ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA

JACKSON P. HERSHBELL PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL # 1099

DATES: 1966, 1970

SIZE: .25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The Jackson P. Hershbell Papers were transferred from University Archives to the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection in July 1987 (Acc.#87-1539) and November 20, 2000 (Acc.#2000-2470).

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Jackson Paul Hershbell was born in November 1935 in Northampton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College with a Bachelor’s degree in 1955, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master’s degree in 1956. He received a PhD in Philosophy and Classics from Harvard University in 1964.

Hershbell became an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Humanities at the University of North Dakota in 1966. He remained in this position until 1969, when he accepted a position at the University of Minnesota.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The Jackson P. Hershbell Papers date from 1966, and consist of lecture notes from his Humanities course in 1966. Also included is a reprint of a journal article authored by Hershbell entitled "Hesiod and Empedocles." it appeared in the January 1970 edition of The Classical Journal.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder

1. Introduction to the Humanities
2. The Iliad
3. Homer and Greek Religious Thought
4. Pre-Socrates and the Rise of Science
5. Athens: the Fifth Century and Its Empire
6. Socrates and Socratic Method
7. Socrates and Athenian Philosophy
8. The Greek Drama
9. Sophocles
10. Plato and the Republic
11. Plato
12. Aristotle
13. The Romans
14. "Hesiod and Empedocles." The Classical Journal. January 1970

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