Word: warren
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Characteristic of the Warren Center's general approach, the volume concluded with seven brief "essay reviews" of books that, according to co-editors Bailyn and Fleming, "either in themselves change the perspective on significant issues in American history or that provide the occasion for a general re-assessment of such issues...
...been 14 years since The Harvard Guide to American History, first assembled in 1896, was revised by Handlin, Arthur Schlesinger, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frederick Merk, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Paul H. Buck. In what was the kitchen of the house the Warren Center now lives in, Richard K. Showman, formerly in charge of educational exhibits at Sturbridge Village, is working full-time to bring the bibliography up to date, under the general supervision of Frank Freidel...
...Warren Center plans a similar revision every five years, to prevent a repetition of this massive task. Tentative plans also call for a paperback supplement every year...
Upstairs in the quieter wing of the Center--away from the noise and typewriters of the administration and publications staff--are studies for the 11 post-doctoral fellows and four foreign scholars. It is here that the serious scholarship--the Warren Center's really unique contribution to the field--is carried...
...Center's program for awarding fellowships to foreign scholars "might, after a period of years, prove to be the most important thing we've done," notes Fleming. By supporting the studies of "young scholars" who will return to teach in their own countries, the Warren Center hopes to raise the low level of international interest in American history. An Indian and a Swede received appointments for last year's trial run of the program; this term four foreign scholars (from Japan, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland) are at the Center...