Skip to main content
Libraries

Browse Items (250 total)

  • Collection: McKiernan Interviews

About this Collection

Interview with Elizabeth Holtzman

Elizabeth Holtzman is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives. She is a Democrat and was the first woman to hold office as the New York City Comptroller and the District Attorney of Kings County, New York. Holtzman graduated from Radcliffe College of Ha...

Interview with Ellis Cose

Ellis Cose, a native of Chicago, is a columnist and editor for Newsweek. He is the author of a dozen of books including the best-selling The Rage of a Privileged Class. He became a columnist at the age of 19 and he became a contributor for the Times Magazine. Cose appeared...

Interview with Emory Douglas

Emory Douglas worked as a Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party. He was also the art director, designer, and main illustrator for The Black Panther magazine. His illustrations for the Party's newspaper reflect American history and society in the 1960s and 1970s.

Interview with Ernest Green

Ernest Green is a consultant, investment executive, and Civil Rights Leader. Green was one of the first black students to integrate at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, following the Supreme Court 1954 ruling to desegregate. Green graduated with a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Sociology from Michigan State University.

Interview with Eugene McCarthy

Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), a native of Watkins, Minnesota was a politician, poet, academic, presidential candidate and critic of the Vietnam War. McCarthy served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. After leaving the Sena...

Interview with Frank Schaeffer

Frank Schaeffer is an author at the New York Times who wrote the book Keeping Faith with his son. The book speaks about their father and son relationship during his service in the U.S Marine Corps. He is now a film director in Hollywood and he still continues to write books about life in evangelical households.

Interview with Fred Grandy

Fred Grandy is an actor and politician. Grandy is well known for his role as "Gopher" on the sitcom The Love Boat. He was elected congressman for Iowa’s Sixth District from 1987 to1995. In 1997, he became president and CEO of Goodwill Industries. He served as a speechwriter for various sh...

Interview with Fred Wilcox

Fred A. Wilcox is an author of six books, peace activist, and retired associate professor in the Writing department at Ithaca College. He earned his Master's degree from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in English and Expository Writing from SUNY Albany.

Interview with Frye Gaillard

Frye Gaillard is a historian, educator, and author. He has been the writer-in-residence in the English and History departments at the University of South Alabama since 2007. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions...

Interview with Gary Kulik

Gary Kulik is a decorated veteran of the War in Vietnam. Along with being an author, he also served as a deputy director of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and was the department head and assistant director of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and the editor of American Quarterly.

Output Formats

atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2