Joan S. Hult papers
Collection
0401-MDHC
Dr. Joan S. Hult (1933- ) was a professor of kinesiology and sports history at the University of Maryland from 1968 until 1996. In her early years, particularly in her own college career, she was an all-around athlete. She received a B.S from Indiana University, a Masters in Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Ph.D from the University of Southern California. She coached the women's tennis team at Maryland until she resigned in protest. Hult was a strong supporter of the Title IX Gender Equality in Sports legislation and a member of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) board before the association merged with the NCAA. She has published many books and papers on the history of women in sports, the history of the Olympic Games, and the history of sports in general. After her retirement, Hult remained active in the sports history world. This collection spans Hult's career and includes correspondence, teaching materials from undergraduate and graduate courses, articles, newspaper clippings, brochures and publications, research notes, and writings by Hult -- all of which cover a range of sports history and women's history topics.
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The collection includes correspondence, teaching materials from undergraduate and graduate courses, lecture notes, articles, newspaper clippings, AIAW notes, brochures and publications by Hult and others, yearbooks, speeches, reports, scripts, cassette recordings of speeches, VHS recordings of television programs, photographs, research notes, and writings by Hult -- all of which cover a range of sports history and women's history topics. Materials dated before approximately 1920 are generally photocopies of older material rather than originals.
The university recieved this collection in 2009 in two donations by Joan S. Hult. Sally J. Phillips donated a third accession to the collection in 2018.
Materials were re-housed into archival quality boxes. Folders were left in the order in which they were received; however, loose materials were placed in acid-free folders and placed back into the original place. Folder titles reflect what was written on original folders. Photographic materials were rehoused into non-pvc enclosures.
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