Word: historyes
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A quick background check on a few of the key speakers proves this. The keynote address, for example, is to be delivered by Benjamin Beit Hallahmi of Haifa University. His area of expertise is not political science or history, but psychology. Hallahmi has authored a misstatement-filled book on Israel...
Goldin, whose latest book Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women will be released in January, said she plans to visit the University later this month to meet department members and discuss a possible contract with Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence.
"She's an outstanding economic historian and a first-rate applied economist," said Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson, who teaches the department's only course on American economic history. He said Goldin's new book on gender economics "looks like it might be a classic."
Krenz's first foreign trip began after night demonstrations in nine cities. About 500,000 East Germans took to the streets to demand democratic reforms in the largest protests in East Germany's 40-year history; about 300,000 people marched through Leipzig.
Washington Post editor Benjamin C. Bradlee '43-'44, New York Times Washington correspondent R.W. Apple and Higginson Professor of History emeritus John King Fairbank gathered to honor journalist Theodore H. White '38 and inaugurate an annual lecture in his honor.