Word: historian
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...umpteenth time since the end of World War II, Europe was set abuzz last week by the claimed discovery of a living child of Adolf Hitler. While most such previous assertions have been quickly discredited, the source of the latest report was Werner Maser, 55, a respected West German historian and Hitler biographer (Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality). Maser, who plans to include the full story of his discovery in a new edition of his book later this year, has so far declined to provide full documentation for his claim. But he gave TIME some fascinating details about...
...Most societies have revolutions - or claim to," observes Historian S. Frederick Starr. "What made the Russian Revolution so important was that it made more extensive claims for itself than others had. It was the first to claim significance .aching into every corner of the globe, and that's where its mythology came from." How well does that mythology square with reality? Many different measures must be applied to judge the successes and failures of the immense, visionary and often brutal venture...
...more information than anybody else." Most scholars insist that the Constitution's strength lies in the "majestic generalities" that permit its adaptability to changing times. "In the context of 1868, the framers were reaching out very far to require equal treatment by states as to race," says Historian Harold Hyman of Rice University. "They left definitions vague, and that's good constitution drafting: leaving details to posterity." Adds Leonard Levy of Claremont Colleges: "We can't be governed by the dead hand of the past...
Wolff, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, recently published her biography of Edith Wharton, and Lane, a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, has written a study of Mary Beard, the American historian...