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Collection Overview
Abstract
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 Note
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.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: [General Materials]],
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Series 2: Correspondence],
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Series 3: Papers, etc.],
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- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Curriculum Vitae
- Series 2: Correspondence
- Box 1
- Folder 2-12: 1967-1968, 1970-1982
- Box 2
- Folder 1-11: 1983-1988
- Box 3
- Folder 1-13: 1989-1992
- Box 4
- Folder 1-6: 1992-1993
- Folder 7: Dr. David Noebel's Speech at Calvin --- 1993
- Folder 8-11: 1994
- Box 5
- Folder 1-8: 1995-1997
- Box 6
- Folder 1-2: 1997
- Folder 3: Edward Douma Situation --- 1997
- Folder 4-8: 1998
- Box 7
- Folder 1-2: 1998
- Folder 3: Letter of Resignation Sent to Board of Trustees --- Jan 1998
- Folder 4-6: 1999
- Folder 7: Greg Alkema Situation --- 1999
- Box 8
- Folder 1-6: 2000-2003
- Box 9
- Folder 1-4: 2004-2007
- Series 3: Papers, etc.
- Box 9
- Folder 5: Faculty Discussion Group Meeting Minutes and College Employee Survey --- Apr 1998
- Folder 6: Paper: "Religion, Politics, and the Origins of the French Revolution"
- Folder 7: Paper: "60th Anniversary of Uncle Gerrit and Aunt Jennie Van Kley" --- Nov 1996
- Folder 8: Paper: "A History of the First Christian Reformed Church Grand Rapids, Michigan" --- 1957-1982
- Folder 9-10: Unidentified Manuscripts
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Unidentified Manuscripts
- Folder 2: Historical Reflection Summer --- 1992
- Folder 3: The Religious Origins of the Patriot, Ministerial Parties in Pre-Revolutionary France
- Folder 4: The Refusal of Sacraments Controversy and The Political Crisis, 1756-1757
- Folder 5: The Jansenist Constitutional Legacy in the French Pre-Revolution, 1750-1789
- Folder 6: Article: "As We See It"
- Folder 7: Paper
- Folder 8: "The Pre-Revolutionary Debate"
- Folder 9: Two Blue Notebooks
- Folder 10: Yale University Notebooks
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Yale University Notebooks
- Folder 2: Conclusion
- Folder 3: Two Yale University Notebooks
- Folder 4: Corrections
- Folder 5: Commentary on Papers by Orest Ranum and Dale Van Kley
- Box 12
- Folder 1-11: College Notes
- Folder 12: Bible Class Notes
- Folder 13: Economic Class Notes
- Folder 14: Biology Class Notes
- Box 13
- Folder 1: Calvin Bluebooks - Bible Related
- Folder 2: Calvin Bluebooks - Latin, Education, and Biology
- Folder 3: Calvin Bluebooks - English, German, and Speech
- Folder 4: Calvin Bluebooks - History and Logic
- Folder 5: Notes for Philosophy 205 --- 1960's
- Folder 6-7: Various Course Papers
- Folder 8: Calvinism 310 Class Material
- Folder 9: Research Paper: "Goldsmith- A Wordsworthian Classicist --- 1960
- Folder 10
- Item 1: High School Graduation Program --- 1959
- Item 2: Calvin Honors Convocation Program --- 1963
- Folder 11: Grade Reports, Elementary School, College
- Folder 12: Harkema Calender --- 1975
- Folder 13: Photographs
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