Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public's response to the current combinations of crises, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman says: "This kind of malaise atrophies the will of the people. They tend to turn in among themselves and say, 'I'll take care of my family's concerns.'" In many ways Americans are drawing inward and becoming more conservative in their career goals, their finances and their politics. Some examples...
...Historian David Donald once wrote a delightful essay called "Getting Right with Lincoln." It told, among other things, how Presidents in trouble over the last hundred years discovered a remarkable kinship to our greatest President...
...with for the last three and a half years: keeping Guinier and the rest of the Faculty happy, all at the same time. Guinier is not looking forward to leaving the chairmanship of Afro, and sources say that he has been trying to get his close friend and associate, historian Hollis Lynch, appointed instead of Blassingame...
Luckily, a few English-speaking commentators treat social change with understanding--David Kunzle, a British art historian who spoke and showed slides of Chilean art at Carpenter Center last week, was the most recent one in these parts--and it's possible to get from them at least a less distorted picture of some of the aspects of the Chilean revolution with which American newspapers never dealt...
...name "John August," scribbling in panic before the "manias, depression and blue funks" as well as the living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary department store" came as close as he could to respectability as a historian. In 1948 he won a Pulitzer Prize for Across the Wide Missouri, a chronicle of fur trappers in the 1830s. Five years later, a National Book Award came for The Course of Empire, which starts with a provocative quote from Columbus to Queen Isabella and ends with the Lewis and Clarke...