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This subseries contains lecture notes handwritten by Ernest van den Haag on yellow legal size paper. This paper is very acidic and brittle. Van den Haag lectured on sociology and psychology while at the New School for Social Research from 1953 to 1980. The courses include Philosophy of Personality, The Individual in Crisis, and Popular Culture. his lectures touched on many topics in social science including democracy, postulates, and many aspects of American culture. Some materials contained in this subseries were collected in the years leading up to his lecture career including the 1930s and 1940s, but most of the lecture material is from the early 1950s through 1981.