Columbia Teachers College
Where was J. Fred MacDonald educated from 1964 to 1969?
J . Fred MacDonald John Frederick MacDonald ( 14 March 1941 – 9 April 2015 ) was a professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University , and an archivist of historical films . Biography . MacDonald was born in New Waterford , Nova Scotia , Canada a small coal-mining town on Cape Breton Island ( March 14 , 1941 ) . His parents , Murray Dodd MacDonald and Caroline Pinkerton MacDonald , migrated to the United States in 1944 : first to Boston , then in 1946 to Hawthorne , California , a suburb of Los Angeles . He was educated in local public schools , graduating from Leuzinger High School ( in neighboring Lawndale , California ) in 1959 . He received a BA in history in 1963 and a MA in 1964 , both from the University of California at Berkeley . He joined the Peace Corps in 1964 and was trained at Columbia Teachers College for educational service in Nigeria . Returning to California , he entered the University of California at Los Angeles as a graduate student in European history . In 1967 he was granted a Fulbright Fellowship , and was the first American scholar to have access to the personal papers of Théophile Delcassé , the French Minister of Foreign Affairs 1898-1905 . This resulted in his doctoral thesis , Camille Barrère and the Conduct of Delcassian Diplomacy in Italy 1898-1902 . He received his Ph.D . from UCLA in 1969 . Academic work . MacDonald was appointed Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University in 1969 , and remained there until early retirement in 1996 . He began as a scholar of European history , but in the early 1970s , shifted interest to the history of U.S . popular culture , a then-new field for scholarly inquiry . He became a pioneer academic authority on the history of U.S . broadcasting , writing : - Dont Touch That Dial! : Radio programming in American life , 1920-1960 . Chicago : Nelson-Hall , 1979 . According to WorldCat , the book is held in 1262 libraries - Blacks and White TV : Afro-Americans in television since 1948 . Nelson-Hall , 1983 ; held in 854 libraries - Television and the Red Menace : the video road to Vietnam . Praeger , 1985 ; held in 766 libraries - Who Shot the Sheriff? : the rise and fall of the television western . Praeger , 1987 . held in 460 libraries - One Nation under Television : the rise and decline of network TV . Pantheon , 1990 . held in 911 libraries He also edited a volume of radio dramas from the notable African-American Chicago writer , Richard Durham , published as Richard Durhams Destination Freedom . According to WorldCat , the book is held in 415 libraries He was also : the first curator ( 1985-1990 ) of the Museum of Broadcast Communications , President of the Popular Culture Association ( 1980-1982 ) , producer and host of his own documentary radio series , Journeys at WBEZ , the Chicago outlet of National Public Radio , ( 1980-1981 ) , originator and General Editor of the Media and Society series of scholarly books ( 1987-1990 ) published by Praeger Publishers . Archival work . He and his wife began in 1972 at their own expense a private archive of vintage pop music , long-forgotten radio programs , and a wide-range of historical 16mm motion pictures that ranged from travel shorts , old silent educational films , and home movies , to corporate sales shorts , filmed and kinescoped TV programs , commercials , and long-forgotten entertainment shorts . By the end of the 20th century , the Library of Congress termed the MacDonald repository the most important archive in private hands in the United States . As a result of this interest , he founded J . Fred MacDonald & Associates in 1986 as a private commercial enterprise . The enterprise continued until the end of 2010 , when the Library of Congress took physical possession the resources and shipped it to its Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper , Virginia . Blending his interest in historic film and a dedication to education , in 2010 MacDonald created the American Indian Film Gallery , a free website promoting the study of Native American peoples living from the Arctic to the tip of South America . This on-line resource contains 450 vintage films about Indian life between the 1920s and 1970s . After a national search for an appropriate new home , in 2012 he donated the entire website to the University of Arizona which now owns and operates the AIFG . Other work . MacDonald is the author of 2 novels : The headlong fury : A novel of World War One . ( according to WorldCat , only two copies of the book are held in libraries ) and I , Liberal : A Political Fantasy ( which is not listed in WorldCat ) . He also composed two enhanced e-books : in 2009 The History Shoppe , and the following year its sequel , The Code of Clio . These were placed on-line as free e-books . Their purpose was to introduce high school and college students to the methodology of historians who draw their understanding of history from the examination of original source materials . External links . - http://www.jfredmacdonald.com