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Tag Archives: Strunk and White
Rites of Passage Part III: John V., Il Miglior Fabbro
Learning at the feet of the master In furtherance of my naïve but exuberant efforts to learn how to think, my history T.A.-cum-guru John Hosmer suggested that I take a class with his Ph.D. advisor, John V. Mering. It was the … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, historiography, history, language, mentor, professor, Reconstruction, slavery, Strunk and White, student
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Gonnegtions
In the early 1980s, I was watching an episode of Charles Kuralt’s Sunday Morning in which he chronicled the demise of an important family-owned newspaper. I’ll have to call it the Tribune because I have long since forgotten the newspaper and the family and the … Continue reading