John A. DeNovo Papers

Author of the 1963 work American Interests and Policies in the Middle East, 1900-1939, DeNovo assembled a collection consisting primarily of research materials for a proposed second volume to cover the years from 1939 to 1950. There are extensive research notes and correspondence about the role of Harold Ickes in the development of oil policy and Arabia, as well as on the Middle East origins of the Cold War.

The collection consists of drafts, notes and outlines, bibliographies, published papers, lecture files, correspondence with other scholars, book reviews, and copies of documents. It includes photographic slides taken by DeNovo documenting a 1963 trip to the Middle East, literature collected by DeNovo on the trip, and one photograph of DeNovo and others at the Summer Institute (American Association for Middle Eastern Studies). It also includes an unidentified audio reel and some unidentified microfilm.