Historian of slavery, the Civil War, and reconstruction, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1983 :
oral history transcript /
Kenneth M. Stamp ; with an introduction by John G. Sproat. Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
1998.
Description
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English
- Summary
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Family and youth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; studies in history at University of Wisconsin: radical politics of the 1930s, pacifism, graduate studies with Professor William Hesseltine, influence of historian Charles Beard; teaching during World War II at the University of Arkansas and University of Maryland, colleagues Richard Hofstadter and C. Wright Mills; professor of history at Berkeley, 1946-1983: departmental governance, faculty hiring and promotions, affirmative action efforts, loyalty oath controversy; issues of civil rights and civil liberties at UC: reflections on Free Speech Movement and anti-war protests of 1960s-1970s; research, writing, and teaching on slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction; reflections on historiography and changing interpretations of the past.
- Note
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Forms part of: University History Series, Department of History at Berkeley.
Also available online.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as Phonotape 2976 C:1-19.
- Physical Description
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Phonotapes:
19 sound cassettes.
Transcript:
1 v. (x, 313 p.) :
ports. ;
28 cm.
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