Transcription of Merle Curti Sound Clip

Interview Information

Interview #333: Merle E. Curti and Vernon Carstensen
Merle E. Curti (1897-1996)
Professor of History
At UW: 1942-68

Interviewed: 1986
Length: 2 hours
Interviewer: Barry Teicher

Transcription

Tape 1/Side 1, 055- :

Having myself written a book on the social ideas of American educators, I had got interested in the history of higher education, and I felt that most of the histories of colleges and universities had been written without any context. They had been institutional histories, and I decided sometime I would like to try my hand at writing the history of a university and to put it in terms of context. So when I got to Wisconsin in 1942, I began to hear about the Centennial, which was coming up in 1948. And it occurred to me that I might suggest to them the writing of a centennial history of the University, and this met with a good response.

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