Charles Leonard Lundin was a professor of history at Indiana University. He was born in 1907 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, and was raised in New England. He describes the provincialism of Bloomington in the late nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties, Herman B Wells' presidency at Indiana University, the impact of World War II on Indiana University, race relations, history faculty, the Indiana University Auditorium, and student protests during the Vietnam War. Lundin died in Bloomington in 1998.