Reminiscences of Richard Brandon Morris, 1978.

Biographical Note

Historian

Scope and Contents

New York, N.Y. childhood; education, City College, Columbia; Regional Director, Survey of Federal Archives, 1936-37; committee work with American historical associations, 1930s- ; A TREASURY OF GREAT REPORTING, THE SPIRIT OF '76, GOVERNMENT AND LABOR IN EARLY AMERICA, FAIR TRIAL, other writings; legal history; teaching at City College, 1927-49, Columbia 1946-61, visiting professorships; editing John Jay papers; world travels delivering lectures, researching books, promoting scholarly cooperation for American Revolution Bicentennial commemoration; impressions of Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, other historians

Subjects

• Editors--Interviews.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Historiography.
• History--Study and teaching.
• Interviews.
• Law--History.
• Morris, Berenice, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Morris, Richard B. (Richard Brandon), 1904-1989--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.