Interview with Ronald Story (b.1940), Professor of History at UMass Amherst; graduate student at University of Wisconsin and SUNY Stony Brook (PhD, 1972). Nadir of difficulty for landing an academic job in the early 1970s, especially in history; political issues in Massachusetts environment and impact on the department and university; changes in department from the early 1970s on; work in university governance and administration, faculty senate, etc.; hard work as president of the campus faculty union; becoming part of a University system rather than stand-alone campus; Five Colleges relations; UMass Press.
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