Reminiscences of Henry F. Graff : oral history [electronic resource], 1972.

Biographical Note

Historian.

Scope and Contents

First meeting with Richard Hofstadter as a graduate student at Columbia University; impressions of Hofstadter; campus atmosphere in early 1940s; Hofstadter: influence of Marxism, reaction to McCarthyism, family life, interest in European history, political opinions, relation to colleagues, involvement in civil rights movement, international reputation, commencement speech in 1968

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Graff, Henry F. (Henry Franklin), 1921---Interviews.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970.
• Interviews.
• Keylor, William R., 1944- interviewer.
• Oral histories.