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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main reason for the University's inability to fulfill its plans is inexcusable. Arturo Morales-Carrion, perhaps the most prolific Puerto Rican historian of his time, was the professor the University wanted all along. But Morales-Carrion had been sick for the past few years and died this summer. Without Morales-Carrion, Gen Ed 154 could no longer exist, the University said...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Puerto Rico: Swept Under the Rug | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...find it hard to believe that the late Morales-Carrion was the only qualified professor in this world to teach about Puerto Rico. Morales-Carrion was certainly not the first prominent Puerto Rican historian, and he is certainly not the last...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Puerto Rico: Swept Under the Rug | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...think my generation came to cherish the freedom of inquiry," says Iriye, who at 54 is beginning his first year as a tenured Harvard history professor. "I think one task of a historian, and particularly a historian teaching undergraduates, is to instill in the minds of [students] that one should never believe uncritically what is given by people in authority...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Re-evaluating History | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Last spring. Akira Iriye, an international historian from the University of Chicago whose subspecialties include American history, received a lifetime post from the department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars Trickling into History | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

...last spring the department voted to tenure a historian of African history--one of the two final candidates for the lifetime post was Associate Professor of History H. Leroy Vail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scholars Trickling into History | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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