Bruce Mazlish personal archives

The Bruce Mazlish personal archives consists of research files, correspondence, notebooks, teaching materials, and material relating to professional organizations including the Toynbee Foundation.

Research files comprise the bulk of the collection and were created and collected by Mazlish. Many of these files relate to research undertaken for writing and teaching. Much of the material is published by third parties with handwritten notes by Mazlish. There are also drafts and original writing present. Some of the research files are in alphabetical order by topic. Research projects represented include but are not limited to research on New Global History, Globalism, psychohistory, narcissism, Richard Nixon, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mills. Research files date from 1919 to 2016.

Correspondence is present throughout the collection and dates from 1950 to 2012. It consists largely of conference planning (particularly the many Global History conferences Mazlish himself organized), letters to and from publishers and scholarly journals, intellectual discussions and exchanges with other professionals, appeals for grants and donations for many of the organizations with which he was involved, personal friendly correspondence with colleagues, professional references written for past students and employees, and extensive materials relating to the running of the Toynbee Foundation and the issuing of the Toynbee Prize.

There are also course materials such as exams, assignments, and lecture notes. MIT courses present include humanities courses 21.04, 21.05, 21.549, 21.515, 21.355, and 21.386. Other instruction material includes presentations in higher education and at conferences, summer courses, and group studies. Course materials date from 1950-2003.

Material from Mazlish's time on the Board of Trustees and President of the Toynbee Foundation is found at the end of the collection. This material dates from 1972 to 2014.