Professor of American intellectual history, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1980
By: Henry F. May ; with an introduction by David T. Bailey ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Lage, Ann.; Bailey, David T.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1999
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of History.; College teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.; Historians -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.; Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- California -- Berkeley.; Student movements -- California -- Berkeley.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series. Department of History at Berkeley.
Description: Family, youth, and public school education in Berkeley; undergraduate years at University of California, social life and radical politics on campus, 1933-1937; graduate study in American history at Harvard University, 1937-1941: friendships, mentors, marriage, attitudes toward communism and the war in Europe; teaching at Lawrence College; World War II service in the Pacific as a Japanese language officer; professor at Scripps College, 1947-1952, Salzburg Seminar; professor of history at Berkeley, 1952-1980: social life of Berkeley faculty and community, faculty hiring and promotions; observations and role during the 1960s student protest at Berkeley: the Free Speech Movement, 1964, anti-war protests of 1960s-1970s, Third World strike, People's Park, impact on university teaching and society; research, writing, and teaching on American intellectual life, study of religion, family history; reflections on the craft of history.