Martin Pine Oral History

Collection

Identifier: QMP-0021

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

In this interview, Pine looks back on his career and the changes he saw at Queens College through the decades. Some highlights include the student and faculty protests over the Vietnam War, the development of the college’s physical campus, the increasingly diverse student body, and the revolutionary effects of technology in education.

Dates

1960-2013

Creator

Pine, Martin (Interviewee, Person)

Access

This oral history is open for research. Media files and transcript can be viewed and/or requested through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/150/collection_resources/28840/file/96365. For help using the site, contact QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Interview shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share or adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as they meet the terms of the license. See license details at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Biographical / Historical

Dr. Martin Pine was Professor of History at Queens College for more than 40 years before retiring in 2004; he then continued to teach as an adjunct until shortly before his death in 2014. During his time at Queens he taught in the SEEK and ACE programs; was director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies; and served on the history department’s Personnel & Budget Committee for many years. His specialty was medieval and Renaissance intellectual history.

Extent

1 Digital Files ; Duration: 01:11:28

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Dr. Martin Pine and Michael Kelly in April, 2013.

Processing Information

Oral history conducted as part of the Queens Memory Project (http://queensmemory.org), a collaborative program of the Queens Public Library and Queens College to collect stories, images, and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens.

This interview was conducted as part of the Queens College Spring 2013 History 392W Oral History Seminar taught by Prof. Bobby Wintermute, for the college's 75th Anniversary Oral History Project.