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...fundamentally, university presidents must display a sense of probity, scholarship and passion for academics that are rare in politics, experts say. They must be removed from the concerns...
...When books like this are taken, the break in the collection has a far-reaching impact on scholarship," Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline told The Boston Globe. "Its effect is worldwide...
...Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition recently awarded it's annual Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book on slavery written this year to The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas written by Queens University of Ontario Professor David Eltis. The book was chosen for its ground-breaking scholarship showing that it was the strength and prosperity of the African nation-states, rather any weakness or poverty, that shaped the Atlantic slave trade and forced the Europeans to accommodate themselves to African customs and economics. The book also seeks to understand why Europe, the champion of individual freedom, helped...
TIME: In your preface you say that it's important for a historian to "put distance between scholarship and the values of the society in which he or she functions." Was it easy for you to write with scholarly detachment about such a subject so heavy with ongoing emotional and political weight...
...would MIT have banished the fraternity itself from campus. Nor would MIT have established a scholarship in Scott's memory; nor invested in the construction of on-campus housing, required for first-years beginning...