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Reminiscences of Guy Stanton Ford, 1955

Creator: Ford, Guy Stanton, 1873-1962
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :transcript: 963 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Historian; university president

Scope and Contents

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

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972

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