Old Lions Department 
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5/27/18
Old Lions Department: An Interview with the Africanist Joseph C. Miller at 78
by Erik Moshe
How did Miller ever become an Africanist in the first place? By mistake, he says.
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6/10/18
Old Lions Department: Architectural Historian Albert Schmidt at 92
by Erik Moshe
His daily schedule? He gets up early, and starts working at 5:30-6:00 AM on his research papers.
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2/11/18
Old Lions Department: Cultural Historian Robert Darnton at 78
by Erik Moshe
How this newspaperman became a historian.
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11-12-17
Old Lions Department: Historian Vaughn Bornet, at 100 Years Old
by Erik Moshe
He’s still writing.
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11-17-17
Old Lions Department: Historian Bernard Weisberger at Age 95
by Erik Moshe
What’s he doing now? Writing a memoir, teaching himself Spanish, and vowing to read (at long last) Henry Adams’s “History of the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison.”
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