Robin William Winks papers relating to the National Park Service, 1987-1997.

3.0 linear feet (3 boxes)

English

Gift of Robin William Winks, 2001.

Robin William Evert Winks was born in Indiana on December 5, 1930. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1952 and received an M.A. in Maori studies from Victoria University as a Fulbright Scholar in New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1957. Winks joined Yale's history department in 1957, serving as its chairman from 1996 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, he was the Vyvyan Harmsworth visiting professor of American history at Oxford University. He was a prolific author and in 1987 published "Cloak and Gown: Scholars in America's Secret War," an account of the Central Intelligence Agency's relationship with major American universities. Winks died in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 7, 2003.

The papers consist of reports, printed material, ephemera, and one videocassette relating to Robin William Winks's activity as a consultant for the National Park Service. The material documents two projects: Parks as Classrooms, an educational initiative developed with the National Parks and Conservation Association to introduce the National Parks to students and teachers nationwide (launched in 1992) and the transfer of the Presidio of San Francisco to the National Park Service in 1994.

Archives or Manuscripts / Video & Film

October 12, 2012

Robin William Winks Papers Relating to the National Park Service. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Robin William Winks Papers Relating to the National Park Service. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Historians United States 20th century.