Oral history interview with Ray Allen Billington, circa 1968-1969
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- Name
- Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981 (Interviewee)
- Garraty, John A. (John Arthur), 1920-2007 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Ray Allen Billington, circa 1968-1969
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Ray Allen Billington : oral history, [196
- Abstract
- Western expansion to 1860; self-betterment in successive westward movements, adventure, escape society.
- Collection Name
- American historians project
- Subjects
- Authors; Historians; Historiography--United States; United States Politics and government 1815-1861; Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- circa 1968-1969
- Note (Biographical)
- Historian, author.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by John A. Garraty circa 1968-1969
- Note (Provenance)
- John Arthur Garraty, Gift 1968
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7093015
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-c7na-6m86
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.