Word: gienapp
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...requirement imposed on Institute of Politics fellows is to lead a discussion group on a topic of our choice. Beyond that, we have the run of the University, including an open invitation to audit courses. I have settled on Samuel Huntington's course on "American National Identity" and William Gienapp's "Coming of the Civil War," and I am offering a study group on western regional politics. To me, this all fits together in a pattern which makes perfectly good sense, but I know the pattern is far less apparent to most of the people around...
...smart money here is on courses taught by people like Michael Sandel or William Gienapp--acknowledged baseball fans who will feel your pain...
...Gienapp said he is sorry that both scholars will be leaving Harvard next year, but he said he is not worried about the state of the American history program at Harvard...
Lisabeth Cohen, whom Gienapp wrote is "one of the top 20th century historians in the country--the absolute best of her cohort," will join the Harvard faculty in the fall. She will "fill some of the gap left by [McGreevy and Fitzpatrick's departures...
According to Gienapp, the history department will also add another two scholars to its Faculty in the fall, Kristin Hoaganson, who teaches late 19th and early 20th century American history, and Lisa McGirr, who has been a lecturer at Harvard teaching 20th century American history...