COLL/294 Guide to the Dale K. Van Kley Collection Van Kley, Dale K. Collection

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Guide to the Dale K. Van Kley Collection 1957/2007 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Dale K. Van Kley Collection 1957-2007 COLL/294 Van Kley, Dale K., 1941- 6.50 13 Boxes Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Professor of history at Calvin College. The collection includes class notes; lectures; pre-publication drafts of "The Jansenist and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from France, 1757-1765;" and a paper entitled "A History of the First Christian Reformed Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1957-1982."
Biographical Information:

Dale Van Kley was born on July 31, 1941. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1970. For 28 years, Van Kley Calvin College's history department. In 1998 Van Kley accepted a faculty position at Ohio State University. Van Kley sparked controversy when he wrote a letter to the Board of Trustees critiquing the former Calvin President, Gaylen Byker.

Van Kley's area of expertise is in early modern European history and religion. He has written a number of books and articles on the subjects. He even wrote a prize-winning book entitled, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791, 1996. Today Dale Van Kley is emeritus professor of history at Ohio State University.

Arrangement of Materials:

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Detailed List of Contents id33085 [General Materials] id33086 1 id33087 1 1 Curriculum Vitae id33088 Correspondence id33089 1 id33090 1 2-12 1967-1968, 1970-1982 id33091 2 id33092 2 1-11 1983-1988 id33093 3 id33094 3 1-13 1989-1992 id33095 4 id33096 4 1-6 1992-1993 id33097 4 7 Dr. David Noebel's Speech at Calvin 1993 id33098 4 8-11 1994 id33099 5 id33100 5 1-8 1995-1997 id33101 6 id33102 6 1-2 1997 id33103 6 3 Edward Douma Situation 1997 id33104 6 4-8 1998 id33105 7 id33106 7 1-2 1998 id33107 7 3 Letter of Resignation Sent to Board of Trustees Jan 1998 id33108 7 4-6 1999 id33109 7 7 Greg Alkema Situation 1999 id33110 8 id33111 8 1-6 2000-2003 id33112 9 id33113 9 1-4 2004-2007 id33114 Papers, etc. id33115 9 id33116 9 5 Faculty Discussion Group Meeting Minutes and College Employee Survey Apr 1998 id33117 9 6 Paper: "Religion, Politics, and the Origins of the French Revolution" id33118 9 7 Paper: "60th Anniversary of Uncle Gerrit and Aunt Jennie Van Kley" Nov 1996 id33119 9 8 Paper: "A History of the First Christian Reformed Church Grand Rapids, Michigan" 1957-1982 id33120 9 9-10 Unidentified Manuscripts id33121 10 id33122 10 1 Unidentified Manuscripts id33123 10 2 Historical Reflection Summer 1992 id33124 10 3 The Religious Origins of the Patriot, Ministerial Parties in Pre-Revolutionary France id33125 10 4 The Refusal of Sacraments Controversy and The Political Crisis, 1756-1757 id33126 10 5 The Jansenist Constitutional Legacy in the French Pre-Revolution, 1750-1789 id33127 10 6 Article: "As We See It" id33128 10 7 Paper id33129 10 8 "The Pre-Revolutionary Debate" id33130 10 9 Two Blue Notebooks id33131 10 10 Yale University Notebooks id33132 11 id33133 11 1 Yale University Notebooks id33134 11 2 Conclusion id33135 11 3 Two Yale University Notebooks id33136 11 4 Corrections id33137 11 5 Commentary on Papers by Orest Ranum and Dale Van Kley id33138 12 id33139 12 1-11 College Notes id33140 12 12 Bible Class Notes id33141 12 13 Economic Class Notes id33142 12 14 Biology Class Notes id33143 13 id33144 13 1 Calvin Bluebooks - Bible Related id33145 13 2 Calvin Bluebooks - Latin, Education, and Biology id33146 13 3 Calvin Bluebooks - English, German, and Speech id33147 13 4 Calvin Bluebooks - History and Logic id33148 13 5 Notes for Philosophy 205 1960's id33149 13 6-7 Various Course Papers id33150 13 8 Calvinism 310 Class Material id33151 13 9 Research Paper: "Goldsmith- A Wordsworthian Classicist 1960 id33152 13 10 id33153 13 10 High School Graduation Program 1959 id33154 13 10 Calvin Honors Convocation Program 1963 id33155 13 11 Grade Reports, Elementary School, College id33156 13 12 Harkema Calender 1975 id33157 13 13 Photographs