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Richard Beringer Papers, 1964-2002
Collection Overview
Title: Richard Beringer Papers, 1964-2002
ID: OGLMC1383
Primary Creator: Beringer, Richard E. (1933-2020)
Extent: 3.0 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 05/03/1999. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Military History - Civil War, University of North Dakota - Faculty
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Richard Beringer Papers date from 1964 until 2002 and are divided into three series.
Series 1: Scholarship
Series 2: Teaching Materials
Series 3: Miscellaneous
Collection Historical Note
"Richard E. Beringer, Grand Forks, North Dakota passed away on February 19, 2020. He was born on December 29, 1933, the son of William and Martha (Wupper) Beringer in Madison, Wisconsin. He graduated from North High School in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1952 and went to Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. He completed a Masters Degree at Northwestern University in 1957 before serving in the Air Force as a Personnel Officer , 1957-60. He returned to Northwestern to work on a Ph.D. in History. He then taught a year at Oshkosh State University in Wisconsin. He married Luise Anne Templin in 1964. In 1965 they moved to California where he taught at Hayward State University. In 1968 he received a grant to learn documentary editing, working on the Jefferson Davis Papers at Rice University, Houston, Texas. In 1969, they moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota; where he taught in the Department of History at the University of North Dakota, was Chair of the department from 1993-97, and retired in 1999.
In 1979-1980 he spent a year as co-editor and author of the introduction for vol. 4 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis and in 1994 during the spring/summer semester he taught at the University of Augsburg in Germany on a Fulbright Travel Award. He was designated Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor at the University of North Dakota in 1988 and twice received the Jefferson Davis Award of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society “for distinguished research and writing on the period of the Confederate States of America”
He was the coauthor of Jefferson Davis: Confederate President; Why the South Lost the Civil War; Historical Analysis: Contemporary Approaches to Clio’s Craft; The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: A Study of the Influences of Member Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior; and a contributor to On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871.
He is survived by his wife, Luise, children, David, Middleton, Wisconsin and Jeffrey (Lisa), Carmel, Indiana, two grandchildren, Matthew and Anna, and a brother, William (Marilyn), Atlanta, Georgia. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother."
Source: Grand Forks Herald
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Dr. Beringer made numerous additions to the collection:
99-2384; September 1999
99-2412; October 1999
99-2413; November 1999
2000-2423; February 2000
2001-2493; April 2001
2001-2500; June 2001
2010-2976; March 2008
2011-3076; 2010
2011-3097; Spring 2011
2011-3143; December 2011
2012-3175; May 2012
Access Restrictions: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source: Richard Beringer, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Acquisition Method: Donation; 99-2289
Related Publications:
All publications available in Special Collections:
The anatomy of the Confederate Congress; a study of the influences of member characteristics on legislative voting behavior, 1861-1865. by Thomas Alexander and Richard Beringer. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
"Confederate identity and the will to fight" in On the road to total war: the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. by Richard Beringer. German Historical Institute, 1996.
The Elements of Confederate defeat: nationalism, war aims, and religion. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
Historical analysis: contemporary approaches to Clio's craft. by Richard Beringer. New York: Wiley, 1978.
Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. by Herman Hattaway and Richard Beringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
Preferred Citation: (Description of Item). Richard Beringer Papers. OGLMC 1383, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Processing Information: Processed by Curt Hanson in April 2021.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Scholarship, 1964-2002],
[Series 2: Teaching Materials, 1965-2002],
[Series 3: Miscellaneous],
[All]
- Series 1: Scholarship, 1964-2002
- The first series consists of materials related to the professional scholarship of Dr. Richard Beringer.
- Sub-Series 1: Books and Monographs
- Materials in this sub-series are arranged alphabetically by title.
- Box 1
- Folder 1: American National Biography: Oxford University Press, 1999
- 24 total volumes: Beringer wrote entries for "Alexander Robinson Boteler," "Williamson Simpson Oldham," "Winfield Scott," and "William Elliott Simms"
- Folder 2: The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: a Study of the Influences of Member Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior, 1861-1865. by Thomas Alexander and Richard Beringer. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
- Book Reviews
- Folder 3: The Anatomy of the Confederate Congress: a Study of the Influences of Member Characteristics on Legislative Voting Behavior, 1861-1865. by Thomas Alexander and Richard Beringer. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972.
- Awards
- Folder 4: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
- 4 volumes; Beringer wrote an entry for "Election of 1863"
- Folder 5: Encyclopedia USA: the Encyclopedia of the United States of America Past and Present. Academic International Press, 1994.
- Beringer wrote an entry for "Varina Banks Howell Davis (Wide of Jefferson Davis)"
- Folder 6: Historical Analysis: Contemporary Approached to Clio's Craft. by Richard Beringer. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1978.
- Folder 7: Historical Analysis: Contemporary Approached to Clio's Craft. by Richard Beringer. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1978.
- Correspondence, 1978-1981
- Folder 8: On the Road to Total War: the American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871. German Historical Institute, 1996.
- Beringer wrote a chapter entitled "Confederate Identity and the Will to Fight"
- Folder 9: Political Factionalism in the Confederate Congress. by Richard Beringer. Ph.D Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1966.
- Folder 10: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Correspondence, 1979-1983
- Folder 11: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Correspondence, 1984-1985
- Folder 12: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Correspondence, 1986
- Folder 13: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Correspondence, 1987-1992
- Folder 14: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Book Reviews, 1986
- Folder 15: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Book Reviews, 1987
- Folder 16: Why the South Lost the Civil War. by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William Still, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986.
- Book Reviews, 1988-1994
- Sub-Series 2: Journal Articles
- Materials in this sub-series are arranged chronologically.
- Box 1
- Folder 17: "A Profile of the Members of the Confederate Congress." Journal of Southern History, November 1967.
- Folder 18: "The Unconscious 'Spirit of Party' in the Confederate Congress." Civil War History, December 1972
- Folder 19: "'There is Too Much Talking': the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865." Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1975.
- Folder 20: "Immigrant Interviews." News Network Exchange, 1978.
- Folder 21: "Jefferson Davis's Pursuit of Ambition: the Attractive Features of Alternative Decisions." Civil War History, March 1992.
- Folder 22: "State Rights, Northern Style: the Dilemma of Timothy O. Howe." Unpublished and Undated.
- Box 2
- Sub-Series 3: Presentations
- Materials in this sub-series are arranged chronologically.
- Box 2
- Folder 5: "Crisis and Change: the Case of the Confederate Congress." Missouri Valley History Conference. Omaha, Nebraska. March 1972
- Folder 6: "Unconscious Party Building in the Confederate Congress." SHA, Miami. November 1972
- Folder 7: "Annihilation vs. Exhaustion: the Failure of Confederate Strategy." Missouri Valley History Conference. 1975.
- Folder 8: Civil War Music. Thursday Music Club, Grand Forks, February 1978, and Hunter Lecture, NDSU, Fargo, April 1978
- Folder 9: "The Confederacy: Psychological Nationalism, with Limits," Roy Roberts Visiting Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City. November 1978
- Folder 10: "Psychological Adjustment to Defeat: Confederates Assess the Cause of the Civil War." American Historical Association. December 1979.
- Folder 11: "Psychological Adjustment to Defeat: Some Confederate Ideas on the Cause and Result of the Civil War." Houston Civil War Round Table. January 1980.
- Folder 12: "Understanding Jefferson Davis: the Quest for Recognition, Status, and Deference." Civil War Round Table of St. Louis and Kansas City. March 1981.
- Folder 13: "North and South in National and International Perspectives." American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch. University of Oregon. August 1981.
- Folder 14: "Jefferson Davis: the Formative Years." Northern Great Plains History Conference. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. October 1981.
- Folder 15: "History and Film: FTE and the Box Office - the Civil War/Southern." Northern Great Plains History Conference. 1982.
- Folder 16: "The Confederacy on the Couch: the Psychology and Religion of Defeat." Civil War Round Table, Kansas City. April 1983
- Folder 17: "The Confederacy on the Couch: the Religion of Defeat." Civil War Round Table of St. Louis and Kansas City, September 1983; Phi Alpha Theta, April 1985; Atlanta Historical Society, November 1986
- Folder 18: "Southern Secession, 1861." Commentary. Southern Historical Association, Charleston, South Carolina. November 1983.
- Folder 19: "Antislavery Politics and Religion: the Liberty Party." Commentary. Missouri Valley History Conference. Omaha, Nebraska. March 1984
- Folder 20: "The Myth of Confederate Nationalism." Northern Great Plains History Conference. Bismarck, North Dakota. September 1984
- Folder 21: "American Military Traditions." Commentary. Northern Great Plains History Conference. October 1987
- Folder 22: "The Confederacy on the Couch: the Civil War and the Religion of Defeat." UND Faculty Lecture, April 1988; Hunter Lecture, NDSU, April 1988; Northland Community College, Thief River Falls, Minnesota, October 1988; University of Minnesota-Duluth, April 1989
- Folder 23: "From Minie Balls to Micro Chips: Researching and Interpreting the First Minnesota Regiment with Computers." Commentary. Northern Great Plains History Conference. Eveleth, Minnesota. September 1988.
- Folder 24: "Understanding Jefferson Davis: the Quest for Recognition, Status, and Deference." History Club Luncheon, University of Minnesota-Duluth. April 1989
- Folder 25: "The Status of the DA Program in the University of North Dakota Department of History." The DA at the Crossroads: a National Conference on the Doctor of Arts Degree. Idaho State University. October 1989.
- Folder 26: "Jefferson Davis and the Quest for Status." Civil War: Perspectives from 125 Years Conference. University of Arkansas. March 1990
- Folder 27: "Jefferson Davis and the Attractive Features of Alternative Decisions." Social Science History Association. University of Minnesota. October 1990
- Folder 28: "The Doctor of Arts." Commentary. Northern Great Plains History Conference. 1990
- Folder 29: "Varina Davis: Nineteenth Century True Woman." Historical Association of Central Louisiana. March 1991
- Folder 30: "Politics and Nationalism in the Confederacy." Commentary. Southern Historical Association. Fort Worth, Texas. November 1991
- Folder 31: "Mrs. Jefferson Davis: Nineteenth Century True Woman." Franklin Club, Grand Forks. November 1992
- Folder 32: "Grady McWhiney Roast." Southern Historical Association. Society of Civil War Historians. Orlando, Florida. November 1993.
- Folder 33: Augsburg Brown Bag, Germany. September 1994
- Folder 34: "Faculty Experience in Teaching Across Cultures." Northern Great Plains History Conference. Brandon, Manitoba. September 1995
- Folder 35: "Why the South Won the Civil War." Phi Alpha Theta. April 1988.
- Folder 36: "Books, Libraries, and Archives: the Challenge of Technology, or, Luddites Versus Nerds." Elwyn B. Robinson Lecture. UND. February 1999
- Series 2: Teaching Materials, 1965-2002
- This second series contains material from Dr. Beringer's classes, arranged in alphabetical order by course number.
- Box 2
- Box 3
- Folder 1: History 210: United States Military History, 2002
- Folder 2: History 240: the Historian's Craft, 1981-1998
- Folder 3: History 300: the Civil War/South in Film, 1992
- Folder 4: History 405: Age of Jefferson and Jackson, 1966-1998
- Folder 5: History 406: U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877, 1966-1997
- Folder 6: History 511: Research Seminar in American History, 1972-1993
- Folder 7: History 593: Readings in Civil War and Reconstruction, 1971-1997
- Folder 8: Course Materials for Augsburg, Germany, 1994
- Series 3: Miscellaneous
- This small series contains materials regarding Dr. Beringer's academic career at UND, as well as correspondence sent to and from members of Congress.
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Scholarship, 1964-2002],
[Series 2: Teaching Materials, 1965-2002],
[Series 3: Miscellaneous],
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