May, Henry F(arnham)

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MAY, Henry F(arnham)

MAY, Henry F(arnham). American, b. 1915. Genres: History. Career: Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley, since 1980 (Associate Professor, 1952-56; Professor of History, 1956-63; Chairman of Dept., 1964-66). Instructor in History, Lawrence College (now Lawrence University), Appleton, Wisconsin, 1941-42; Assistant Professor, 1947-48, and Associate Professor, 1948-49, Scripps College, Claremont, California; Visiting Associate Professor, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, 1950-51; Ful- bright Lecturer, Belgian univs., 1959-60; Pitt Professor of American History Instns., Cambridge University, 1971-72. Publications: Protestant Churches and Industrial America, 1949, 1967; The End of American Innocence: A Study of the First Years of Our Own Time 1912-1917, 1959; (with Charles G. Sellers, Jr.) A Synopsis of American History, 1963, 1969; (ed.) Oldtown Folks, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1966; The Enlightenment in America, 1976; Ideas, Faiths, and Feelings, 1983; Coming to Terms, 1988; The Divided Heart, 1991; Three Faces of Berkeley, 1993. Address: 612 Coventry Road, Kensington, CA 94707, U.S.A.