Carolyn Eisenberg oral history interview

Professor of History and Foreign Policy at Hofstra University. This oral history interview documents Dr. Eisenberg’s experience growing up in suburban New York during the rise of Civil Rights and antiwar movements. She describes experiencing censorship in high school during the McCarthyism era and protesting segregation as an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago. Further, she reflects on her experiences partaking in the 1968 Hamilton Hall Occupation at Columbia University while in pursuit of a Ph.D. She discusses her time teaching at Dartmouth from 1971-1975 and 1988-1990, including her participation in civil disobedience against the draft. Finally, she recalls her experience teaching part-time at the Center for Worker Education while tenured at Hofstra University and conducting research in Vietnam for her recent book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia.