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Reminiscences of Sigmund Diamond
Family and early education; work with United Automobile Workers, Detroit, 1943-1948; doctoral candidate, Harvard, 1949-1954: relationship with faculty, job offer as Dean of Special Students, 1954; withdrawal of offer because of former membership in Communist Party; efforts of some faculty to intervene on his behalf; decision to inform prospective employers of events at Harvard and effects on job search, especially at Amherst and Columbia; visiting assistant professor at Columbia, 1955; links between Harvard and Federal Bureau of Investigation during McCarthy period.
Compromised Campus
Examines the role of the FBI in dealing with American universities regarding loyalty matters. The author has used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover instances of FBI illegal activities in this area.
Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.
The Intellectual Sword
A history of Harvard Law School in the twentieth century, focusing on the school’s precipitous decline prior to 1945 and its dramatic postwar resurgence amid national crises and internal discord. By the late nineteenth century, Harvard Law School had transformed legal education and become the preeminent professional school in the nation. But in the early 1900s, HLS came to the brink of financial failure and lagged its peers in scholarly innovation. It also honed an aggressive intellectual culture famously described by Learned Hand: “In the universe of truth, they lived by the sword. They asked no quarter of absolutes, and they gave none.” After World War II, however, HLS roared back. I...
