Access is granted in accordance with the
Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center.
PROVENANCE
The collection was transferred to the University Archives with the
records of the History Department in 1995.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Francis Hilary Conroy was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1919.
He received his B.S. from the Northwestern University in 1941, his AM
in 1942 and Ph.D. in 1949 both from the University of California. He
began his career as a Lecturer of Far Eastern history at the University
of California for two years before he was appointed to the history faculty
of the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. He was promoted to full Professor
in 1965. His publications include The Japanese frontier in Hawaii,
1868-1898 (1953), The Japanese seizure of Korea, 1868-1910:
a study of realism and idealism in international relations (1960),
China and Japan: search for balance since World War I (co-edited
with Alvin D. Coox, 1978), and America views China: American images
of China then and now (co-edited with Jonathan Goldstein and Jerry
Israel, 1991). Conroy retired in 1990 and was elected Professor Emeritus
of Penn.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The papers of F. Hilary Conroy consist of correspondence, 1966-1989,
recommendations, 1950-1986, student grades report, student papers, and
syllabi of courses he taught at Penn.
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