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Southwestern Collection
are components of the Center for American History. Association mem-
ber Don E. Carleton, the J. R. Parten Fellow in the Archives of Ameri-
can History and previously the director of the Barker Center, has been
named the new center's director.
Announcing the formation of the center, university president
William H. Cunningham said, "The Center for American History will
have a major role, like other university library research collections and
programs, in supporting the wider community of scholarship. It will be
a sponsor or cosponsor of conferences, public exhibitions, symposia,
oral history projects, publications, fellowships, and grant-funded ini-
tiatives." General Libraries director Harold W. Billings said the new
center will give the university's special collections a higher profile
among researchers. "The university and the General Libraries are at
some disadvantage because a number of special collections and related
programs located in the Barker Center are not recognized as widely as
they should be because they are part of an apparently state-focused
special collection, the Barker Texas History Center," Billings said. "The
university, however, has developed significant collections related to the
American historical experience that document events and processes
that are truly national in scope and significance."
The center's holdings include the Congressional History Collections,
with the papers of more than forty-five former members of Congress;
one of the nation's largest archival collections on the history of the
southern United States, including the Natchez Trace Collection and the
George W. Littlefield Southern History Collections; a large archive
documenting the development of science and mathematics in the
United States; an extensive rare book library of Western Americana;
the Walter Cronkite papers; the CBS News archive; the James Farmer
papers; the New York Cotton Exchange archive; the Pennzoil/Getty/
Texaco Collection; the Field Foundation archive; an Oral History Pro-
gram, and collections located in the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum
in Bonham. "The Center for American History will bring together and
make available in one location national-in-scope collections and activi-
ties as well as those Texas-related programs of the Barker Texas His-
tory Center and the University of Texas Archives," Billings said. "Such
a restructuring will improve our ability to manage these nationally im-
portant resources and will further enhance and encourage scholarly re-
search by making them more widely known and accessible." Carleton
said that "although the principal mission of the Center for American
History will be to build, promote, and further enhance the General Li-
braries' considerable body of primary research material in all fields of
U.S. history, our focus will continue to be on those areas in which we
have special strength: the history of Texas, the South, the Southwest,513
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