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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.

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This series contains brochures, invitations, and documents related to conferences and meetings that Ernest van den Haag attended. There is one conference invitation from 1949 that lists van den Haag as a speaker, but the bulk of the brochures cover the 1960s forward. Van den Haag attended and spoke at several gatherings. There is one file containing speech drafts and correspondence from a conference in 1965, but the majority of conferences with such files range from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. These conferences and meetings are mostly related to the issue of criminal justice and capital punishment. A number of conference and meeting files were assigned publication numbers since they may have been later published. These can be found in Series 2 Subseries 2.