Helen Merrell Lynd

(March 17, 1896-January 30, 1982)

Sources

By Helen Lynd

Books

Lynd, Helen England in the eighteen-eighties; toward a social basis for freedom (London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1945) B Canaday HN385 .L9 1945 INHOUSE . Reprint (N. Y.: A. M. Kelley, 1968) S McCabe HN385 .L9

_____. Field work in college education (New York, Columbia University Press, 1945) H Magill LB2394

_____ .On shame and the search for identity [1st ed.] (London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1958]

_____. Toward Discovery (1965), ed. Bert James Loewenberg. (Bronxville, N.Y., Sarah Lawrence College, 1965).

* reviews of books by Helen Lynd

With Robert S. Lynd

Middletown, a study in contemporary American.( New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1929).

Middletown in transition: a study in cultural conflicts ( New York : Harcourt, Brace and company, 1937)

Articles

"The Nature of Historical Objectivity," Journal of Philosophy 47 (January 1954).*

"Truth at the University of Washington," American Scholar 18 (Summer 1949). *

"Realism and the Intellectual in a Time of Crisis," American Scholar 21 (w. 1951-52).*

* reprinted in Toward Discovery (1965), ed. Bert James Loewenberg.

About Helen Lynd

Websites

Helen Lynd Photographs (Exhibit on display in the Esther Raushenbush Library, Sarah Lawrence College, November 2000 through January 2001.

The First measured Century TV program created by Ben Wattenberg. FMC Program Segments 1900-"Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture" Robert and Helen Lynd Measure Muncie, Indiana

Manuscript Sources

Papers of Robert Staughton and Helen Merrell Lynd, 1895-1968 (bulk 1922-1968) 4000 items, 15 containers, 8 microfilm reels.

Oral History Archive at Columbia (interviews with Helen Lynd) Partial transcript in Helen M. Lynd, Possibilities (1983).

Obituaries

Chicago Tribune, February 2, 1982

Newsweek, February 15, 1982

Time, February 15, 1982; and

AB Bookman's Weekly, February 15, 1982.

References to Helen Lynd in Other Works

Maurice R. Stein, The Eclipse of Community(1960)

Dwight W. Hoover, Middletown Revisited (1990).

* see also discussions of Middletown and Middletown in Transition (to come)

 


*Latest revision. 9/28/01 Robert Bannister, Swarthmore College (emeritus). Locations refer to Tripod, catalogue of Swarthmore-Haverford-Bryn Mawr Libraries . Comments, corrections to rbannis1@swarthmore.edu.