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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Riborg Mann Papers, #1048, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Charles Riborg Mann of Washington, D.C., December 1945.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Mann, Charles Riborg, 1869-1942.
• Military education--United States--History--20th century.
• Military engineers--Education--United States--History--20th century.
• National American Council.
• Scientists in government--United States--History--20th century.
• United States--Armed Forces--Officers--Training of--History--World War, 1914-1918.
• United States--Military policy--20th century.
• United States. War Dept. Committee on Education and Special Training.

Charles Riborg Mann (1869-1942), native of New Jersey, was a physicist and engineer, and a civilian adviser in the United States War Department during World War I as a member of the Committee on Education and Special Training.

The collection includes memoranda, speeches, clippings, and other papers of Charles Riborg Mann, a physicist and engineer, chiefly relating to his service as a civilian adviser in the United States War Department during World War I, particularly as a member of the Committee on Education and Special Training. These papers deal with such topics as officer training, engineering education, the National American Council, and national defense following World War I. There are also some loose items largely on universal training, technical education, illiteracy, national defense following World War I, and officer training and student army training corps dated 1918.