Dates

• Majority of material found within 1930 - 2014

Extent

1 box Linear Feet (The Dr. Thomas D. Goodrich Collection is divided into two series and includes early family correspondence as well as information pertaining to the academic career of Dr. Thomas Goodrich at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Series I contains letters to Professor L. Carrington Goodrich (1894-1986) and his wife Anne Perkins Swann Goodrich from their children Anne Goodrich Jones, Hubbard Goodrich, Sally Goodrich Hurlbert, and Thomas D. Goodrich. These letters were mostly written during the 1950s and 1960s. Although the family lived primarily in New York, its members were well traveled, and the letters were often sent to or from foreign locations, including Afghanistan, China, Germany, and Russia. Dr. L. C. Goodrich was a leading scholar in the study of the Ming Dynasty and the Dean Lung professor emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University. He was born in Peking in 1894 to missionary parents. He earned his PhD in Chinese history from Columbia in 1934. Dr. L. C. Goodrich was author of several books about China including A Short History of the Chinese People (1944), and editor of Dictionary of Ming Biography: 1368-1644. He retired from Columbia University in 1961. Series II contains correspondence, documents, and newspaper articles related to the academic career of Dr. Thomas D. Goodrich, who was a professor in the History Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1994. He earned his BA in History from the University of California in 1952. Thomas Goodrich attended Columbia University where he earned his MA in Social Studies in 1953, a certificate in Near and Middle East studies in 1968. In 1968, he earned his PhD in Ottoman and modern European history from Columbia University. Dr. Thomas Goodrich taught in the History Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 1968 until his retirement in 1994. He taught Middle Eastern history at IUP and published several works about the Ottoman Empire including “Tarih-I Hind-I Garbi veya Hadis-I Nev” [A History of the Discovery of America] Istanbul (1987), “The Ottoman Turks and the New World: A Study of Tarih-I Hind-I garbi,” and Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Americana (1990). In 1983, Dr. Goodrich received a Fulbright Senior Scholars Research Award for the 1983-1984 academic year to study the Ottoman Empire in Turkey. He spent nine months in Turkey exploring how information about the New World entered that country. Dr. Goodrich was an active member of the IUP faculty union, APSCUF (Record Group 49), and he severed as the second chair of the University Senate (Record Group 37). His service and dedication to faculty research at IUP are documented in this collection. In 2013, the Journal of Ottoman Studies dedicated two issues to Dr. Thomas Goodrich, IUP History Professor Emeritus, stating “Other Places: Ottomans Traveling, Seeing, Writing, Drawing the World – Essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich. … who taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for many years, and has been a pioneer of Ottoman Studies in the United States.” Professor Goodrich was a specialist on the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic World. He studied History at Columbia University and his dissertation was a translation of the Tarikh-i Hindi-i Garbi, a book with Ottoman information on the New World that dated to the late 16th century. This research sparked his interest in Ottoman cartography, which became his lifelong scholarly pursuit. An expanded version of his dissertation was later published as The Ottoman Turks and the New World. In 2012, a Festschrift was published in his honor in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, edited by Gottfried Hagen and Baki Tezcan. The editors spoke about the importance of Professor Goodrich' work, saying that "the study of Ottoman maps, travelogues, and cosmographical works is simply unimaginable without the groundbreaking works of Prof. Goodrich." They also highlighted his extraordinary generosity as a scholar, writing that he had "been most generous to each and all of us, in sharing his knowledge, his insights, and ... materials from his rich collection of texts and manuscripts. In this sense, he has helped to train large parts of the next generation in his field." )

Language of Materials

English