Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > McGraw-Hill : oral history, 1953-1973Scope and ContentsThe development of McGraw-Hill, Inc. and its part in educational, industrial, and technical development in the US and abroad are traced in a series of interviews begining with the lives of James H. McGraw (1860-1948) and John A. Hill (1858-1912). Associates recall the career of each as a publisher of trade and technical magazines. Others deal with the merger of the book publishing activities of the two companies as the McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1909, and the purchase of the Hill interest in trade magazines by McGraw to form the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company in 1916. Interviews continue the story of the company's expansion through the acquisition of the F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1961, which brought the firm into the field of information services, the purchase of such periodicals as HOUSE & HOME and MODERN PACKAGING, and the acquisition of the Webster Publishing Co.
Editors of McGraw-Hill trade, educational, and business publications discuss editorial and circulation policy, standards of responsibility in dealing with readers and advertisers, and new functions and fields for the company's publications and instructional materials
Special phases include: changes in the writing and publishing of college textbooks for courses in vocational education; elementary and high school materials, visual education aids, programmed books, and text films; Whittlesey House and trade book publishing, paperback books, technical writing, training manuals for the US armed forces, and international editions of textbooks. Interviewees give background on such McGraw publications as the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD ART, and SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY as well as more recent corporate developements. The project is brought up to date periodically
The collection's narrators are: Paul Abbott, Joseph H. Allen, Russell Anderson, Fred Anzley Annett, Edward C. Aswell, M. N. Baker, Walter Bara, Robert Fleming Beard, William Kelly Beard, Curtis G. Benjamin, James Edward Blackburn, C. Presby Bliss,Robert Forrester Boger, Nelson L. Bond, Edward E. Booher, Waldo G. Bowman, Harold Veatch Bozell, Mason Britton, Emerson Lee Brown, Herbert Buhrow, John P. Burke, William Buxman, John Callahan, Lillian Charlton, Willard Townshend Chevalier, Maud Clark, Carl Coash, Fred H. Colvin, Robert Craig, John Crossman, Walter Crowder, Daniel F. Crowley, Basil Gray Dandison, Frank Dickman, Joseph Dionne, Frank Egner, John Emery, Frederick M. Feiker, Burnham Finney, Edwin Shelton Fisher, Helene Frey, Woodrow Wilson Garey, William C. Gartner, James L. Gilbert, Elizabeth Gile, Lawrence Keith Goodrich, Thomas Grogan, Virgil V. Guthrie, Hugh Handsfield, Brenton Harries, Albert Hauptli, Keith Henny, S.T. Henry and Willard Townshend Chevalier, Robert Bergmann Hotz, Dexter Merriam Keezer, Hugh Joseph Kelly, Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, Alton Walker Kitchens, Alvin Knoerr, Edgar Kobak, Alice E. Kraft, Kenneth Kramer, Henry Gardner Lord, Jerome Luntz, George M. MacMurray, Howard Mateer, Mrs. Donald C. McGraw and Mrs. George Tenney, Donald Cushing McGraw, Harold Whittlesey McGraw, James A. McGraw, John L. McGraw, Alice McMullen, Edward J. Mehren, Paul Montgomery, Arch Morris, L. C. Morrow, Malcolm Muir, Matthew J. Murphy, Carl Nagel, Bela Z. Reiter, Margaret Richards, A. J. Rosenberg, Richard Rowden, Louis Napoleon Rowley, George Sears, H. W. Shaw, Willard T. Shoener, Robert E. Slaughter, Ralph Bevin Smith, John C. Spurr, Alfred M. Staehle, Fred Stahl, Philip William Swain, John Whitfield Taylor, George Clinton Tenney and Willard T. Chevalier, James S. Thompson, Wallace Francis Traendly, Joseph Van Denburg, William Vannah, Angelo R. Venezian, Harry W. Waddell, Norman Walt, Theodore Weber, William J. Weidig, John E. Welle, John W. Wight, John Remsen Wilhelm, Lawrence Wray, and Norman Osborne Wynkoop
Part I was done during 1953 and 1954; Part II during 1955 and 1956. Part III was done in 1964 and Part IV in 1973
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