02526cpcaa2200493 a 4500 mm2004085104 DLC 20260227111730.0 040211i||||||||||| eng n mm2004085104 DLC DLC DLC dacs R lcmd Griffiths, Gordon, 1914- Venturing outside the ivory tower : the political autobiography of a college professor : typescript, circa 1999. 2 items. 1 container. 0.2 linear feet. Open to research. Memoir relating chiefly to Griffiths' membership and activities in the communist party while a student and historian at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of Oxford in England. Discusses loyalty oaths and his participation, along with Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, Haakon Chevalier, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, in the faculty communist group at Berkeley. Other individuals represented include Kenneth May, John and Richard Dyer-Bennet, and Griffiths' wife Mary. Outlines his work during World War II with the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare and the Foreign Economic Administration and his career as a historian of modern Europe. Second partial copy includes an additional chapter. Historian. Collection material in English. Brodeur, Arthur Gilchrist, 1888- Chevalier, Haakon, 1902-1985. Dyer-Bennet, John, 1915-2002. Dyer-Bennet, Richard. Griffiths, Mary, 1916- May, Kenneth O. (Kenneth Ownsworth), 1915- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. United States. Board of Economic Warfare. United States. Foreign Economic Administration. Communist Party of Great Britain. Communist Party of the United States of America. University of California, Berkeley. University of Oxford. University of Washington. Communism Great Britain. Communism United States. Loyalty oaths. World War, 1939-1945 Economic aspects. Europe Historiography. Historians. itoamc 44687 44687