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In Honor of Bernard A. Weisberger: 2nd Lt. in World War II

by Robert J. Hanyok

What did Bernard Weisberger do in World War II? 

In Honor of Bernard A. Weisberger: “To Sir With Love…”

by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

"I have known Bernie Weisberger for fifty years. Throughout that time, he has been an intellectual mentor, an avuncular adviser, a splendid correspondent, and a dear and honest friend."

In Honor of Bernard A. Weisberger: "People Are Crazy and Do Damn Fool Things"

by Rick Shenkman

Through his long years he has had one observation that, alas, seems truer than ever.

In Honor of Bernard A. Weisberger: The Bernie Principle

by Leonard Steinhorn

"There’s a morality tale to the American story that Bernie tells, one of the powerless confronting power and innocence coping with guile. "

In Honor of Bernard A. Weisberger: Bernie and Me

by Walter Nugent

A friendship that's lasted 55 years.

Andrew Feffer: Review of Stanley Corkin's Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s (Oxford 2011)

Andrew Feffer: Review of Stanley Corkin, Starring New York: Filming the Grime and Glamour of the Long 1970s (Oxford University Press, 2011)  Andrew Feffer teaches American cultural and intellectual history at Union College in Schenectady, New York where he co-chairs the Film Studies program. He presently is writing a history of anti-communism and liberal political culture in New York City at the end of the Great Depression 

Comments About Historians Archives 10-3-03 to 12-4-03

Comments in some cases have been edited. Click here for the archives. Steven L. Kaplan: He Knows More About the History of French Bread than Anyone Ever Has So Who Is David Brooks? Should Columbia University Tell Who Funded the Edward Said Chair in Middle East Studies?

NEW KID ON THE BLOCK 11-06-03I am pleased to join Liberty and Power.  As I told David when I was invited, there are several writers on this list whose work I've admired for some time.  It's awfully flattering to be invited to join such an august group.  I hope I can hold up my end of the bargain. I author the majority of my blogging work at SCSU Scholars.  SCSU is

Comments About Historians: Archives 6-19-03 to 9-30-03

Richard Pipes: The Reluctant Power Scholar Edward Said's Legacy: A Negative View How Gerhard Weinberg Discovered Hitler's Second Book Professor of Art History Honored by Smithsonian for book About Banned Homosexual Images Wilbur H. Siebert: A Memorial Marker to Commemorate His Research on the

Comments About Historians: Archives January to June 2003

Click here to return to the latest entries in Comments About Historians. Eric Hobsbawm: No Apologies Eric Hobsbawm: Lying to the Credulous Eric Hobsbawm's Romance with Communism Thomas Reeves: Howard Zinn Is Not Courageous Stephen Howart