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...there with the Iowa State Fair and the state high school basketball tournament, the caucuses have become a defining event for Iowans - and a task they've embraced. "We have a job to do and people are watching," says Tom Morain, a state historian. "But once the circus moves on, I don't think we expect anyone to continue to pay attention to us. We'll want to think that we acted responsibly, that we took the measure of the candidates and did a respectable...
...soon as he saw the trove of letters that had been discovered in a Dumpster near his home, historian Allan Berube knew he would write a book. The missives, written by gay GIs who had met at an Army base in Missouri and stayed in touch throughout World War II, told vivid stories of love, friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject...
...return in its slide into a new authoritarianism, the shape and nature of which cannot yet be fully defined. I'm sure that the period of Putin's rule - which I predict will be long - will once again put the country in the situation described by the great Russian historian Vasili Klyuchevsky almost a century ago: "The state was swelling up, the people were withering...
...department estimates that about 40 percent of undergraduate concentrators follow a medical track in their studies, making the departure of medical historian Brandt particularly worrisome...
...Colleagues point to his joint appointment as a historian of science at both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School as good preparation...