March 1, 2002

History for Sale

By ELLIOTT J. GORN

I tell my students in United States history survey classes that they are wasting their time if they major in business or engineering, that the real money is in history. It is a little humor on the first day of class, an icebreaker. Who knew?

Historians have another scandal on their hands, or to put it more charitably, we have another story of human weakness. Last year came revelations that Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Ellis, of Mount Holyoke College, had for decades fabricated a

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