Richard Ullman Papers, 1916-2006 (mostly 1960-2005)

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Creator:

Ullman, Richard H. (Richard Henry)

Title:

Richard Ullman Papers

Repository:

Public Policy Papers

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/d791sj92t

Dates:

1916-2006 (mostly 1960-2005)

Size:

6 boxes

Storage Note:

Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Box 1-6

Language:

English

Abstract: Richard Ullman (1933-2014) was a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. The collection documents Ullman's career as an academic, his service with the U.S. State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations, and his process of researching and publishing the three-volume Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

The Richard Ullman Papers document Ullman's career in the study of international relations and foreign policy, namely his service with the U.S. State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and his work in academia. The collection contains records on Ullman's involvement with the CFR's 1980s Project and with the State Department's Kosovo History Project. The collection also includes materials related to Ullman's first major scholarly publication, the three-volume Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971, as well as correspondence and subject files pertaining more generally to his later academic career.

Please see the series descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual series.

Arrangement

The collection has been intellectually arranged into four series.

Collection Creator Biography:

Ullman, Richard H. (Richard Henry)

Richard Ullman (1933-2014) was a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Ullman attended Harvard University for his undergraduate degree. He graduated from Harvard in 1955 and went on to earn his doctorate from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he was mentored by the historian and diplomat George Kennan. Ullman's thesis, Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1971, became the basis for a three-volume series that was his first major academic publication.

After first teaching at Harvard, Ullman became a faculty member at Princeton University in 1965, a position he would hold for over four decades. He served as acting dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1969 and as associate dean from 1968 to 1971. Ullman also spent some of his early career in the federal government, working for the National Security Council in 1967 and for the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1967 to 1968.

Ullman worked at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 1973 to 1979. During this time, he served as director of the Studies Department and was involved with the 1980s Project in several capacities, serving as director of the Project, chairman of the Coordinating Group, and as a senior fellow with the Project. In addition to his work at the CFR, Ullman was a member of The New York Times editorial board from 1977 to 1978 and the editor of Foreign Policy from 1978 to 1980.

Ullman worked for the Department of State from 1999 to 2000, where one of his main duties was serving as director of the Kosovo History Project. He became an emeritus professor at Princeton in 2002. Over his lifetime, Ullman authored hundreds of papers and articles on foreign policy.

Richard Ullman died on March 11, 2014 at age 80.

Collection History

Acquisition:: This collection was donated by Gail Ullman in January 2016. The accession number associated with this donation is ML.2016.002.
Appraisal: An unannotated copy of The Manufacture of Armaments by Philip Noel-Baker was returned to the donor.
Processing Information: This collection was processed by Rachel Van Unen in March 2016 at the time of accessioning. A folder list was created and all materials were described in a finding aid. Some materials were reboxed or refoldered, but no physical rearrangement was done at this time.

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