Summary: | Contains personal and professional correspondence, notes, and manuscripts. Papers document McLaughlin's interest in improving the quality of teaching history and teacher training; the role of the historian in American society, in particular during and after World War I; and the writing of constitutional history. Correspondents include George Adams, Henry Steele Commager, Edward Corwin, William Edward Dodd, Max Farrand, Albert Bushnell Hart, John Franklin Jameson, Waldo Gifford Leland, James Harvey Robinson, James Thomson Shotwell, Frederick Jackson Turner, Carl Van Doren, and Claude Halstead Van Tyne.
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