Winton Solberg · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Winton Solberg
Date(s): 5/15/2018
Interviewee(s): Winton Solberg See all items with this value
Interviewer(s): Alicia Hopkins See all items with this value
Interviewer Position: Archives Staff
Summary: Winton Solberg, professor emeritus in the Department of History, wrote numerous articles and published multiple books on the University of Illinois's history. Born in 1922, Solberg grew up during the Great Depression and served in World War II, and after the war decided to pursue a PhD in history. He came to the University of Illinois in 1961, when university president David Dodds Henry approached Solberg to write a volume on the university's history. He taught American Intellectual and Cultural History as well as an occasional survey course until his retirement from teaching in 1992. In the spring of 2018, he had two manuscripts pending publication in addition to the recently released <i>Creating the Big Ten: Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization</i>.
Subject(s): department of history See all items with this value; faculty See all items with this value; university of illinois history See all items with this value; voices now See all items with this value
Related Resources: Record Series 35/3/98, Voices of Illinois Oral History Project