Reminiscences of William T. Couch [electronic resource] : oral history, 1972

Biographical Note

Publisher

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education, rural Virginia; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Press, Associate Director, 1926-1932 and Director, 1932-1945; freedom of the press in the South; problems of tenant farmers and the Farm Security Administration; Southern Policy Committee; Southern Conference for Human Welfare; Federal Writers Project, Regional Director, 1937-1939; THESE ARE OUR LIVES; University of Chicago Press, Director, 1945-1950; COLLIER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA, editor-in-chief, 1952-1959; OXFORD JUNIOR ENCYCLOPEDIA, editor, 1959-1963; William Volker Foundation; impressions of the Nashville Agrarians, Henry G. Alsberg, Clarence Carson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Frank P. Graham, Robert M. Hutchins, Herman C. Nixon, Howard W. Odum, and others

Subjects

• Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988--Interviews.
• Farm tenancy--United States.
• Federal Writers' Project.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Singal, Daniel Joseph, 1944- interviewer.
• Southern States--Intellectual life.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• University of North Carolina Press.
• University presses.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1982