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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 3: Papers, Drafts, 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
- Box 14
- Folder 1: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution - Chapter 1 draft
- Folder 2: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution - Chapter 2 draft
- Folder 3: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution - Chapter 3 draft
- Folder 4: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution - Chapter 4 draft
- Folder 5: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution - Chapter 5 draft
- Folder 6: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution - Chapter 6 draft
- Folder 7: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Introduction draft
- Folder 8: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Chapter 1 draft
- Folder 9: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Chapter 2 draft
- Folder 10: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Chapter 3 draft
- Box 15
- Folder 1: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Introduction draft
- Folder 2: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Chapter 4 draft
- Folder 3: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Chapter 6 draft
- Folder 4: Religious Origins of the French Revolution - Chapter 7 draft
- Folder 5: Declaration of the Rights of Man - chapter draft --- 1995
- Folder 6: Declaration of the Rights of Man - chapter draft --- 1995
- Folder 7: Correspondence regarding Declaration of the Rights of Man project --- 1990-1991
- Folder 8: Correspondence regarding Declaration of the Rights of Man project --- 1992
- Folder 9: Correspondence regarding Declaration of the Rights of Man project --- 1993
- Folder 10: Research material for Declaration of the Rights of Man project
- Box 16
- Folder 1: Article: "The Estates General as Ecumenical Council: The Constitutionalism of Corporate Consenses and the Parlement's Ruling as of September 25, 1788" --- 1989
- Folder 2: Article: "The Rejuvination and Rejection of Jansenism in History and Historiography: Recent Literature on Eighteenth Century Jansenism in French"
- Folder 3: Article: "Sur les sources religieuse et politiques de la Revolution française"
- Folder 4: Article: "Jansenisme et Revolution" --- 1990
- Folder 5: Article: "Protestantism, Catholicism, and the Religious Origins of the French and American Revolutions" --- 1991
- Folder 6: Article: "Pure Politics in Absolute Space: The English Angle of the Political History of Prerevolutionary France" --- 1997
- Folder 7: Article: "New Wine in Old Wineskins" --- 1991
- Folder 8: Article: "Civic Humanism in Clerical Garb: Gallican Memories of the Early Church and the Project of Primitivist Reform, 1719-1791" --- 2007
- Folder 9: Talk: A Critical Tribute to Dale Van Kley "Backwards, Christian Scholar", David A. Bell
- Folder 10: Evaluation of Michael Van Dam's "Between Enlightened Reform and Spiritual Revolt"
- Folder 11: Paper: "The Jansenist Constitutional Legacy in the French Revolution, 1750-1789"
- Folder 12: Book Reviews
- Folder 13: Appointment to The Ohio State University and Retirement Articles
- Folder 14: Newspaper Clippings
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