Posts by Alfred Brophy

Nimitz Library removed nearly 400 books. Not really. Among others, this is removed: Reginald Horsman's Josiah Nott of Mobile: Southerner, Physician, and Racial Theorist (1987). I am familiar with this,…

Ted Afield is going to be visiting with the faculty lounge blog. Afield is a professor at Georgia State University School of Law.  Aflied "serves as the Associate Dean for…

Amidst all the talk of compromise of late, I thought I'd talk a little bit about another politician who celebrated compromise: John Kennedy.  I'm working (slowly) on an essay about…

  Where is it? What is it? (This is only what it is, I think.)

Service and Segregation in Virginia Public Libraries. It is an excellent article. I was a loyal patron of the Library of Virginia in 1990-91. The Library of Virginia was segregated…

Professor Kiah Duggins, who was going to teach at Howard Law School next fall, was tragically killed in the American Airlines crash. She was educated at Harvard Law School, and…

He passed away in January 2025, at 102 years old. Leunchtenburg taught at Columbia University and then taught at the UNC history department. He produced The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932 …

I am very sorry to report Stephan Thernstrom was a Harvard history professor. Thernstrom was a huge figure -- particularly Poverty and Progress: Social Mobility in the 19th Century and The Other…

Where is it?

Beverley Tucker's Partisan Leader in 1836 predicted the Civil War, twenty-five years before the Civil War. Causation and correlation... I don't think so.