Berkeley in the 1960’s: A Historian’s Point of View

Henry F. May

Professor of History, U.C. Berkeley

Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture

November 24, 1970 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus

About Henry F. May

Historian Henry F. May, an authority in the field of American intellectual history, is Margaret Byrne Professor of History at Berkeley. May is one of the few Berkeley faculty members to attempt historical overviews of recent campus events. In 1965, in The American Scholar, he published an article titled “The Student Movement: Some Impressions at Berkeley.” Last year in the same publication, he offered “Living with Crisis: A View from Berkeley.” Earlier this year, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of Berkeley (1937) and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947.