The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical note: "Documenting the Cold War: John Lewis Gaddis," by Meredith Hindley. Humanities, vol 27, no 1, January/February 2006. "John Lewis Gaddis," Marquis Who's Who Online. www.marquiswhoswho.com Accessed March 17, 2009. "John Lewis Gaddis," Yale University History Department webpage. www.yale.edu/history Accessed March 17, 2009.

On deposit by John Lewis Gaddis. Materials were received periodically from 1982-2012. A large cache of interview transcripts and recordings were deposited at the Mudd Library in January 2012 [ML.2012.002].

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Series 2: Interview Recordings (Box 2) contains 40 audio cassette tapes and 65 CDs.

This collection was first processed by Adriane Hanson in March 2009. Finding aid written by Adriane Hanson in March 2009 and updated by Maureen Callahan on April 16, 2013 to incorporate a January 2012 accession. Interview transcripts were interfiled alphabetically with Series 1, mp3 recordings were incorporated alphabetically in Series 2, and CDs were copied to web-based storage at this time.

A collection at the Mudd Manuscript Library of particular relevance to the John Gaddis Papers on George Kennan is the George F. Kennan Papers. The Mudd Manuscript Library also has numerous other collections related to the Cold War and to United States diplomacy which can be located by selecting the subject "Cold War" or "Diplomacy" on the Princeton University Finding Aids Website.

No materials were separated from this collection during processing in 2009 or 2012.

People

• Gaddis, John Lewis
• Kennan, George F. (George Frost) (1904-2005)

Organization

• United States. Foreign Service
• Institute for advanced study Princeton, N.J.

Subject

• Communism -- Soviet Union
• Cold War
• Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Soviet Union
• International relations

Place

• Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
• United States -- Foreign relations.
• United States -- Politics and government. -- 20th century

Publisher

Public Policy Papers

Finding Aid Author

Adriane Hanson

Finding Aid Date

2009

Sponsor

These papers were processed with the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

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