Harvey Goldberg [SEP] educated at
undergraduate lives, the march of the common man over that of common stocks."
Fellow history professor at Madison, Maurice Meisner, befriended Goldberg and helped to found the Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison after his passing.
Although he published comparatively little, Goldberg engaged in continual, massive research from French archives for use in his courses. His lectures were highly condensed narratives based on meticulously detailed research. In a sense, Goldberg was a storyteller whose scholarship was poured
, recorded his lectures before a packed house in Agricultural Hall. Some of these “bootleg” recordings are part of a CD collection released jointly by UW–Madison’s Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History and the community-based Harvey Goldberg Memorial Fund. A master list of all the Harvey Goldberg tapes at the University of Wisconsin Archives tapes is available from the Goldberg Center.
External links.
- The Harvey Goldberg Center for the Study of Contemporary History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with photos