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...happy it happened when I was chair of the department.”“We’ve doubled our active duty roster from one to two,” Gordon added, referring to the number of Pulitzer winners now in his department. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th anniversary University professor, whose “Midwife’s Tale” won a Pulitzer in 1991, expressed a similar sentiment.“This is a wonderful day for the Harvard History Department and for two terrific colleagues,” Ulrich wrote in an e-mail...
...Party, himself a military reservist. But for Europeans who have soured on mass immigration, stabilizing Congo may be preferable to having to cope with thousands trying to escape the fighting. "If we do not succeed, this would result in more waves of refugees [into] Europe and Germany," government spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said last week. The Bundestag is expected to approve the troops measure in May. Europe's parliamentary debates feel a world away from Dubie, where the battle is focused on daily survival rather than on the country's political future. "People want roads reconstructed and land to dig," says...
That last class is taught by 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. And she was sufficiently angered by Tierney’s column that she wrote a lengthy response, which landed errantly in The Crimson’s editorial page...
Amidst complaining how “Tierney seems to long for the day when American history courses line up in the catalog in neatly marked packages,” Ulrich also related an anecdote about students visiting from Beijing University. They had a solid command of hard facts, but did not have a sturdy understanding of how those historical events came to pass. “The Chinese students,” Prof. Ulrich avers, “wanted to know how ordinary people got their ideas about liberty...
...Prof. Ulrich, let me tell you something about my peers: we are in no danger of becoming fact-spewing automatons able only to dish out the who, when, and where of historical occurrences. We are rarely incapable of forming an opinion, even absent those aforementioned facts. Attend a random undergraduate section, and you’ll see what I mean...