ON MENTORING APPRENTICE HISTORIANS AND APPRECIATING MENTORS—GLEANED FROM THE MEMORIES OF OTHERS

Gavin Campbell had the sense that when he needed help, there was collaborative support in solving the issue.10 Christopher Lasch regarded graduate work at Columbia as a major letdown after the intellectual excitement he had experienced at Harvard as a student of Donald B. Meyer, who supervised his s...

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Published in:Reviews in American history 2012-06, Vol.40 (2), p.339-348
Main Author: KAMMEN, MICHAEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American history
Apprenticeships
College instruction
College students
Gordon, Linda
Graduate schools
Historians
History instruction
Intellectual history
Mentoring
Mentors
Personal relationships
Reflections
Social studies education
Student diversity
Teachers
Teaching
United States history
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Summary:Gavin Campbell had the sense that when he needed help, there was collaborative support in solving the issue.10 Christopher Lasch regarded graduate work at Columbia as a major letdown after the intellectual excitement he had experienced at Harvard as a student of Donald B. Meyer, who supervised his summa honors thesis in 1953-54.11 Decades later Meyer wrote the following about his former protégé: "finding the young Christopher Lasch in class forty years ago was something like Leo Durocher's first sight of Willie Mays. (According to one of his own Ph.D. students, Winther soon transferred to Stanford because Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. "bored him.")
ISSN:0048-7511
1080-6628
DOI:10.1353/rah.2012.0053