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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 processing of the interviews, are part of our Collection. Aside from their detail on the life of Lowenstein, the interviews will also t... 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 processing of the interviews, are part of our Collection. Aside from their detail on the life of Lowenstein, the interviews will also touch upon almost every liberal or radical movement of the post-World War II period. The interviews in this project are open with a few exceptions. Show more Show less

Founding members discuss the formation of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1930 and describe its relations with the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics.

This series of interviews was conducted by Joan Simpson Burns to provide material for a study of patterns in American cultural life, published in her book The Awkward Embrace: The Creative Artist & the Institution in America. Mrs. Burns' interest centered on her subjects' family backgrounds and early exposure to the arts as well as on their later contributions to American culture.