HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Paul S. Boyer, 76, Dies; Historian Studied A-Bomb and Witches Source: NYT, 4-2-12 Enlarge This Image Prof. Paul S. Boyer Paul Boyer, an intellectual historian who wrote groundbreaking studies of the Salem witch trials, the history of apocalyptic movements and the response of the [...]
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History Buzz April 4, 2012: Paul S. Boyer: History Doyen & Professor Studied Atomic Bomb & Salem Witch Trials dies at 76
Posted by bonniekaryn on April 2, 2012
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/history-buzz-april-4-2012-paul-s-boyer-history-professor-studied-atomic-bomb-salem-witch-trials-dies/
History Doyens: This Week…. Eric Foner
Edited By Bonnie K. Goodman Ms. Goodman is the Editor / Features Editor at HNN. She has a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University. What They’re Famous For Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on October 19, 2010
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/history-doyens-eric-foner/
History Doyens: Paul S. Boyer
What They’re Famous For Paul Boyer, a U.S. cultural and intellectual historian (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966) is Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus and former director (1993-2001) of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held visiting professorships at UCLA, Northwestern University, and William & Mary; has received [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on September 3, 2007
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/history-doyens-paul-samue-boyer/
History Doyens: Kenneth M. Stampp
What They’re Famous For Kenneth Milton Stampp is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1946-1983. He is an award-winning historian of slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction, and is considered the leading scholar in his area. Stampp was born [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on November 26, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/11/26/history-doyens-kenneth-stampp/
History Doyens: Linda Gordon
What They’re Famous For Linda Gordon has specialized in examining the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Her first book was a documentary history of working women in the US (America’s Working Women, orig. 1976, revised ed. 1995). She then turned her attention to the history [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on November 12, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/history-doyens-linda-gordon/
History Doyens: Anne Firor Scott
What They’re Famous For Anne Firor Scott, a pioneer historian of American women, is W. K. Boyd Professor Emerita of History at Duke University. Scott joined Duke’s history department in 1961 on a visiting appointment. Nineteen years later she was named William K. Boyd Professor of History and appointed chair of the department. Professot Scott [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on October 6, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/history-doyens-anne-firor-scott/
History Doyens: Stephan Thernstrom
What They’re Famous For Stephan Thernstrom is the Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard University where he teaches American social history, and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He was born in Port Huron, Michigan and educated in the public schools of Port Huron and Battle Creek. He graduated with highest honors from Northwestern University [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on September 17, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/09/17/history-doyens-stephan-thernstrom/
History Doyens: Joyce Oldham Appleby
What They’re Famous For Joyce Oldham Appleby is professor emerita from UCLA and retired in 2001 after teaching there 21 years. She is one of the United States’ foremost historians of the early republic. Appleby is at the pinnacle of her profession through her powerful engagement with important ideas and controversial issues. Throughout her 40-year [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on August 13, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/08/13/history-doyens-joyce-oldham-appleby/
History Doyens: Harold M. Hyman
What They’re Famous For Harold M. Hyman is William P. Hobby Professor of History, Emeritus, and director of the Center for the History of Leadership Institutions at Rice University, and is best known for his work on the legal and constitutional climates of the mid- to late-nineteenth-century United States. He is author of several books [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 30, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/07/30/history-doyens-harold-hyman/
History Doyens: Walter T.K. Nugent
What They’re Famous For Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent is Emeritus professor of history since 2000 and was the Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 1984. Before that he was Professor of History at Indiana University for twenty-one years. As a visiting professor he has [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 16, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/history-doyens-walter-nugent/
History Doyens: Winthrop D. Jordan
Winthrop D. Jordan passed away on February 23, 2007. Click here for his obituary. This HNN Doyen profile was published in the summer of 2006. What They’re Famous For Winthrop D. Jordan is the William F. Winter Professor of History F.A.P. Barnard Distinguished Professor Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Mississippi. He received [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on July 2, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/07/02/history-doyens-winthrop-jordan/
History Doyens: David Brion Davis
What They’re Famous For David Brion Davis is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale university and taught there from 1970 to 2001. He is currently Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, which he founded in 1998 and directed until 2004. Davis received his PhD [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 28, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/05/28/history-doyens-david-brion-davis/
History Doyens: Alonzo L. Hamby
What They’re Famous For Alonzo L. Hamby is the Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University. He is author of the award-winning biography, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman, Hamby has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants. They include the Herbert Hoover Book Award and the Harry S. Truman [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on May 14, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/history-doyens-alonzo-hamby/
History Doyens: Bernard A. Weisberger
What They’re Famous For Bernard A. Weisberger is a distinguished teacher and author of American history. Weisberger formerly was a professor at Wayne State University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester where he was full professor and chair of the department. He has written more than a dozen books and worked on [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on April 30, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/04/30/history-doyens-bernard-weisberger/
History Doyens: Edmund S. Morgan
What They’re Famous For Edmund Morgan is the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Morgan has authored dozens of books on Puritan and early colonial history, which are acclaimed for both their scholarly focus and their appeal to a general audience. Michael Kammen in the Washington Post Book World described Morgan as “one of the [...]
Posted by bonniekaryn on April 16, 2006
http://historymusings.wordpress.com/2006/04/16/history-doyens-edmund-morgan/
