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...paths open to me—one toward life as an academic historian, another toward life as a journalist. I chose the latter, in the belief that a fine journalist does indeed bring so many of the same skills to the service of his public as an historian??chronicling events as they happen, using all the various sources open to journalist and historian alike to bring the truth to his or her readers...
...Lilian Handlin—a friend of 30 years and fellow historian??wrote in an e-mail that Fleming's intellectual curiosity ran deep. As a scholar of history of science, he read "voluminously" on both sides of the field...
...science historian??s work, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America,” has already received the Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious award in historical writing...
...work as heavy as “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.” In her first book published since taking the University’s helm, Drew G. Faust returns to the Civil War, whose women and slaveholders have previously drawn her historian??s eye. This time, she tackles death, or, as she calls it, the Good Death. More precisely, it’s the soldier’s attempt to maintain dignity when confronted with the war’s greatest indignity, anonymous death. Even when writing about the unknown...
...Faust’s background as a “systematic and very sophisticated historian?? should prove useful in her tenure as president, says Sidney Verba ‘53, the former University librarian who spoke at Faust’s installation...