Word: historians
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...tenure offers come several months after University of Chicago diplomatic historian Akira Iriye accepted a lifetime post at the University. Before the Iriye appointment, the department had not added a senior Americanist to its ranks since...
Should both scholars join the Harvard faculty, "it will certainly add new blood," said Columbia University American historian Eric Foner, who two years ago turned down a Harvard tenure offer. "It will prove that the Harvard History Department is able to bring in good people in American history...
Faust's husband Charles Rosenberg, a pre-eminent historian of science who teaches at Penn, also has received a tenure offer from Harvard. Faust said yesterday that she and Rosenberg were "very seriously considering" their offers and planned to visit Cambridge next month before reaching a final decision this fall...
...Pact threat, NATO may gradually dissolve. Likewise, the denuclearization of Europe could become nearly total. Appealing as this may sound, it could endanger the armed balance that has kept the peace since 1945. The cold war was also a cold peace: now in its 45th year, the era that historian John Lewis Gaddis calls the "long peace" is surpassing the stable stretches imposed by Metternich and then Bismarck in the 19th century. One reason is that nuclear weapons made localized wars and territorial disputes too dangerous to allow. They also made a direct confrontation between East and West...
BOOKS: A Russian historian updates the evils of Stalin...