![]() ![]() ![]() During his visit, the topic would be capital punishment. ![]() Next, Fischer says, he visited a Southern university, “a great and honorable place,” where he was delighted to learn that some members of the history department had a long-standing tradition of convening every Monday evening to discuss the great topics of the day. Instead, the pair was more interested in “who my grandparents had been and where I bought my sport coat,” Fischer recalls with a laugh. To his amazement, Fischer says, at the first “very old and eminent school in the Northeast” he met the president and the dean - a sure sign a meaty historical discussion with two intellectual heavyweights was imminent, or so he thought. A little more than a half century ago, historian David Hackett Fischer was a newly minted PhD from Johns Hopkins University with offers in hand from four universities, including one from a very young, brash institution in Waltham.Ĭlearly in demand, the ambitious historian set out to do what any well-trained scholar would do: conduct primary research about each potential employer. ![]()
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