Reminiscences of Guy Stanton Ford : oral history, 1955.

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Reminiscences of Guy Stanton Ford : oral history, 1955.

Early life and education; University of Wisconsin, 1892-1895 and 1898-1899; teaching at Wisconsin Rapids, 1895-1898; European travel, 1899-1905; Columbia University, 1900-01; Yale University; illness, 1906; University of Illinois, 1906-1913; Dean, University of Minnesota, 1913; sabbatical at Harvard, 1916; Committee on Public Information, 1917-1918; AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW; Social Science Research Council; mission for Rockefeller Foundation, 1924; return to Minnesota; Commission for the Investigation of Social Studies in the Schools; Acting President, University of Minnesota, 1931-1932; Stanford University, 1933; Commission of Inquiry on National Policy in International Economic Relations, 1934; achievements at the University of Minnesota as Dean of the Graduate School, 1913-1938, Acting President, 1937-1938, President, 1938-1941; Executive Secretary, American Historical Association; World War II.

Transcript: 963 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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