Robert Potash oral history with Jessica Adamites

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Title:
Robert Potash oral history with Jessica Adamites
Description:
Latin American historian, native of Boston and graduate of Harvard; arrived at UMass Amherst in 1950. Memories of campus and teaching in 1950s. Father's experiences at Massachusetts Agricultural College (then MIT) in 1912. Rope pull. History department in Old Chapel; influence of the Chapel on visiting Argentine minister (1901). Meeting John F. Kennedy; Kennedy in Amherst (1954). History Department move to Bartlett and Herter Hall. Potash's dissertation and research; hiring ABDs. University support for research in 1950s and 1960s; library purchases of books.
Interviewee:
Potash, Robert A., 1921-
Interviewer:
Adamites, Jessica
Date:
March 28, 2013
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Genre:
Oral histories (document genres)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
UMass Amherst Oral History Collection
UMass Amherst Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection
Series:
Academics
Subjects:
University of Massachusetts Amherst--History
University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty
Old Chapel (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of History
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Extent:
01:25:03
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murg1_207_2013-i012
Terms of Use:
Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Amherst (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
murg1_207_2013-i012