Alvin Coox papers
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists of files, photographs and audio recordings relating to the research and teaching career of military historian Alvin Coox (1924-1999), particularly pertaining to the 1939 Battle of Nomonhan between Japan and the Soviet Union. Materials include interviews, biographies, correspondence, research files and clippings, audio tapes of interviews, history lessons, etc.
A portion of files in the Coox collection have been digitized in the USC Digital Library.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1920s-1990s
Creator
- Coox, Alvin D. (1924-1999) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the East Asian Library at eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Biographical note
Alvin D. Coox, a historian of modern Japanese military history, was born in Rochester, New York, in 1924. He earned a bachelor's from New York University and received a master's in history and a doctorate in history and government from Harvard University. In the late 1940s, he taught history at Harvard and was a senior historian at the Johns Hopkins University. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spent fifteen years in Japan, including six years as an intelligence analyst for the United States Air Force. In 1964, Coox began teaching at San Diego State University, and later also served as head of the Center for Asian Studies. He retired in 1995. He wrote eight books, including "Nomonham: Japan Against Russia, 1939" (Stanford University Press, 1986). He died in 1999.
Extent
57.979 Linear Feet (54 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of files, photographs and audio recordings relating to the research and teaching career of military historian Alvin Coox (1924-1999), particularly pertaining to the 1939 Battle of Nomonhan between Japan and the Soviet Union.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Hisako Coox, 2010.
Processing Information
Parts of this collection are not fully processed. Box 55 appears to be missing.
Subject
Genre / Form
Topical
- Air Forces -- Japan -- Archival resources
- Armies -- Japan -- Archival resources
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- Russia -- Archival resources
- Khalkhin Gol, Battle of, Mongolia, 1939 -- Archival resources
- Mukden Incident, 1931 -- Archival resources
- Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu sheng, China, 1937 -- Archival resources
- Navies -- Japan -- Archival resources
- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 -- Archival resources
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the Alvin Coox papers
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Date
- 2022 November
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2023 July: Finding aid updated and materials added for Box 56 by Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated.
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries East Asian Library Repository
Doheny Memorial Library
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-1825 United States