Southeast Asia

Scope and Contents This collection consists of declassified state department correspondences to and from the Burmese government, which Professor Clymer used as research for his book, A Delicate Relationship:  The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945.  The documents provide a look into U.S Foreign policy and attitude towards Burma from the country's independence in 1948 to anti communism attitudes during the cold war to the emergence of an opposition in the 1980's,...

Scope and Contents Documents and notes from the collection of Professor Clymer chiefly on Cambodian history, politics and government. The collection also includes a few documents on other Southeast Asian countries, Thailand, Vietnam and Indochina in general. Highlights include: U.S. Department of State confidential but declassified telegrams, letters, memos, reports, intelligence briefs, and other pertinent correspondence regarding U.S.-Southeast Asia Relations, particularly those concerned with Cambodian...

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Materials used by Professor Kenton Clymer to research his third book Quest for Freedom:  The United States and India's Independence (New York:  Columbia University Press, 1995).

Scope and Contents The collection consists of notes that professor Kenton Clymer used to write his first book:  John Hay: The Gentleman as Diplomat (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975).  Hay was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, then Ambassador to Great Britain (1897-98), and Secretary of State (1898-1905).  As Secretary of State, he presided over the annexation for the Philippines, and for a few months was in charge of US policy in the Philippines.  A few months after war broke out between the...

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This collection contains 11 boxes. Each box has anywhere from 4 to 15 folders of materials.

Scope and Contents Norodom Sihanouk (31 October 1922 – 15 October 2012) was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 to 2004. He was the effective ruler of Cambodia from 1953 to 1970. After his second abdication in 2004, he was known as "The King-Father of Cambodia", a position in which he retained many of his former responsibilities as constitutional monarch. This collection contains photographs of HM King Norodom Sihanouk during presentations of Letters of Credence to the Ambassadors of...

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This collection consists of two folders in one box.  In the first folder are letters and in the second photographs.

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This collection focuses on Marybeth Clark's personal and professional life as an educator of Vietnamese. Materials include personal and professional correspondences, photographs and slides, as well as handmade artwork. A majority of the collection consists of language teaching materials and scholarly papers written by Marybeth Clark, and others, about numerous Southeast Asian Languages.

Scope and Contents The May Ebihara collection consists mostly of teaching materials and papers.  The collection also has a number of slides featuring photos from Ebihara’s travels and research in Cambodia.  The collections spans from 1959 to 1997.  The collection contains syllabi for classes taught  and supervised by Ebihara including:  Contemporary Theory, Research Methods, History & Theory, a general information SEA course, and a seminar on Classical Ethnographics.  The articles and papers are largely...

Scope and Contents The Paul J. Bennett Collection contains Dr. Bennett’s research on Burma in the form of primary and secondary sources such as newspaper articles (both clippings and photocopies) in English and Burmese, papers, handwritten notes, short stories, photos, correspondences, statements by various government agencies, and book chapters.   The collection spans from 1958 to 1989 a majority of it however, is from the 1970’s.  Topics in this collection range from Burmese history and literature, to...