tributes

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  12/5/2020
  

  Stephen F. Cohen Helped Us Understand the Russian Revolution and Nikolai Bukharin

  by Kevin Murphy

  A fellow historian of Russia and the Soviet Union praises Stephen Cohen's scholarship and willingness to question orthodoxies in examining the internal diversity of revolutionary Communism. 

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• SOURCE: Lexington Courier-Journal
  12/2/2020
  

  Beloved University of Kentucky History Professor Dies from COVID-19 Months into Retirement

  Professor Bruce Holle of the University of Kentucky was a "student magnet" during his 45-year career. He passed away due to complications of COVID-19 on November 30. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/2/2020
  

  David Hackett, Historian and Holocaust Expert, Dies at 80

  Professor Hackett was noted for translating "The Buchenwald Report," made by German-speaking US military officers who described in detail their findings at the liberated concentration camp, preserving a key document for the fight against Holocaust denialism. He died of complications of the coronavirus. 

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• SOURCE: Cornell Chronicle
  12/1/2020
  

  American History Scholar Richard Polenberg Dies at 83

  Colleagues remember Richard "Dick" Polenberg as a generous and compassionate colleague and mentor as well as an inspiring teacher and accomplished scholar of modern American history.

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• SOURCE: Society for U.S. Intellectual History
  9/9/2020
  

  The Interdisciplinarity and Influence of Alan Trachtenberg

  by Jennifer Giuliano and Lauren Tilton

  "The need to interrogate, understand, and even disrupt how we see images is a part of Trachtenberg’s enduring legacy that becomes more important as researchers are distanced from physical archives." The work of Alan Trachtenberg in developing historical methodologies for understanding images is crucial for historians' ability to speak to current affairs.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/3/2020
  

  In Memory of David Graeber, Listen to A BBC Interview on the History of Debt

  Anthropologist David Graeber, whose works included the influential book Debt: The First 5,000 Years has recently passed away. This 1996 BBC interview explores the terrain of that book and the significance of debt as a political force. 

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• SOURCE: Legal History Blog
  8/30/2020
  

  Anne Fleming: Business Historians Remember

  Anne Fleming is remembered as an outstanding scholar and generous colleague.