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Abraham A. Ribicoff Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: www.columbia.edu
In 1990 through the support of the Abe Wouk Foundation we began a series of interviews for a lengthy life history memoir with Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut. Senator Ribicoff began his career as a judge in Connecticut and then served as congressman and governor of that state. A close friend and confida...
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: www.columbia.edu
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Abraham D. Beame Administration Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
A series of 38 interviews with the colleagues, family, friends, and political supporters of Mayor Abraham D. Beame, donated to the Office by Dr. Ruth B. Cowan. The interviews were conducted in 1979 in preparation of a book which was never published. One interview, that with Mayor Beame (403 p.), has been transcrib...
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
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Addicts Who Survived Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
Most of the interviews were conducted with long term heroin addicts, many of them enrolled in methadone programs. This collection also includes interviews with medical doctors, social workers and law enforcement officials concerned with heroin addiction.
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
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Adlai E. Stevenson Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
Friends and associates describe Governor Adlai Stevenson's life and career from a number of vantage points. Personal reminiscences and anecdotes recall his wit and contribute fresh material for a study of his personality. Political associates analyze and illuminate his career, particularly as Governor of Illinois...
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
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Air Force Academy Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
In 1968 the faculty of the U.S. Air Force Academy initiated a series of oral history interviews with significant figures in military aviation. The major topics discussed include strategy and tactics in World War I, World War II, and Korea, the establishment of the Air Force Academy, and inter-service relationships...
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
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Alaskan Pioneers Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
This project gathers the reminiscences of pioneer settlers in Alaska, providing accounts of gold prospecting, mining, cattle driving, homesteading, and travel by trail and river. Included are descriptions of the social life of the pioneers as well as accounts of the depression of 1893 and the Klondike strike.
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: library.columbia.edu
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Alexandra Kollontai Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
This series of interviews on the life and career of Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was undertaken by Sonya Baevsky as part of a larger project on the Russian revolutionary and diplomat, involving also a documentary film. Some of the taped interviews are with persons who knew Mme. Kollontai
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
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All the Hairs on My Head Hurt
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written by Dressler LaMarr Howell, fl. 1964 (New York: Exposition Press, 1964), 197 page(s)
written by Dressler LaMarr Howell, fl. 1964 (New York: Exposition Press, 1964), 197 page(s)
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Allan Nevins Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
Associates of Allan Nevins during his long career at Columbia (1928-58) and later at the Huntington Library recall the man and the historian. Many of the interviews, contributed by Mort Lewis, a California Friend, deal largely with Nevins' last years. Included in the collection is a filmed (transferred to video) i...
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.library.columbia.edu
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Allard K. Lowenstein Project
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(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.cul.columbia.edu
The interviews were conducted by Professor William Chafe of Duke University for a biography of Congressman Lowenstein. Professor Chafe, one of the leading historians of recent American history, has conducted more than eighty interviews for this work. The Allard K. Lowenstein Fund underwritten the transcribing and...
(New York: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office),
Source: oralhistoryportal.cul.columbia.edu
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