Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1879-1989 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
108.00 Boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in Kalona, Iowa, Guy F. Hershberger (b. December 3, 1896; d. December 29, 1989) began teaching history at Goshen College in 1925, where he was head of the Peace Society. He served as chairman of the (Mennonite Church) Committee on Economic and Social Relations (Industrial Relations) 1939-1965 and was author of numerous books on issues of war, nonresistance and social concerns. He was an editor on the board of the Mennonite Historical Society, the Mennonite Quarterly Review (MQR) and Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History (SAMH). He served as MQR editor, 1963 - 65. Hershberger was the leading interpreter of Anabaptist-Mennonite history, with a view to applying this tradition of faith and history for his day, attempting to make it practical within the current social and political context(s).
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
"Hershberger had earlier turned over materials to the Archives at various times, stating that such were no longer current for his purposes (e.g., his First World War collection, and half of his Quaker materials). He held on, consciously, to those materials, however, that he felt would feed into the one major project he was hoping to complete in his lifetime, namely, "Called to Maturity." These specific units of material (and others as well) have been retained, below, in their original groupings, in order to preserve GFH's thought as well as possible, in this, his last planned, but unfinished project, which in effect was to be an attempt at interpreting the Mennonite scene since ca. 1860. (Approximately 35 percent of the GFH Collection had been added during Hershberger's life; about 65 percent, after his death.)" - Leonard Gross, February 18, 1998.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material is open to the public.
Conditions governing reproduction
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright not owned by the Mennonite Church USA Archives.
Language of material
- English
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Alternative identifier(s)
UB Basement
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Name access points
- Goshen College (Subject)
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Language(s)
- English