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Professor of American intellectual history, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1980 : oral history transcript / 1999.
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Professor of American intellectual history, University of California, Berkeley, 1952-1980 : oral history transcript / 1999University of California history series: Department of History at Berkeley
Creator/Contributor:
May, Henry F. (Henry Farnham), 1915-2012, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lage, Ann, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bailey, David T.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
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.
Date:
1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCollege teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Historians -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- California -- Berkeley
Student movements -- California -- Berkeley
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 -- Contestation -- Californie -- Berkeley
Mouvements étudiants -- Californie -- Berkeley
College teachers
Historians
Protest movements
Student movements
California -- Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of History.
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of History
Note:
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,
Forms part of: University history series, Department of History at Berkeley.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3081 C:1-14.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (xii, 218 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
14 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.