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In the interview, Charles S. Hyneman discusses the evolution of the political science discipline in the twentieth century, curriculum development, and Indiana state politics. Also discussed are Hyneman's careers in the academic field and the United States War Department, and his tenure as president of the American Political Science Association.
| Interviewee: | Hyneman, Charles: Carter, Byrum |
| Call number: | 78-051 |
| Date(s) of Interview: | October 12,1976; November 2,1976; November 30,1976; March 4,1977; February 17,1978; October 24,1978; December 5,1978 |
| Physical Description: | 103 pp.; 1 reel, 1 7/8 ips, 75 minutes; no index |
| Physical Location: | Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office. |
| Access Status: | Open |
| Interviewer: | Ostrom, Elinor |
Charles Hyneman attended Indiana University as an undergraduate and returned to Bloomington in 1956 as a political science professor. He speaks extensively about the faculty, curriculum, and students at Indiana University and at the other institutions where he taught, including Louisiana State University, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois. Hyneman took a break from teaching during World War II to do work in Washington D.C. with the FCC and the Civil Affairs Training Schools. He also talks about his involvement with various organizations, like the American Political Science Association.
American Association of University Professors
American Political Science Association
Ballantine Hall
Centre College
Civil Affairs Training Schools
Department of Sociology
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Communications Commission
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
Indiana University
Indiana University Department of Political
Science
Louisiana State University
Northwestern University
Phi Psi
United States War Department
University of Illinois
Yale University
Carter, Byrum
Carter, James Earl, Jr.
Derge, Dave
Kendall, Willmoore
Kirkpatrick, Evron
Laswell, Harold
Long, Russell
Ranney, Austin
Riggs, Fred
Tager, Esther
Young, Roland
Assam, India
Washington, DC
FCC assistant chairman
author
political science dean
political science professor
political scientist
African-Americans teachers
American Political Science
Review
Annamite studies
Black colleges
GIs
Great Depression
McCarthyism
New Deal
United States government
World War II
curriculum
faculty social life
job placement
political science
public policy
social scientists
state legislature