Word: gienapp
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...thought he was best person [from the pool of candidates]," Gienapp said. "We are excited at the possibility that he might join...
Yanowski, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, was chosen from a pool of 360 scholars who responded to the department's nationwide search to fill two junior positions in United States history, said Professor of History William E. Gienapp, chair of the department's search committee...
Then came William Henry Harrison in the election of 1840. Harvard Professor of History William Gienapp (that's William E. Gienapp) told me he really doesn't know why Harrison chose to use three names, except that it was considered aristocratic--and Harrison was certainly an aristocrat. His dad signed the Declaration of Independence, and Harrison grew up on swanky Berkeley Plantation on the James...
...Gienapp says he may have done it, then, because William Harrison was sort of wimpy-sounding. All the presidents before him (except maybe Van Buren) had been famous for something--like starting the United States (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe), starting the first political machine (Van Buren's Albany Regency) or being an Adams (Adams, Adams...
Although the arrival of new scholars will strongly bolster a troubled department, Donald's departure leaves the History Department with only one 19th century Americanist--William E. Gienapp...