Processing made possible by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
Francis Hillary Conroy was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1919. He began his formal education at Northwestern University, earning a B.S. in 1941, and continued at the University of California, where he earned an M.A. in 1942 and a Ph.D. in 1949. After completing his dissertation he began an extensive teaching career, first as a Lecturer of Far Eastern History at the University of California, and two years later as a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He continued at Penn. until his retirement in 1990, whereupon he was elected Professor Emeritus.
Conroy has written extensively Asian American history. His publications include;
The papers of F. Hilary Conroy consist of sundry material from his teaching and research files, including but not limited to correspondence (1972-1985), newspaper clippings (1972-1988), and various publications from Asian American associations, such as the Asian American Council of Greater Philadelphia, the Association for Asian Studies, the Interagency Task Force on Indochina Refugees, and the Center for Migration Studies.
There are also numerous essays written by students of Conroy while he was a Professor at Penn. His correspondence reveals that these essays were of particular interest to Conroy and were filed for his future reference. The essays are written on various topics in Asian History, such as,
The organization of this collection remains similar to the condition in which it was received. Some individual folders, however, were overfilled with material, requiring them to be divided among numerous folders. In separating the material, related items were grouped and housed together (sometimes in more than one folder), while individual booklets were each given separate folders. For organizational sake, all of the material has been arranged into chronological order.
The collection is open for research.
Gift of F. Hilary Conroy, 1990.
Accession number: M90-60.
Cite as: [Indicate item, box and folder #s here], F. Hilary Conroy Papers (Collection 3018), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
F. Hilary Conroy, (1919- ) Papers. 1945-1989. University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania
Books
Bock, Deborah L., et. al.
Buddhist Missionary Office.
Carlton, Thomas Owen and Ada Horowich.
Carlton, Thomas Owen and Ada Horowich.
Ching, Frank.
Ching, Frank, J.P. Chan, L.F. Inada and S. Wong.
Conroy, Hilary.
Conroy, Hilary and T. Scott Miyakawa, eds.
Editorial Section of the Hawaii Educational Association.
Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.
Elkington, David C.
Fukutake, Tadashi.
Government Printing Office.
Hansen, Arthur A. and Betty E. Mitson.
Hawley, Sandra M.
Hawley, Sandra M.
Hom, Gloria Sun, ed.
Ichioka, Yuji.
Ichioka, Yuji, et. al.
Irons, Peter.
Irwin, Yukiko.
Jacobs, Paul and Saul Landau.
Kihara, Ryukichi, ed.
Koh, Hesung Chung.
Lee, Chong-Sik.
Lee, Everett S.
Lin, Che-Hwei.
Lou, Dennis W.
Lyman, Stanford.
Lyman, Stanford M.
Ma, Margaret Ching-Fong.
Marie, Ellen.
Mcfadden, Joe.
Miller, Stuart Creighton.
Miyakawa, T. Scott.
Modell, John, ed.
Morita, Sakae.
Moriyama, Alan T.
Nakamura, N.N. and Ron Hirano.
Nash, P.T., C.W. Hawkins and D. Coyne.
Nehrer, Roger A.
Okahata, James H.
Patterson, Wayne K.
Philadelphia Social Studies Council.
Planck, Jane.
Rothenberg, Harry I.
Sato, Janet.
Sen, Sondra.
Suckle, Margery.
Sung, Betty Lee.
Tachiki, Amy and Eddie Wong, Franklin Odo, with Buck Wong, eds.,
Takaki, Ronald.
Tamarin, Alfred.
Thomas, Dorothy Swaine and Richard S. Nishimoto.
Tsutsumi, Takashi.
Tung, William L.
Yoshimori, Sane yuki.
Newspapers
Microfilm
19th Century Japanese Immigration, Archives of Hawaii.