalogues
12. Medical History Appointment
13. Notes on the Garage Door
14. Visions of Places Book Review (Over the Rhine Reference)
15. University of Cincinnati Business
16. Research Institutes
17. Letters Re: UC
18. Personal Letter RE: Prof. ACT.
19. Archives and Archival Material
20. Reviews of work
21. UC Review Comm. (Pellathy)
22. Republican Decade
23. Progressives
24. Foreign Relations 1865-1916
25. Foreign Affairs 1865-1916
26. The Search for World Order: The Truman Years First Draft
27. Domestic History of Truman 2nd Revision
28. Urban Training Center-Holt
29. Search for World Order Copy 2
30. World War II
31. US and World War II
32. World War I (Proofread)
33. The United States at Mid-Century
34. Assistants Reports, Correspondence etc. Summer of 1962
35. Foreign Relations, 1865-1916. First Revision as sent to Lavengood 7-62
36. Kennedy text
37. Progressive America, 1865-1916
38. Teaching Survey ‘65
39. Progressive America, 1865-1916
40. Teaching Survey ‘65
41. Urban History Bibliography
42. Urban History Bibliography
43. Urban History Bibliography cir. 1880
44. Frontier Urban Seminar Research
45. Frontier Urban Research  ‘72
46. Material for Teaching (City)
47. Model Building
48. Group V Report

Box 5:

1. Notebook- Hist 484 Principles and Problems of American Diplomacy
2. Notebook- Education
3. Notebook- American Foreign Relations
4. Notebook- The Old South
5. Notebook- Hist. 448 Succession and Compromise
6. Notebook- Hist. 483 Political Parties and Problems since 1917
7. Notebook- Hist. 482 Political Parties and Problems to 1917
8. Notebook- Hist. 339 Coming of Civil War
9. Notebook- Hist. 390 The Republican Regime
10. Notebook- Hist. 315 1789-1870
11. McGovern- Dem. Reform Movement
12. Clifton
13. Pol. Speeches 1971
14. McGovern Speech
15. Chenault Speech
16. Cincinnati Politics
17. Aspen Institute
18. Book Reviews- Cities
19. Human Relations Commissions
20.  Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Aspen Colorado (Agenda and Program)
21. Aspen Executive Progam Summer 1974 Reproduced Readings Second Week

Box 6:

1. Chicago Conference Nov of 1973
2. Rise of the City
3. Role & Concept of Neighborhood in Am Cities
4. History Correspondence (University of Chicago)
5. Q-II Original final report
6. Queensgate II
7. Readers Digest Project
8. Ward I
9. Ward I (continued)
10. The Readers Digest of Encyclopedia of American History
11. Metropolitan Studies Institute
12. Miami Valley Ward I
13. Ohio Committee for Public Projects
14. Committee Programs for Hamilton 1971
15. Illegible – Intro
16. Miller Report (History of a Model Neighborhood) The Suburban Years - Part I
17. Miller Report (History of a Model Neighborhood) Intensification of Settlement - Part 2
18. Miller Report (History of a Model Neighborhood) The Lively Slum - Part 3
19. Miller Report (History of a Model Neighborhood) The Emergance of an Area - Part 4
20. Ward I; Youngstown State University February 20, 1973
21. Intro
22. Homer Hoyt, The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities and Supplemental Readings
23. The Urbanization of Modern America 1972
24. Daniel Drake Editing Correspondence with Mr. Gerome Grouch1968
25. Dorsey Press Letters on “Urbanization of America” November of 1966
26. Urban Blacks in the South 1865-1920 First Draft January 1973
27. Madison Conference Transcript of Panel Discussion August 1971
28. Present in the Past Manuscript and Letters from the Publisher 1968
29. Source Problems in American History Chapter XIV Boss Cox’s Cincinnati
30. Present in the Past (continued) Boss Cox’s Cincinnati: Politics and Democracy in Urban America; The Truman Doctrine and America’s Mission in World Affairs
31. Max Joe III UT. Bavaria La Mediterranes et le Monde Mediterranean a l’epoque de Philippe II
32. French Revolutions, 1789-1799
33. 18th England
34. Fr. Report

Box 7:

1. Class Notes Amer.
2. Bridenbaugh Cities in Wilderness
3. Pringle Theo Roosevelt
4. M. Beard – History of Labor
5. History of American Labor
6. Woodward The New Smith
7. Hofstaoter – Age of Reform
8. Am. Economics History
9. Special Field Reading List
10. Background Germany
11. European History 1648-1815
12. Enlightened Despots
13. Pr. Middle Classic 1945
14. George Smythe Reconsidered

Box 8:

1. Urban – Birmingham Part 1
2. Urban – Birmingham Part 2 School Survey 1923
3. A Meaning for Turner’s Frontier Part 1: Democracy in the Old Northwest
4. Defense: A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy; Individual Freedom and the Common Defense; The Fallacy of a “Preventive War”
5. Jews – Reprint from Jewish Social Studies Volume III, Number 3, 1941; Jews After the War by Reinhold Niebuhr; The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto
6. City Politics
7. Cities in History
8. Individuals
9. Higher Education
10. Government
11. Foreign Affairs
12. Fascism
13. Economics
14. The East
15. War
16. Social Sciences
17. Religion
18. Political Sciences
19. Law Constitution
20. Cities
21. Adult Education Problems of the Aged
22. Un. of Chicago Newsletter
23. History – Wilson
24. N.V. Teaching D0-2 Colloq.Historiog. – Murray
25. Historiog., Beard
26. U.D. Urban Hunt
27. C. 18. 3 1933-1960

Box 9:

1. The Rus. Tradition Under Napoleon
2. 18th Century English Politics
3. 17th Century English Politics
4. Hist. 412 Modern European Culture Notebooks
5. Dickinson; Rr.; Evolution & Prot
6. Hamilton – The City Government
7. Hamilton – Crook County
8. Hamilton – Crook County Jail
9. Individual Philanthropy June 1961
10. The United States at [illegible] – Century Charts
11. Chicago Bill of Education
12. Urban Wars Transportation Electricity
13. Evolution Before Darwin
14. Historiog. Paper
15. European Background Hist. 393 Notebooks
16. Illegible (Contains Untitled typed Manuscript)
17. War’s Bequest to the Community
18. Birmingham’s Civic Front
19. Unlabeled Photocopies

Box 10:

1. Historical Writing 17th Century
2. Writing 18th Century
3. Historical Writing 19th Century
4. Henry Haliam and Timid Liberalism
5. Smythe
6. Locke- Second Treatise
7. 19th Century English Social & Intellectual Hist.
8. 25th Century England
9. Notebook- Br. Christianity 19th
10. Notebook-20th Century Britain 432
11. Notebook- Eng. 1660-1715 305
12. Notebook- British Christianity in 18th Century (Church History)
13. Notebook- Br. Soc. and Intellectual History. 19th Century 430
14. Notebook-19th British Social and Intellectual History
15. Notebook- Intellectual Hist of Central Europe
16. Notebook- 17th Century Europe
17. Notebook- Economics
18. Notebook- Economics
19. Notebook-Revolutionary Tradition and Napoleon 352
20. Notebook- French Rec. 1789-1799 351
21. Seminar- British Intellectual History
22. History of Historical Writing
23. Special Field- 20th Century
24. American History Seminar Readings
25. OTR Revisions Pt 3 Ch. 4 first draft
26. OTR Revision Pt. 3Ch. 3 (first draft)
27. OTR Book Pt. 3 Ch 2 first draft of revision
28. OTR Book Pt. 3 Ch. 1 (First draft of revision)
29. OTR Book Pt. 3 Intro
30. OTR Book Pt. 1 Intro
31. OTR Book General Intro First Draft
32. N.U Teaching C-18-1 (1890-1916)
33. Lit. of American History 20th Century

Box 11:

1. Louisville History- Chuck Henry
2. Celebrations (Louisville)
3. Descriptions-Demographics (Louisville)
4. Education (Louisville)
5. Freedman’s Bureau
6. Government rewrites
7. Occupation and Slavery
8. Organizations
9. Politics
10. Religions
11. Riots and Disorder
12. Segregation Seclusion and race relations 
13. Urban Louisville 1869-1910
14. Urban Louisville 1912-1920
15. Urban Black Louisville (1917)
16. Urban Black NAACP members and addresses  (1918)
17. Louisville-note post ‘85
18. OTR Chronology 

Box 12:

1. New Orleans bibliographic/research citations 1890-1950

Box 13:

1. Boss Cox The New City Gallery Proofs
2. University Senate Workshop October 13, 1973
3. Charter Review 1975
4. 1973 Correspondence
5. 1974 Correspondence
6. 1975 Correspondence
7. Blum Book New Chpt. III
8. Blum Book Ch VII 2nd Draft
9. Student Papers, Correspondence, and Newspaper Articles 1972-73
10. Charter Review Communication

Box 14:

1. Democratic Party Information
2. Letters from National Personalities
3. Mann, David
4. Springer
5. Cincinnati Historical Society
6. Bicentennial
7. Cincinnati History Papers
8. Dayton- Journal Miami Valley
9. Community Organization Woodlawn-Silberman
10. Urbanization South 1800-1860 Bruce LaRose
11. Woods, W.K Bosses Reformers
12. Cincinnati: Bicentennial Assessment
13. Urban History in the United States: A Review and an Assessment (Griffen and Miller)
14. Urban University
15. Urban Blacks- Article
16. Time-McLaughlin City Article
17. Sam Hays-Urban Progressives
18. “Urbanization and Development in American History” Article and Editorial Correspondence
19. Boss Cox- Miller Articles
20. Phi Alpha Theta Talk (Thomas More College)
21. Barth- Urban Society Fort Wright
22. Urbanization and American History Development
23. Watergate
24. Goldman talk
25. Ethnicity in Cincinnati
26. Westwood Program
27. Reid and Ment Correspondence
28. Advanced Placement Talk
29. City in American History
30. Boss Cox talk
31. Ruining Rudolph or Rud’s Ready Relief
32. Cincinnatus Amer. Paper for CHA
33. The Black Experience in the Modern American City (Mohl Correspondence)
34. Ohio Archives talk
35. Urban Archives Papers 1972
36. Leonard Lecture
37. Ohio Academy Remarks
38. Book awards comm. Ohio History Association
39. Institution for Policy Research
40. Ohio Historic Sites Pres. Bd
41. Historic Conservation Board
42. Kennedy
43. World Affairs
44. Science- Medicine
45. Urban Discipline Settlements
46. Southern Cities
47. Religion- Urban Gospel
48. Percy
49. National Problems
50. National Government
51. History and Teaching
52. Extremist
53. Democrats
54. Civil Rights
55. Cities
56. Cincinnati- Historical
57. Citizens of Gilligan
58. Taft- Gilligan
59. CHARTER
60. Cincinnati Politics
61. City Politics- Cincinnati
62. Cincinnati Today Civic& Social Affairs
63. Arts
64. American Politics
65. Chicago
66. Trustee Selection
67. Academic Computer Services

Box 15:

1. United States Code Congressional Service 81st Congress – First Session 1949
2. Cincinnati Magazine May Issue
3. OTR Project; Commission – Model Cities
4. OTR Project Ruehlmann Papers
5. OTR Chronology
6. OTR Model City Notes
7. OTR Model Cities [illegible]
8. OTR Model Cities First Draft
9. Modes of Planning Chronology October 1986
10. Proceedings of the City Planning Commission November 18, 1983
11. Meeting Notice: Over the Rhine Task For October 19.1972
12. National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form for Old St. Mary’s Church July 1969
13. OTR Chronology Work Park
14. OTR Ch. XVI, Digest
15. OTR Urban Development Critique of the Over-the-Rhine Plan 1984
16. OTR CPC Documents 1985
17. Over The Rhine Comprehensive Plan December 1984
18. OTR 1984 Papers
19. Newspaper Clippings
20. OTR 1985 Notes
21. International Children’s Emergency Fund Contributions
22. United States Code Congressional and Administrative News; 93rd Congress – Second Session 1974 Volume 2
23. United States Code Congressional and Administrative News; 93rd Congress – Second Session 1974 Volume 1
24. United States Code Congressional and Administrative News; 90th Congress – Second Session 1968 Volume 1
25. The Department of Urban Development’s Involvement in the Renewal of Avondale-Corryville 1951-1996
26. Problems and Possibilities for the Greater Planning Article
27. Councilman Election 1949-1969 “People and Issues”
28. OTR PAMSS Library System
29. National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
30. Model Cities Bibliography
31. Papers for Dr. Miller

Box 16:

1. Dittos (Carbon Copies from Typewriter)
2. Hist 431 Notebook
3. Hist 422 Notebook
4. Civil War and Reconstruction 1854-1877 Notebook
5. 18th American International Hist 469
6. AM Public Domain
7. Kappa Delta Pi
8. Nichols – Franklin Pierce
9. Craven – Growth of Southern Nationalism
10. Botony IV
11. Malvin – Kansas – NEB Question
12. Carpenter – South as a Conscious Minority
13. Sectionalism and Democracy
14. Boorstin Genius of American Politics
15. Blum – Tumulty and Wilson Era
16. Simkins – Ben Tillman
17. Josephson – The Politicos
18. Recent AM Politics
19. Craven – Coming Civil War
20. New Chicago
21. Smith – Economic Development 1850 – 1920
22. Charity Abroad
23. Private Charity Rough Draft
24. Chicago Charitable [illegible], 1893-1915
25. Assistant Reports
26. Review of Barbra W. Mevell
27. Kimbrewer Administration
28. Chicago and the Free Textbook 1894-1901
29. Religion – Ethical Institution 1894-1914
30. Regulation and Content of Electricity of Chicago 1893-1914
31. University of Chicago IVDEA
32. AM Historiog
33. W.E. Doop
34. Speech; What’s the Matter with the Country
35. Macroeconomics Notes