obituaries

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/6/19
  

  John Lukacs, iconoclastic scholar of history, dies at 95

  John Lukacs, a Hungarian-born historian and iconoclast who brooded over the future of Western civilization, wrote a best-selling tribute to Winston Churchill and produced a substantial and often despairing body of writings on the politics and culture of Europe and the United States.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  David Brion Davis, Prizewinning Historian of Slavery, Dies at 92

  Professor Davis wrote or edited 16 books, but paramount were the three that examined the moral challenges and contradictions of slavery and their centrality in American and Atlantic history.

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• SOURCE: Colorado College
  3/26/19
  

  Professor Emeritus of History Bill Hochman Passes Away

  His life not only touched those who are associated with Colorado College, but his presence in the world had been one that was remarkable and inspirational. 

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• SOURCE: Reclaim
  3/21/19
  

  An Economist with a Heart

  by Hedrick Smith

  Alan Krueger, the Princeton professor and economic adviser to two presidents who died last weekend, was one of those rare economists who break out of the ivory tower and plunge restlessly into the real world

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• SOURCE: UVAToday
  3/22/19
  

  In Memoriam: Joe Miller, Ground-Breaking Historian

  “Joe was instrumental in establishing non-Western fields in the department and in fostering the study of African history internationally."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/7/19
  

  Virginia Walcott Beauchamp, pioneer of women’s studies, dies at 98

  In her research and teaching, she pored over the records left by women who received little if any public attention during their lives but whose diaries, letters and other writings vividly revealed the eras in which they lived.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/1/19
  

  Li Xueqin, Key Historian in China’s Embrace of Antiquity, Dies at 85

  For more than 20 years Mr. Li was deputy director and then director of the Institute of History, part of the Chinese Academy of Social Science — positions of unusual influence.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/26/19
  

  Ira Gitler, jazz historian and critic who chronicled the rise of bebop, dies at 90

  In addition to writing two books on jazz history, Mr. Gitler helped critic Leonard Feather compile the comprehensive “The Encyclopedia of Jazz,” first published in 1960. 

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• SOURCE: Duke Today
  2/6/19
  

  Women's History Pioneer Anne Firor Scott Has Died at 97

  Across three decades of scholarship, Scott helped usher in the field of women's history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/31/19
  

  Leonard Dinnerstein, 84, Dies; Scholar of Anti-Semitism in U.S.

  He had spent most of his academic career at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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• SOURCE: Princeton
  1/24/19
  

  Historian Theodore Rabb, champion of the humanities, dies at 81

  Theodore Rabb, professor of history, emeritus, founder of Princeton’s “Humanities Sequence” and an innovative teacher of generations of students, died Jan. 7 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. He was 81.

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• SOURCE: Tennessee Tribune
  1/17/19
  

  Dr. Mildred Denby Green, Trailblazing Historian of Black Music in Memphis Dies

  One of Memphis foremost historians of Black music, she taught at two of the city’s historically Black colleges for forty years.  

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• SOURCE: Stanford News
  1/15/19
  

  Stanford Professor Emeritus Harold Kahn, who specialized in Chinese history, dead at 88

  Harold L. Kahn, a professor emeritus who helped create a generation of leading U.S. scholars in Chinese and Japanese history, died on Dec. 11.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/12/19
  

  John Salter Jr., demonstrator in 1963 Mississippi lunch-counter sit-in and professor, dies at 84

  Mr. Salter — as he was known throughout his career as an activist and academic — died Jan. 7 at his home in Pocatello, Idaho, at age 84.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/13/19
  

  Leo Ribuffo's Obituary Appears in the Washington Post

  “Irascible, brilliant and deeply learned, Ribuffo argued that America’s anti-liberal traditions were far more deeply rooted in the past, and far angrier than most historians would acknowledge."

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  6/6/18
  

  Ira Berlin, transformative historian of slavery in America, dies at 77

  Dr. Berlin, along with historians such as David Brion Davis and Eugene D. Genovese, “really put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  3-26-14
  

  A Fond Farewell to Jonathan Schell

  by Jim Sleeper

  Schell represented a WASP cultural sensibility and poured it into the beginnings of a transracial, global civil society.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-19-14
  

  Randolph Thrower, I.R.S. Chief Who Resisted Nixon, Dies at 100

  Mr. Thrower’s unusual legal background helped garner wide support from lawyers’ groups and lawmakers when Nixon nominated him for I.R.S. commissioner.

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• SOURCE: KUAC
  3-11-14
  

  Prolific Alaskan Historian, Author, UAF Professor Claus-M. Naske Passes at Age 78

  Naske wrote or co-authored a dozen books about Alaskan history.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  3-4-14
  

  Justin Kaplan, Bartlett’s editor, dead at 88

  Kaplan, a longtime professor at Harvard University, was also the author of several acclaimed literary biographies.