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L: I knew something of that.
P: I have a copy of that and it was his doctoral dissertation at
Michigan. He worked with Ulrich Phillips, and of course there
was no more important southern historian at the time. But
after he arrived in Gainesville, whether it was because of an
overloaded teaching program or what, he never did anything
more in the way of research and writing.
L: I sort of had the impression that he wasn't doing any research,
and that he just enjoyed being a professor.
P: That was also true of Ancil Payne, and to a degree of Dr.
Leake. Dr. Leake did not publish.
L: No.
P: Of course, the emphasis wasn't on publishing then.
L: It was on teaching.
P: They were overburdened at a school like Gainesville with classes
and preparation and grading tests. You didn't have test graders
in those day.
L: And no encouragement to publish.
P: No. So, it is true that Dr. Leake and Payne and Glunt did not
publish at all during that period, which is unfortunate, because
they had the ability to do work had they wanted to be research
scholars. It had to wait for a new group to come, like C.
Vann Woodward and Rembert Patrick and pepple like that who
began to come into the university just before World War II.
L: Yes. I think probably Manning had done more in that respect through
the social sciences than anyone else, by making it possible for
them to have a place where they could publish, in the Southern
Political Science Quarterly, for example. It was a place for the
publication of regional articles and it was very rare that the
American Political ScienceSReview would take an article from a
southerner.
P: And then Manning organized the Journal of Politics.
L: That's what I'm thinking about, Journal of Politics. And after
that a number of publications came into being.
P: Bill was already beginning to publish in the 30s.