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Definitions & Background

• Historians on the Hot Seat
• What Is Plagiarism?
• AHA: Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct
• OAH: Professional Integrity
• OAH Resolution on Honesty and Integrity
• When Did Plagiarism Become a Crime? Katie Brynn
• Famous Plagiarists
• Plagiarism: You Know It When You See It (Really?) Keith R. St. Onge
• Books about the scandals involving historians accused of plagiarism

Individuals Accused of Plagiarism

• How the Goodwin Story Developed

• Doris Kearns Goodwin Should Resign as a Harvard Overseer Harvard Crimson Editorial

• Three New Books (Doris Kearns Goodwin) Philip Nobile

• Alex Haley's Advice to Ambrose and Goodwin Philip Nobile

• Strain at a Gnat, but Swallow a Camel: With Ambrose and Goodwin in Mind Keith Miller

• How Doris Kearns Goodwin Came to Resemble Lyndon Johnson Rick Perlstein

• The Los Angeles Time's Secret List on Doris Kearns Goodwin Philip Nobile

• How the Ambrose Story Developed

• In Defense of Stephen Ambrose Richard Jensen

• Poll: Is Stephen Ambrose a Serial Plagiarist?

• HNN's complete coverage of the VanDeMark case

• The Official Reprimand of Brian VanDeMark (U.S. Naval Academy).

• Ann Lane's Dissertation Nathan Williams

• Historical Fraud and the Seduction of Ideas: The Poulshock Case Jerome Sternstein

• The Case of Louis Roberts John Monfasani

• Was Philip Foner Guilty of Plagiarism?

• Should Jayme Sokolow Still Be Published? John Sucharski

• I Stood Accused of Plagiarism Stephen Oates

• Did Alan Dershowitz Borrow Shamelessly from a Discredited History Book? Norman G. Finkelstein

• Another Case of Plagiarism--This Time by a Journalist (Glenn Mitchell) Rick Shenkman

• James MacKay Robert V. Bruce

• Matthew Whittaker

What Should Be Done About Plagiarism

• HNN Poll: Should the American Historical Association Stop Investigating Scholars Who Commit Fraud and Plagiarism?

• 2002: Year of the Scandal

• The Year When We Got Caught Ralph Luker

• Should Students Be Allowed to Get Away with Plagiarism? Matthew Warshauer

• Reporter's Notebook: Impressions of the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, 2003

• How Academics Responded to My Book About Plagiarism Thomas Mallon