Frederick C. Luebke, Papers
Title: Frederick C.
Luebke, Papers
Creator: Luebke, Frederick C.
Dates: 1957-1994 bulk 1968-1994
Quantity: 29 boxes (9 linear
feet)
Collection Number: RG 12-14-21
Language: English
Restrictions: None
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Preferred Citation: Frederick C. Luebke, Papers (RG 12-14-21). Archives & Special
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Biography:
Frederick Carl Luebke was born on January 26, 1927 in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. His
father was Fredrick John Luebke, a teacher in Lutheran parochial schools. His
mother was Martha Kretzmann, the daughter of a Lutheran clergyman. While a
student at Concordia Teachers College in River Forest, Illinois (now named
Concordia University-Chicago), he met Norma Wukasch (b. March 1, 1930), a fellow
student. They were married in Peoria, Illinois, on August 12, 1951. They are the
parents of four children: Christina McPhee (b. 1954), John "Seikai" (b. 1956),
David (b. 1960), and Thomas (b.1962)
Following his graduation from Concordia in 1950, Luebke taught in elementary
schools in East St. Louis, Illinois (1950-1951), and Pomona, California
(1951-1957). While in Pomona, he decided to abandon elementary education for a
career as a history teacher. He attended (part-time) the nearby Claremont
Graduate School, now called Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont,
California, and was awarded a master of arts degree in history in 1958. In 1957
he accepted an appointment as a history teacher in a high school in Los Angeles,
where he served until 1961. During those years, he was enrolled as a part-time
graduate student in a Ph.D. program in the University of Southern California, in
preparation for a career of teaching at the collegiate level.
In 1961, Leubke accepted an appointment as assistant professor of history at
Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, now called Concordia
University-Nebraska. During his tenure there he continued his doctoral studies
at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he received his Ph.D. degree
in 1966. In 1968, he accepted an appointment as an associate professor of
history, succeeding his mentor, Professor James C. Olson, who left UNL to become
chancellor of the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Luebke was promoted to
full professor in 1972 and was named Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor of
History by the university's Board of Regents in 1987. He retired in 1994.
His teaching field at the undergraduate level was American History, with emphasis
on the American West, the Great Plains, and Nebraska. In his graduate seminars
he emphasized Nebraska history and the immigration of European immigrant groups
and their assimilation into American society. He received an Outstanding
Teachers Award in 1983 and in 1985 he received the university's highest honor,
the Outstanding Research and Creative Activities award.
His publications include twelve books, seven of which are edited volumes, two
dozen articles, and over one hundred book reviews. During his tenure at UNL,
Luebke served as director of the Center for Great Plains Studies (1983-1988) and
as founding editor of the Center's Great Plains Quarterly (1980-1985).
Major awards include an appointment in 1974-75 as a Fulbright Research Fellow at
the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and in 1982 as a Rockefeller Foundation
Scholar-in-Residence at the foundation's study center in Bellagio, Italy. In
1992, he served as a visiting professor of history at the University of Hannover
(Germany). He has lectured at many universities in the United States and Europe,
including Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin, Yale, Kansas, Oklahoma State, University of
London, Oxford, and several universities in Germany.
Luebke has served the state of Nebraska as a member of the governing board of the
Nebraska State Historical Society and the executive committee of NSHS
foundation. He lectured widely across the state for Nebraska Humanities Council,
which gave him its Sower Award in 1990.
In 2005, Professor and Mrs. Luebke moved to Eugene, Oregon, where their son David
is a professor of history at the University of Oregon. [Luebke, 2007, July 27]
Scope and Content:
The Luebke papers pertain to his career as a teacher, Nebraska historian, and
published author. The collection covers the period from 1957 to 1994, with the
bulk of the documents relating to his time at the University of
Nebraska–Lincoln, from 1968 to 1994. The papers consist of a wide variety
of correspondence, various lectures, along with seminar and presentation
materials. Research for articles, essays, and books includes extensive
documentation for his published book, Nebraska: An
Illustrated History. Additional documents pertain to work done with
European scholars and teaching abroad, work with Ph.D. students, information
about the Center for Great Plains Studies, and multiple nominations, awards and
honors that Luebke received. Various newspaper articles, journals, and
photographs, including 4 boxes of slides, are found within the papers.
Subjects:
Luebke, Frederick C.
Center for Great Plains Studies
German Immigration
Nebraska History
University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)--
History
Presidents -- United States -- Election --
1860
Germans -- United States
Minorities -- Great Plains -- History
Great Plains -- Civilization
European Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th
century
Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th
century
West (U.S.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History --
19th century
Germans -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
Culture conflict -- Brazil -- History -- 20th
century
Riots -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 -- Brazil
Brazil -- Ethnic relations
Brazil -- History -- 1889-1930
German Americans -- History
Germans -- Brazil -- History
United States -- Emigration and immigration --
History
Germany -- Emigration and immigration --
History
Brazil -- Emigration and immigration --
History
Great Plains -- History
Human geography -- Great Plains
Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History
Nebraska State Capitol (Lincoln, Neb.)
Interior architecture -- Nebraska -- Lincoln
Decoration and ornament -- Nebraska --
Lincoln
Buildings -- Nebraska -- Lincoln
Germans -- Nebraska
Nebraska -- Politics and government
Cartography -- Great Plains
Great Plains -- Maps
Great Plains -- Discovery and exploration
Nebraska -- History
Nebraska -- History -- Pictorial works
German Americans -- Nebraska -- Political
activity
Nebraska -- Politics and government
American fiction -- History and criticism
Great Plains in literature
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Related Material and Resources: Blouet, Brian W. and Frederick C. Luebke, editors. The Great
Plains: Environment and Culture . Lincoln: Published by the
University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains Studies, University
of Nebraska–Lincoln, c1979. (F591 .C84 1977)Faulkner, Virginia. editor, Frederick C. Luebke. Vision and
Refuge: Essays on the Literature of the Great Plains. Lincoln:
Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great Plains
Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, c1982. (PS124 .V5)Luebke, Frederick C. The Political Behavior of an Immigrant
Group: the Germans of Nebraska. 1966. (Td Luebke F C 1966). For
online access to Luebke's dissertation visit the University Libraries' Digital
Commons ___________________.Immigrants and Politics; the Germans of
Nebraska, 1880-1900. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1969]
(F675.G3 L8)___________________. Ethnic Voters and the Election of Lincoln. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1973, c1971. (JK526 1860 .L84 1973x)___________________. Bonds of Loyalty; German-Americans and
World War I. Dekalb, Northern Illinois University Press [c1974]
(D620 .L83 c.2)___________________. Ethnicity on the Great Plains.
Lincoln: Published by the University of Nebraska Press for the Center for Great
Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, c1980. (F596.2 .E86)___________________. Germans in Brazil: a Comparative
History of Cultural Conflict during World War I . Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, c1987.(F2659.G3 L84 1987)___________________, Frances W. Kaye, and Gary E. Moulton, editors. Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of
Cartography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press; Lincoln: Center
for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, c1987. (GA401
.M37 1987)___________________. Germans in the New World: Essays in the
History of Immigration . Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
c1990.(E184.G3 L9 1990)___________________. A Harmony of the Arts: the Nebraska
State Capitol . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1990.
(NA4413.L56 H37 1990)___________________. Nebraska : an Illustrated
History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1995, c2005 (F666
.L83 1995, F666 .L83 2005)___________________, editor, University of New Mexico. Center for the American
West.European Immigrants in the American West:
Community Histories. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,
c1998.(F596.3.E95 E87 1998) |