obituaries

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/13/19
  

  Jean Edward Smith, Biographer of the Underrated, Dies at 86

  His books helped restore the reputations of Grant and Eisenhower and return John Marshall to the forefront of the American story.

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• 9/3/19
  

  Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice

  by Pamela Metzger and Andrew Davies

  The Norman Lefstein legacy: passionate, tireless efforts for indigent defense reform.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/19/19
  

  Myrna Katz Frommer, 80, Dies; Oral Historian of Catskills and Brooklyn

  She collaborated with her husband, Harvey, on “It Happened in the Catskills” and other histories told in the voices of the people who were there.

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• SOURCE: UVA Today
  7/22/19
  

  Reginald Butler, Former African American Studies Director at UVA, Dies

  He came to UVA in 1991, and became the second director of the Woodson Institute, especially supporting the study of local African American history using early digital technology.

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• SOURCE: Duke Today
  7/22/19
  

  Duke Professor Emeritus John Herd Thompson Dies at 72

  While at Duke, he served as chair of the history department and as director of the Canadian Studies program. He was known for his love of Canada, baseball and jazz, and for his devotion to his students.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/11/19
  

  Colin Palmer, Historian of the African Diaspora, Is Dead at 75

  Colin A. Palmer, a historian who broadened the understanding of the African diaspora, showing that the American slave trade was only one part of a phenomenon that spanned centuries and influenced cultures worldwide, died on June 20 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 75.

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• SOURCE: Time
  7/9/19
  

  How Ross Perot Changed Political Campaigns

  Ross Perot, the self-made Texas billionaire and one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates in U.S. history, died on Tuesday. He was 89.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/7/19
  

  Louie Howland, editor and award-winning maritime historian, dies at 81

  Mr. Howland was 81 when he died at home on June 21 of lung cancer, and though he sold textbooks early on, he later charted a memorable path as an editor and antiquarian bookseller in Boston’s literary world.

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• 7/7/19
  

  Charles Reich and The Greening of America – an Appreciation

  by James Thornton Harris

  Charles Reich, author of The Greening of America, passed away last month at the age of 91.Reich’s book, a combination of history, sociology and philosophy struck a chord in a somber time of war and national protest.

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• 6/23/19
  

  The Perfect Mentor: Alan Brinkley

  by Yanek Mieczkowski

  Beyond his impeccable scholarship and insightful lectures, Alan Brinkley was a mentor to dozens of doctoral students. In that role, he was perfect, providing profound lessons that will last through many careers, and likely, many lifetimes. 

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• SOURCE: UVA Today
  6/18/19
  

  Historian and Civil Rights Activist Paul Gaston Dies at 91

  Renowned Southern historian Paul Gaston, who grew to appreciate wine, “was wonderful and wonderfully complicated,” said UVA associate professor of history John Edwin Mason.

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• SOURCE: H-Net
  5/20/19
  

  Remembering Prof. Sadao Asada

  by Peter Mauch

  Sadao Asada, Professor Emeritus of Doshisha University, died in Kyoto on February 4, 2019. He was 83 years old.

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• 6/2/19
  

  Remembering Murray Polner (1928-2019)

  by Ralph Seliger

  “Murray played a big role at HNN and was instrumental in our success."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/28/19
  

  Tony Horwitz, ‘Confederates in the Attic’ Author, Dead at 60

  Tony Horwitz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historical nonfiction writer best known for the bestselling chronicle of Civil War re-enactors Confederates in the Attic, has died at age 60.

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• SOURCE: AP
  5/27/19
  

  Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78

  Morris was a polished prose stylist whose career took off with the success of his first book, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. But what cemented his legacy was “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.”

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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."