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.

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.

Old Lions Department: Cultural Historian Robert Darnton at 78

by Erik Moshe

How this newspaperman became a historian.

Old Lions Department: Historian Vaughn Bornet, at 100 Years Old

by Erik Moshe

He’s still writing.

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.”