July 20, 2001

Why Are Academics Ducking the Ellis Case?

By ELLIOTT J. GORN

I've had lots of conversations about Joseph J. Ellis with colleagues this summer, and there's been something a little odd about these discussions.

Ellis, for those who missed the story, is a historian at Mount Holyoke College, a gifted teacher and senior professor whose books on the American colonial era won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. But last month, The Boston Globe disclosed that Ellis had fabricated some of his own personal history. More precisely, while teaching

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