Alice M. Hoffman is an American labor and oral historian.

Career

Alice M. Hoffman was an associate professor of labor history at

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, where she founded the Labor Archives and Oral History Project. After retiring, she taught oral history methodology at Bryn Mawr College. She was the principal consultant for the Bicentennial Labor History Exhibit for the Philadelphia Council of the AFL-CIO.Biographical Note, Alice M. Hoffman Papers, 1920-1998, Penn State University Libraries, http://www.libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1881.htm (accessed 21 February 2015). She was Assistant to the Deputy Secretary for Labor and Industry for the State of Pennsylvania. From 1974 to 1976, Hoffman served as vice-president and president of the Oral History Association. She is president emeritus of the

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. Hoffman received the Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region's 1985 Forrest Pogue Award for excellence in oral history. ''Archives of Memory: A Soldier Recalls World War II'' (1990) was co-authored with Hoffman's husband, a psychologist, war veteran, and interview subject. The book provided a "powerful model" for the utility of interviews and memorial evidence in historical investigations.Glenace E. Edwall, Review of ''Archives of Memory'', ''The Public Historian'' Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter 1993), 77, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3378035 (accessed 21 February 2015). The Hoffmans also co-edited ''The Cruikshank Chronicles: Anecdotes, Stories, and Memoirs of a New Deal Liberal'', with a foreword by

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and Rosalynn Carter.Howard S. Hoffman obituary, Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Bulletin, November 2006, http://www.brynmawr.edu/alumnae/bulletin/nv06/obituaries-BrynMawrAlumnaeBulletinNovember2006.shtml (accessed 21 February 2015).

Personal life

Hoffman is the daughter of labor activist

Nelson Cruikshank Nelson Hale Cruikshank (June 21, 1902 – June 19, 1986) was known nationally in the United States as an expert on Social Security, Medicare and policy on aging. He was a Methodist minister, labor union activist and the first director of the Depart ...

and his wife Florence Crane. She married experimental psychologist

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, with whom she raised six children.

References

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