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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...
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...
...according to Professor of History William E. Gienapp, authorized biographers are very rarely prohibited from making private papers available to other researchers after work has been completed. "It is not a nonexistent problem, but I don't think it is a constant occurence," said Gienapp...
...There are two ways of doing political history," Donald explained. "First, there is the method of focusing on men or ideas, and what they said or did. Second, there is the method of quantified history, which involves closely analyzing voting returns and examining issues received by the electorate. Gienapp bridges these two in a synthesis that is the shape of a new political history. It is very promising...
...work on the origins of the Republican Party, Gienapp says, he incorporated these two methodssthods. "I moved back and forth from analyzing both the people and the leaders, and argued that both were essential to an understanding of the Republican Party...