obituaries 
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6/3/2022
Paul Ginsbourg: London-Born, Florence-Based Historian of Modern Europe
Energized by student protests at Cambridge in 1968, Ginsbourg was drawn to study the European revolutions of 1848 and rise of the modern Italian nation.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
3/28/2022
Madeleine Albright Had Warned the World about Putin
Madeleine Albright's path to being Secretary of State began with her experiences fleeing Prague twice – to escape both Nazism and Stalinism.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
2/28/2022
Richard Dunn, Eminent Historian of Early America and Caribbean, Dies at 93
Dunn, among other achievements, founded what is now the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/27/2021
Jonathan Spence, Noted China Scholar, Dies at 85
Spence taught for four decades at Yale, and published a number of popular and critically acclaimed books on the vast history of modern China.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/4/2022
Lisa Brodyaga, Crusading Lawyer for Immigrants’ Rights, Dies at 81
“I like to be underestimated,” she once told law students at the University of Miami. “I like to have people think, ‘She’s just a hick lawyer.’” She added: “Go ahead, I dare you. Dismiss me.”
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SOURCE: Jacobin
12/21/2021
Tyler Stovall Was a Groundbreaking Historian of Modern France, Colonialism, Race and Empire
by Michael G. Vann
"Tyler Stovall should be remembered as a scholar who firmly believed that the writing and teaching of history was a political act. Throughout his vibrant career, he used pathbreaking research, critical analysis, and engaging lectures as weapons in the fight for social justice."
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SOURCE: Ebony
12/19/2021
Julius S. Scott, Noted Scholar and Professor of Caribbean History, Passes Away at 66
Scott's unpublished disseration on Black internationalism in the Caribbean became legendary; Harvard University’s Vincent Brown described it as “an underground mix-tape” that influenced many other scholars in a field that was not yet established in the academic mainstream.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/8/2021
Julius S. Scott, Author of "The Common Wind" Dies at 66
“As a young African-American, I noticed other Black athletes from Africa, the Caribbean and South America, and I thought about their relationship to Afro-North Americans, and what were some of the important vehicles of communication between Black people in different parts of the Americas."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/6/2021
Bob Dole: War, Power, Defeated Ambitions, and Zingers
Colleagues remembered Dole's deadpan wit, which didn't translate well enough to the national stage for the Kansas legislator to win the presidency.
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SOURCE: CNN
11/28/2021
Carrie Meek, Trailblazing Black Congresswoman, Dies at 95
Carrie Meek was the daughter of sharecroppers and the granddaughter of a slave; she was elected to Congress from Florida in 1992 as one of the first Black representatives since Reconstruction.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/15/2021
Colin Morris, 1928-2021
Colin Morris identified the beginnings of the concept of individualism two centuries earlier than had previously been believed, part of a career of groundbreaking scholarship on the Middle Ages.
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SOURCE: Not Even Past
10/19/2021
In Memoriam: Robert Divine, 1929-2021
by H.W. Brands and Mark Atwood Lawrence
Two University of Texas colleagues pay tribute to the scholarly, teaching, and personal contributions of the late Robert Divine to the field of diplimatic history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/18/2021
Colin Powell Dies at 84; Career of Military and Diplomatic Leadership Featured Controversial Support for Iraq Invasion
“I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world,” Mr. Powell said, acknowledging that his presentation “will always be a part of my record.”
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
10/13/2021
Timuel Black, Historian and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 102
Among those expressing sadness at Mr. Black’s death was Barack Obama, who said “the city of Chicago and the world lost an icon with the passing of Timuel Black."
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SOURCE: Dissent
9/24/2021
The House that Charles Built: Moral Clarity for Racial Justice
by Jared Loggins
Beginning with 1997's "The Racial Contract," Mills unsparingly examined the intimate connections of racism and the liberal tradition; but his goal was always to reconstruct a truly inclusive version of liberalism.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/24/2021
Charles Sellers, 98, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies
Charles Sellers was an influential figure in explaining how the rise of market capitalism disrupted all aspects of American life, and argued this change was not for the better.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9/19/2021
Jonathan Mirsky: Historian Turned Beijing Correspondent, Mao Fan turned Critic of Beijing
After beginning an academic career in east Asian history, Mirsky reported on the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the Tiananmen demonstrations and massacre, letting the facts he observed change his assumptions.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/8/2021
Phil Schaap, Grammy-Winning Jazz D.J. and Historian, Dies at 70
“They say I’m a history teacher,” he said in a video interview for the National Endowment for the Arts, which this year named him a Jazz Master, the country’s highest official honor for a living jazz figure, but he viewed his role differently. “I teach listening.”
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/1/2021
Robert Middlekauff, Historian of Washington and His War, Dies at 91
Robert Middlekauff wrote what was long considered the best single-volume study of the American Revolution, "The Glorious Cause."
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/27/2021
Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, Dies at 85
In his best-known works, Dr. Oates explored the lives of four prominent figures — John Brown, Nat Turner, Lincoln and Dr. King — in what he called his “Civil War quartet.”
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