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Category: Formation Essay

H-Diplo Essay 200- Edwin E. Moise on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

March 6, 2020February 24, 2020 By Edwin E. Moise

My father, also named Edwin E. Moise, had more influence on the way I think about history than any of the professors who were formally my teachers. He was a mathematician, but had a wide range of other interests, including history both ancient and modern. I always planned to follow him into academia, but the…

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H-Diplo Essay 198- Robert Jervis on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

March 4, 2020February 24, 2020 By Robert Jervis

For as long as I can remember—and long before I knew there was a field called Political Science with a specialization in International Politics—I was intrigued by politics. This was due to a combination of what must have been my in-born nature, the strongly political atmosphere of New York in the 1940’s and 1950’s, and,…

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H-Diplo Essay 197- Robert Bothwell on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 28, 2020February 19, 2020 By Robert Bothwell

I once wrote an official history, dealing with the activities of a Canadian publicly owned and government-directed corporation.[2] It was a late arrival in the library of World War Two official histories, researched in the early 1980s and published in 1984. It was closely related to its American and British counterparts (the field was very…

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H-Diplo Essay 196- N. Piers Ludlow on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 26, 2020June 4, 2020 By N. Piers Ludlow

It might well have seemed inevitable that I would become a historian of postwar Western Europe in general and the European integration process in particular. My childhood was divided mainly between England, Italy, and Belgium, with shorter spells in France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands. I was schooled in Italian, French and English. And…

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H-Diplo Essay 195- Emily Rosenberg on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 21, 2020February 13, 2020 By H-Diplo

Like most roads in life, my path to becoming what was traditionally called a ‘diplomatic historian’ was full of chances. Even my survival as a 4.5 lb. preemie born in a ‘birthing home’ in Sheridan Wyoming in 1944 was a roll of the dice. As a (female) child, raised in Billings, Montana, during the 1950s…

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H-Diplo Essay 194- Philip Nord on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 19, 2020February 13, 2020 By Philip Nord

Why did I become an historian and an historian of France for that matter? And once an historian, why did I take on the subjects that I did? It’s not hard to put together answers to such questions, but it must be kept in mind that they are, like all historical explanations, retrospective constructions and…

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H-Diplo Essay 193- Lloyd Gardner on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 14, 2020February 22, 2020 By Lloyd Gardner

“Mr. Gardner, please come to see me in my office this afternoon at four o’clock if that is convenient.” It was mid-term time in the fall of my sophomore year at Ohio Wesleyan University. The summons was from Dr. Henry Clyde Hubbart, whose book, The Older Middle West, 1840-1880, published in 1936 had established him…

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H-Diplo Essay 190- A. G. Hopkins on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 12, 2020February 13, 2020 By A.G. Hopkins

Comments and cautions about a life committed to writing abound and have probably been with us since script was invented. Five hundred years ago, Erasmus assailed the scholarly life in a satire that sharpened the edge of truth to cutting point: “people who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… do not seem…

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H-Diplo Essay 189- David A. Hollinger on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 7, 2020February 8, 2020 By David A. Hollinger

In the fall semester of 1964 I took two graduate seminars at Berkeley in the subfields of American history I was then considering as a specialty. One was in diplomatic history, taught by Visiting Professor Gerald Wheeler. He was substituting for the Department’s on-leave Armin Rappoport, whose two-semester lecture course I had taken the year…

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H-Diplo Essay 188- Gerhard L. Weinberg on Learning the Scholar’s Craft

February 5, 2020February 1, 2020 By Gerhard L. Weinberg

Born in 1928 in Hannover, Germany, into a Jewish family, the new restrictions on Jews meant my being kicked out of the equivalent of the fifth grade in November 1938. The family had already applied for immigration into the United States, and we went to England to await the calling up of our “Quota Numbers”…

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