The Papers of Harland Nelson, 1960-1994 | Luther College Archives

Collection Overview

Title: The Papers of Harland Nelson, 1960-1994Add to your cart.

ID: LCA/RG15/Nelson, H

Primary Creator: Nelson, Harland S

Extent: 12.0 Linear Feet. More info below.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Documentation consists of academic affairds; course materials; lectures; personal papers.

Collection Historical Note

Harland Nelson was a Professor of English at Luther College for 30 years from 1962 until he retired in 1992. During his time at Luther, Nelson served as a Fulbright Professor in the 1967-1968 and 1972-1973 school years in Bergen, Norway and Innsbruck, Austria respectively. During 1981-1986, Nelson directed a four college consortium consisting of Luther, Coe, Cornell, and Grinnell. This consortium was funded by the Kellogg Foundation.

Biographical Note

Graduated from Concordia College; earned a MA from Washington State University; earned a PhD from the University of Minnesota; taught English at Luther College, 1962.

Administrative Information

Repository: Luther College Archives

Alternate Extent Statement: 21 boxes

Use Restrictions: Though we may hold the property rights, Luther College Archives does not hold the copyrights for all materials. Individuals may use materials for non-commercial, private use, but commercial users must secure permissions from the copyright holders and/or Luther College Archives to reproduce, publish, or quote protected materials and photographs. For more information about the Luther College copyright and fair use policy, please visit https://www.luther.edu/library/copyright

Preferred Citation: Cite unpublished materials: Harland Nelson Papers, RG15 Manuscripts, Luther College Archives, Decorah, Iowa

Finding Aid Revision History:

6/15/24: Abby Bates updated copyright policy link.

11/22/19: EC updated the preferred citation.


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Series 1: Teaching FilesAdd to your cart.
Box 1: Lectures, 1969-1991Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Paideia Lecture Notes 1, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Paideia Lecture Notes 2, 1989-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Paideia Lecture Notes F88, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Paideia Lectures S89, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Paideia Lectures S90, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Paideia Lectures S91, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Paideia Pedagogy, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Paideia Handouts/Prints, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 9: NEH Paideia Project, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 10: English 40 Notes S83, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 11: English 40 Dev. Writing Skills F83, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 12: English 40 Notes Summer 84, 1984Add to your cart.
Folder 13: English 40 Notes F84, 1984Add to your cart.
Folder 14: English 40A Notes F86, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 15: English 31 Fall 75-76, 1975-1976Add to your cart.
Folder 16: English 31 Mod. Fics. S87, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 17: English 31 Notes S88, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 18: English 31 Notes S89, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Bellow Story, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 20: English 31 Paper Prompts, Writing Comments, Tests, 1969-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 21: English 31 Notes J90, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 22: English 31 Notes F90, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 23: English 31 Notes F91, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Notes January, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 25: English 31 Relevant Newspaper Clippings, 1987-1989Add to your cart.
Folder 26: English 31 Mid-Term, Tests, and Paper Topics, 1969-1972Add to your cart.
Folder 27: English 31 Study Questions, Paper Topics, 1976-1982Add to your cart.
Folder 28: English 31 Notes F91, 1991Add to your cart.
Box 2: Misc. Files, 1960-1998Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Clayborough, 1981-1998Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Board of Regents, 1981-1991Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Journal of Faculty Opinion, 1982-1983Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Ebert; Why I Love Black and White, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Einsentein's Analytic TheoryAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: The Nuremburg TrilogyAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: The Man Who Would Be King, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Leni Riefensthal, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Edwin S. Porter and the Great Train RobberyAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: The Riech ChancellorAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: American ConfettiAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: An Occurance at Owl Creek BridgeAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Bierce ChickamaugaAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: The African QueenAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Jewish Writing in U.S.Add to your cart.
Folder 16: Bellow "Some Notes on Recent American Fiction"Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Photocopied Articles, n.d.Add to your cart.
Folder 18: Meaning of Swift's "Description of a City Shower", 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 19: "Do Re Mi" Woody GuthrieAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: RAJ IntoductionAdd to your cart.
Folder 21: Modern FictionAdd to your cart.
Folder 22: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. BrownAdd to your cart.
Folder 23: How the Poor DieAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: Paris Review Fall, 1966Add to your cart.
Folder 25: Carrers Conference Fall, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 26: Letter to English Majors, 1993Add to your cart.
Folder 27: Careers ConferenceAdd to your cart.
Folder 28: Careers Conference Communication, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Fall Careers, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 30: Careers Conference, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 31: Final Examinations, 1960Add to your cart.
Folder 32: Fall Careers, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 33: Fall Careers Conference, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 34: Prospective Participants, 1991-1992Add to your cart.
Folder 35: J-Term, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 36: Corresponding ExpensesAdd to your cart.
Folder 37: CLEP Correspondence, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 38: J-Term Syllabi, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 39: J-Term Study Question, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 40: J-Term AM Roll, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 41: J-Term Paideia 2 50A-F,F,F Lectures, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 42: J-Term Paideia 2 50A-F,F,F (DISC), 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 43: China Course Notes and Bibliography, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 44: CORE Lectures etc.Add to your cart.
Folder 45: J-Term Paideia Arrangements, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 46: Ag./Hung. BibliographyAdd to your cart.
Folder 47: J-Term Paideia Notes, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 48: Paideia 50B Test Prep, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 49: Sustainable AgricultureAdd to your cart.
Folder 50: Organic Farming in the Corn BeltAdd to your cart.
Folder 51: J-Term, 1992Add to your cart.
Folder 52: Dickens Studies AnnualAdd to your cart.
Folder 53: Publications CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Box 3: J-Term London Theatre, 1982-1989Add to your cart.
Folder 1: J-Term, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 2: UMALE ManualAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: J-Term Itenerary, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 4: UMALEAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Theatre ProgramsAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: UMALE J82, 1982Add to your cart.
Folder 7: UMALE CorrespondenceAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: UMALE, 1986Add to your cart.
Box 4: Course Materials: English 66, 68, 1977-1989Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Victorian Bibliography, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 2: The Crystal and the Men of 1851Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of WorkAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Evangelical ConscienceAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: The Descent of ManAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Utopia Around the CornerAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Romanticisim as a Modern TraditionAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: The England of Charles DickensAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: History of EnglandAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Apologia Pro Vita SuaAdd to your cart.
Folder 11: ContrastsAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Of The Real Nature of Greatness of StyleAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: The Great ExhibitionAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Homes and HabitsAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: On Coleridge and BenthamAdd to your cart.
Folder 16: Work and WagesAdd to your cart.
Folder 17: English 66 Fall Notes, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 18: English 66 Fall Notes, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Victorian (Misc.), 1971Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Victorian: Preparation, 1967-1983Add to your cart.
Folder 21: English 66 Fall Notes, 1985Add to your cart.
Folder 22: London-Pictorial Map, 1871Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Photocopy Masters and Handouts-Victorian LiteratureAdd to your cart.
Folder 24: English 66 Fall Prep, 1985Add to your cart.
Folder 25: English 66 Fall Notes, 1987Add to your cart.
Folder 26: English 66 Victorian Literature, 1983Add to your cart.
Folder 27: English 66 Notes, 1981Add to your cart.
Folder 28: English 66 Notes, 1981Add to your cart.
Folder 29: Victorian Literature Notes, 1979Add to your cart.
Folder 30: English 66 Fall Notes, 1977Add to your cart.
Folder 31: English 67 Spring Notes, 1980Add to your cart.
Folder 32: English 67 Spring Notes, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 33: English 67 Spring Notes, 1987Add to your cart.
Box 5: Class Notes, 1972-1990Add to your cart.
Folder 1: English 85 Dickens' Prophetic Novels Spring, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Spring Seminar Notes, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Dickens J-Term, 1976Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Dickens' Women, Spring, 1975Add to your cart.
Folder 5: J-Term Dickens, 1975Add to your cart.
Folder 6: J-Term, Dark Satanic Mill, 1972Add to your cart.
Folder 7: J-Term, Orwell, 1984Add to your cart.
Box 6: Agriculture Notes/Slides, 1979Add to your cart.
Item 1: Slides and Notes-Rural People/Community, 1979Add to your cart.
Item 2: Agriculture and World Hunger-"Acreage Control" through "Farm Economicals"Add to your cart.
Item 3: Agriculture and World Hunger-"Farm Exports" through "Price Supports"Add to your cart.
Item 4: Agriculture and World Hunger-"Resource Problems" through "Tillage Methods"Add to your cart.
Item 5: Clippings-Misc., Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Arms, Transportation, ArmsAdd to your cart.
Box 7: Paideia, 1992, 1994Add to your cart.
Box 1: Paideia I-27, Fall, HSN, 1994Add to your cart.
Item 1: Paideia I Reader, 1994Add to your cart.
Box 2: Paideia 50B, January (Sust. Ag.), 1992Add to your cart.
Box 8: Class Notes, 1974-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Interim: The Thirties January Notes, 1974Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Film: Planning Materials, 1977-1984Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Film Misc.Add to your cart.
Folder 4: English 42 Fall Notes, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 5: English 42 New Viewing Notes I, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 6: English 42 New Viewing Notes II, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 7: English 42 Tests/Exams/QuizesAdd to your cart.
Box 9: Class Notes, 1986-1994Add to your cart.
Folder 1: English 42 Notes, 1994Add to your cart.
Folder 2: English 42 Notes, 1990Add to your cart.
Folder 3: English 42 Notes, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 4: English 42 Notes, 1986Add to your cart.
Folder 5: English 40 Notes, 1991Add to your cart.
Folder 6: English 40 PREPAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Paideia Lectures, 1989Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Paideia I Materials, 1988Add to your cart.
Folder 9: Paideia I Notes, 1993Add to your cart.
Box 10: Kellogg Consortium, 1992Add to your cart.
Originally Accession 2017-062.
Folder 1: Kellogg Foundation PapersAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Lois Phillips Hudson ProgramAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Paideia 2 50B Correspondence, 1992Add to your cart.

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