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[Oral History Program interview with Merle Eugene Curti, 1986. ]
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Background to writing "The University of Wisconsin, 1848-1925"--How history was written--Starting University Archives--Cooperation with departments; problems with sources--Highlights of history--Re...
Background to writing "The University of Wisconsin, 1848-1925"--How history was written--Starting University Archives--Cooperation with departments; problems with sources--Highlights of history--Relations with legislature; important presidents and faculty; Van Hise presidency; curriculum and research--Women and the University--Origins of Wisconsin Idea; tradition of faculty governance and academic freedom--Ely trial and sifting and winnowing statement--Libel suit against the book.
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- audiocassettes (2 hrs.) : 1 transcript (121 pages) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, monophonic
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- ocn228025268, ocn227186253
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- Interviewed in 1986 by Barry James Teicher
- Interview conducted with both Merle Eugene Curti and Vernon Carstensen.
- Curti Professor of History, at UW: 1942-68.
- Carstensen Professor of History, at UW: 1945-64.
- See also separate interviews; Merle Eugene Curti, No. 27 and Vernon Carstensen, No. 230.
- Curti's undergraduate work at Harvard under Frederick Jackson Turner--Turner's approach to history--His teaching techniques--Structure of Harvard's graduate program in the 1920s--The dissertation defense--Curti's dissertation under Turner--Rejection of the dissertation by Schlesinger--His second dissertation--Critics of the frontier thesis--Turner's lecture style--Curti's essay on Turner--The assessment of Turner as an historian