Merle Curti retirement symposium, 1968.

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Merle Curti retirement symposium, 1968.

Tape-recorded and transcribed symposium, April 23-24, 1968, held at the University of Wisconsin and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin on the occasion of the retirement of historian Dr. Merle Curti. Included are speeches by Lawrence A. Cremin, Columbia University; Howard Mumford Jones, Harvard University; and John Higham, University of Michigan.

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University of Wisconsin

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The University of Wisconsin-Extension promotes continuing education and lifelong learning by providing statewide access to university resources and research to the people of Wisconsin. Its four divisions are continuing education; cooperative extension; entrepreneurship and economic development; and broadcast and media innovations. From the guide to the University of Wisconsin Extension Program Reports, 1960-1969, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Cremin, Lawrence A. (Lawrence Arthur), 1925-1990

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Lawrence Arthur Cremin : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481290 From the description of Reminiscences of Lawrence Arthur Cremin : oral history, 1983. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565215 ...

Higham, John

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Biographical Note: John Higham is an author and professor emeritus of history, The Johns Hopkins University. He was born in Jamaica, N.Y. in 1920 and received the B.A. from Hopkins in 1941. Higham received the Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin in 1949 and taught at Rutgers, Columbia, U.C.L.A., and the University of Michigan before his appointment to the faculty of Hopkins in 1971. In 1975, he was named to the John Martin Vincent Chair in History, a position he held ...

Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996

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Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980

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Jones was a Professor of English at Harvard, having joined the department in 1936; he retired in 1962 as Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities. He was known as the "historian of American culture." From the description of Correspondence with Robert E. L. Strider, 1949-1980 (inclusive), 1962-1979 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064254 Writer and educator at Harvard University. From the description of Howard Mumford Jones Papers, 1915...