Richard Hofstadter project : oral history, 1972.

Scope and Contents

This project brings together the recollections of students, faculty colleagues, and others who knew Richard Hofstadter, for the most part during his years at Columbia (1946-1970), where he became DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History. Contributors recall him as a teacher, social observer, writer, and friend, tracing the intellectual development of a major scholar. Specifics include comment on SOCIAL DARWINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT, THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION, THE AGE OF REFORM, ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN AMERICAN LIFE, and other works as well as insights into the mind and character of the man Participants and pagination of transcripts: Daniel Bell, 42; Elisabeth Earley, 24; Eric Foner, 21; Frank Freidel, 22; Henry F. Graff, 35; H. Stuart Hughes, 23; Alfred Kazin, 28; Walter Metzger, 29; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,14

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Columbia University.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Historiography--United States.
• History--Research.
• History--Study and teaching.
• Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)