Soldier-Statesmen of the Age of Enlightenment : records of the 7th International Colloquy on Military History = Actes du 7e Colloque international d'histoire militaire : Verhandlungen der 7 Internationalen Tagung für Militärgeschichte : Washington, D.C., 25-30 July 1982 / International Commission of Military History ; [edited by Abigail T. Siddall]
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International Colloquy on Military History (7th : 1982 : Washington, D.C.) Search this
Coming to the Americas : the Eurasian military impact on the development of the western hemisphere = Venir en Amériques: l'influence militaire Eurasiatique sur le développement de l'hémisphère accidentale = Llegando a las Américas: el impacto militar de Euro-Asia en el desarrollo del hemisferio occidental = Kommen nach Amerika: der eurasische militaerische Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der wes...
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International Commission of Military History (28th : 2002 : Norfolk, Va.) Search this
International Commission of Military History, 1975 (2 folders)
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National Museum of American History. Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research Search this
Container:
Box 2 of 7
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 377, National Museum of American History. Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research, Project Records
6.01 cu. ft. (1 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder)
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Manuscripts
Sound recordings
Date:
1962-1984
Descriptive Entry:
Lundeberg's involvement with these organizations from 1962 to 1984 is documented in his papers. Included are correspondence with colleagues regarding governance, meetings,
and publishing efforts of the organizations; papers presented at meetings by Lundeberg and his colleagues; and materials distributed at meetings or published by the groups.
Documented in particular detail are the publication of the Bibliography of the History of the Great Sea Routes by the International Commission of Maritime History; Lundeberg's
column, THE MUSEUM PERSPECTIVE in Military Affairs; the International Commission of Military History (ICMH) Colloquy on Military History, held in Washington in July 1982 and
sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Military History; and National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT) security and safety concerns, including his role as Chairman of
the Museum's Security and Fire Prevention Committee from 1971 to 1979. An audio recording from the International Conference on the History of Cartography, held in Washington,
D.C., in August 1977, is also included. Some scholarly papers and correspondence with foreign colleagues is in French or German.
Historical Note:
Philip K. Lundeberg (1923- ) received his B.A. from Duke University in 1944, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1954. After serving in the Navy, he was an Assistant
Professor at St. Olaf College from 1953 to 1955, and at the United States Naval Academy from 1955 to 1959. He came to the Smithsonian in January 1959 as a Consultant in the
Department of Armed Forces History in the Museum of History and Technology, and in June of that year was appointed Associate Curator in the Division of Naval History. From
1961 to 1984 Lundeberg was Curator of the Division in what became in 1980 the National Museum of American History (NMAH). He became a Curator in the NMAH Division of Transportation
in 1984.
Lundeberg held positions in a number of national and international professional organizations. He was President of the American Military Institute, the Council of American
Maritime Museums, and the United States Commission on Military History, as well as Chairman of the International Congress of Maritime Museums, Secretary of the International
Committee on Museum Security of the International Council of Museums, and a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Committee on Maritime Preservation.
Various United States Commission on Military History, International Commission of Military History, and National Museum of History and Technology Materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7358, Philip K. Lundeberg Papers
United States Commission on Military History, 1973-1983. Conferences of the International Commission of Military History held at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1975 and 1982 on the respective themes: "La Technique Militaire" (1975); and "Soldier Statesmen of the Age of the Enlightenment" (1982), the latter in connection with the major exhibition, "G. Washington: A Figure Upon the Stage," mounted in NMHT
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7358, Philip K. Lundeberg Papers
