Historian of slavery, the Civil War, and reconstruction, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1983
By: 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,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; Sproat, John G.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: University of Wisconsin--Madison. Dept. of History.; University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Dept. of History.; University of Maryland, College Park. History Dept.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of History.; World War, 1939-1945.; Loyalty oaths -- California -- Berkeley.; Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.); Slavery -- United States.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Other titles: University history series. Department of History at Berkeley.
Description: 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.