Professor of Japanese history, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1977
By: Delmer M. Brown ; with an introduction by Irwin Scheiner ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1995. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of Calfornia, Berkeley,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; Scheiner, Irwin.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: University of California (1868-1952). Dept. of History.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of History.; University of California, Berkeley. East Asia Studies.; University of California, Berkeley. Center for Japanese Studies.; College teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.; Historians -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.; Japanese -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.; Shinto.; Religions -- Relations.; Christianity and other religions.; Japan -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series. Department of History at Berkeley.
Description: Family and boyhood in Kansas and southern California; teaching in Japan, 1932-1938: observations of Japanese culture, religion, and militarism; graduate studies in history, Stanford and Harvard; World War II service as naval intelligence officer, Pearl Harbor, 1940-1945; professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1946-1970s: departmental leadership, key faculty appointments, effects of the loyalty oath, student unrest in the 1960s, changes in curriculum, chairing the department, 1957-1961 and 1972-1975; East Asian studies at Berkeley: the East Asiatic Library and the Center for Japanese Studies; Academic Senate chairman, 1971-1972, and service on the budget committee; publications on Japanese history and culture, working with Japanese scholars; reflections on teaching, foreign language studies, Education Abroad Program, graduate students; family, religion, and retirement.

includes oral history "American society during World War II," talk to Outlook club "The Arab Nest," and talk to Outlook Club "Fundamentalism".