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oral histories (literary works)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works that record interviews conducted to preserve the recollections of persons whose experience or memories are representative or are of special historical or social significance.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bette Weidman Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0010
Scope and Contents

In this interview, Dr. Bette Weidman discusses the start and development of her career as an English professor at Queens College. She also muses about how her interest in Queens College oral histories began, and the appeal of the genre as “a community of scholars conversing.”

Dates: 2019-10-10

Bette Weidman Oral History Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0018
Abstract

This collection contains physical and digital items related to several oral history projects and courses conducted by Dr. Bette Weidman, professor of English at Queens College, between 1980 and 2012.

Dates: 1980-2014

Mary Reuder Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0005
Scope and Contents In the first of these two interviews, Dr. Mary Reuder discusses various aspects of her academic career: the importance of being active in one’s academic community as well as outside it, the difficulty of getting academic jobs especially at a time when discrimination against women was common, her view that there is no conflict between religious belief and science as well as the anti-Catholic prejudice she experienced as a young academic in the 1960s.In the second interview, she...
Dates: 1986-02-26, 1987-11-17