Word: historian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Historian Pyotr Yakir, 49, was charged with passing information to the West about dissent in the U.S.S.R. Yakir, who had spent 17 years in Stalin's forced-labor camps, admitted his guilt both on the stand and later at an extraordinary public news conference, thereby escaping a prison sentence. Before his trial, however, Yakir had told a British reporter: "If they beat me, I will say anything. I know that from my former experience in the camps...
...Future Historian Anon...
...wish that Jackson had been here," he said quietly as he listened to Historian Shelby Foote talk of "that terrible, terrible day" at Gettysburg. "Ewell would have done better if Jackson had been here. Lee should have listened to the Georgians that day." The Georgian Longstreet had strongly urged Lee not to fight the Battle of Gettysburg...
...have never gone out of print, but his message has often been muted or ignored. Until now. In America he is a part of the curriculum on almost every campus; even in France, where he was almost pathologically rejected by Sartre's followers, he is being rehabilitated. Says Historian Christian Jambet, 29, whose analysis of revolution, L'Ange, has become a modern classic...
...Historian and author, Tuchman won Pulitzers for The Guns of August and Stilwell and the American Experience in China...