Upper Midwest Women's History Center Oral History Project: Interview with Susan Hill Gross

Titles: Upper Midwest Women's History Center Oral History Project: Interview with Susan Hill Gross (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Susan Hill Gross was born in Minneapolis in 1934. Ms. Gross helped develop and was co-director, along with Marjorie Wall Bingham, of the Women in World Area Studies Project and then became the Director of the Upper Midwest Women's History Center for Teachers, which evolved into the Upper Midwest Women's History Center from 1980-1999. She was also a social studies teacher at Savannah High School, St. Louis Park High School and Robbinsdale-Cooper High School. She received her M.A. in history in 1967. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Susan Hill Gross was involved in the UMWHC from its inception as a curriculum project through all its various moves and permutations until its closing. During the time that she worked in the history center, she was involved in quite a number of projects. She talked about the work of the WWAS, the development of the Center, the work of the Center, its move to Hamline University, the relationship to the Women Historians of the Midwest, the closing of the Center and its legacy.

Dates

• 01/22/2001 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Gross, Susan Hill
• interviewer: Sommer, Barbara W.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 84
• Accession Number: AV2001.146.8

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Upper Midwest Women's History Center Oral History Project' <OH 84>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 46 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 03:01:58 running time

Subjects

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