Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Bernard G. Hoffman ethnohistory papers, Collection #C0091, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.

Acquisition Information

Unknown.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff. EAD markup completed by Eron Ackerman and Jordan Patty in August 2009. Revised by Amy Blake in 2018.

Biographical Information

Bernard G. Hoffman earned a B.A. in 1946 from the University of Montana and a Ph.D. in 1955 from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked in 1955 and 1956 as a research analyst with the United States Department of Justice Indian Claims Section, in 1957-1958 as a research associate of the American University Foreign Area Study Division, in 1958-1964 as a research analyst for the National Science Foundation Foreign Service Information Program, and in 1964-1965 as head of the National Science Foundation's Course Content Improvement Program. In 1965 he joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park, specializing in eastern American Indians from Appalachia to eastern Canada.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of ethnohistory manuscripts, including publications and research materials for the book "Cabot to Cartier: Ethnohistory of Northeastern North America, 1497-1555."

Arrangement

Organized by subject and chronologically.

Related Material

Special Collections and Archives also holds books on North American colonial history.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• America -- Discovery and exploration
• Ethnohistory
• Ethnology -- North America
• Manuscripts
• North America -- Historical geography