Timeline for What has happened to Lang's Files and other political texts?
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| S Feb 28 at 12:59 | history | notice added | Stefan Kohl♦ | Historical significance | |
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| Feb 14, 2021 at 21:26 | comment | added | user44143 | I would ask Jay Jorgenson, who was a close collaborator with Lang at the time of Lang’s death. ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/jay-jorgenson | |
| Feb 14, 2021 at 20:30 | answer | added | Annette Somers | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 15, 2016 at 6:02 | comment | added | Sam Lichtenstein | I was just looking at Challenges and I note that in the book's very first footnote, Lang remarks that a collection of 20 files was placed (by him?) in the McGill math library in 1996. | |
| May 24, 2015 at 7:10 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Did you ever find out, Jonathan, whether anyone holds Lang's unpublished works? I ask because I have a number of letters he wrote me in 1967-68-69. | |
| Dec 14, 2013 at 15:26 | history | edited | user9072 |
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| May 30, 2013 at 23:13 | comment | added | Chris Leary | @Emerton - Maybe. I had a friend who was writing a thesis with Lang and got fed up with either Lang or his thesis, and told Lang off with some very choice words. Half the department was outraged, the other half cheered. Lang was not universally loved, I guess. Might have influenced Yale's decision. | |
| May 30, 2013 at 22:47 | answer | added | Steven Landsburg | timeline score: 19 | |
| Nov 27, 2012 at 16:46 | comment | added | Emerton | As a side remark, I'm a bit astonished that Yale's library would decline to keep Lang's papers. | |
| Nov 27, 2012 at 14:00 | history | edited | Jonathan Chiche | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2012 at 13:51 | comment | added | arsmath | You should definitely contact the Yale library. Hosting a famous person's unpublished papers is a routine activity for American research libraries. This looks like the right place to start: library.yale.edu/mssa | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 13:43 | comment | added | Jonathan Chiche | Thanks for the comment, Theo. I have not asked the Yale librarian yet. While I am very familiar with the French system, I do not have any idea as to how to get a copy of documentation held by a US university. (I know it may sound silly... Perhaps it is the easiest thing in the world... In France, this is not.) That is one of the reasons why I am asking this question: understanding the procedure probably will take me some time, identifiying first the right institution to contact would therefore help me a lot. | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 12:24 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | I disagree with your evaluation of Lang's opinions. But I agree that they should be available, and I hope that his full archive is housed at some library somewhere, +1. Have you asked the Yale librarian? | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 11:52 | comment | added | Jonathan Chiche | Yes, indeed. Thanks for pointing that out. I don't recall the details (I don't have copies of the books to hand) but the Ladd-Lipset-related documentation in "Challenges" is extracted from "The File". | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 11:28 | comment | added | user9072 | There is also the earlier (1981) 'The File' on Ladd--Lipset survey, 700+ pages. (I did not check in detail but just from the page count I guess it should be more detailed than what is on this subject in Challenges). | |
| Mar 8, 2012 at 10:47 | history | edited | Jonathan Chiche | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 8, 2012 at 10:33 | history | asked | Jonathan Chiche | CC BY-SA 3.0 |