Beschreibung:
David Kaiser began his serious study of history as a Harvard undergraduate in the fall of 1965 and began his professional career as a junior faculty member in 1976. During the next 37 years, he taught dozens of courses, wrote seven books, changed the lives of many students, and carefully observed the changes in the four institutions in which he taught, as well as in the historical profession, the humanities, and higher education more generally. A Life in History tells this compelling and provocative story.
CONTENTS
Introduction ix
I. Beginnings 1
II. Harvard College, 1965-69 17
III. The Making of an Historian 1971-76 57
IV. Heaven and Hell 1976-80 89
V. At Carnegie Mellon 1980-86 147
VI. The Fork in the Road 1987-91 189
VII. At the War College 1991-99 225
VIII. In a New Century 2000-2006 269
IX. Back at Home 2006-7 305
X. Winding up 2008-13 333
XI. The Crisis in History 371
Index 389