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vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">John Morton Blum</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1921-04-29</span>)</span>April 29, 1921<br />New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">October 17, 2011<span style="display:none">(2011-10-17)</span> (aged 90)<br /><a href="/wiki/North_Branford,_Connecticut" title="North Branford, Connecticut">North Branford, Connecticut</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Historical</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Pamela Zink Blum</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">3</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Morton Blum</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ʌ/: 'u' in 'cut'">ʌ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span></span>/</a></span></span>; April 29, 1921 – October 17, 2011) was an American historian, active from 1948 to 1991. He was a specialist in 20th-century American <a href="/wiki/Political_history" title="Political history">political history</a>, and was a senior advisor to <a href="/wiki/Yale" class="mw-redirect" title="Yale">Yale</a> officials. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blum was born in New York City, the son of Edna (LeVino) Blum, a confectioner,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Morton Gustave Blum, a businessman and inventor.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He came from a Jewish household of limited means.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In high school he met <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> administrator <a href="/wiki/Henry_Chauncey" title="Henry Chauncey">Henry Chauncey</a>, who spotted his talent and arranged for him to spend his senior year at <a href="/wiki/Phillips_Academy" title="Phillips Academy">Phillips Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He went on to attend Harvard University on scholarships and campus jobs.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon graduation in 1943, he was commissioned as an ensign in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>, serving in the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>, the <a href="/wiki/South_West_Pacific_theatre_of_World_War_II" title="South West Pacific theatre of World War II">South West Pacific theatre of World War II</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Iwo_Jima" title="Iwo Jima">Iwo Jima</a>. In 1950 he returned to Harvard to write his PhD under the direction of <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Merk" title="Frederick Merk">Frederick Merk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DMK_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMK-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blum married Pamela Zink in 1946 and had three children.<sup id="cite_ref-Storied_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Storied-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He taught at <a href="/wiki/MIT" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT">MIT</a> from 1948 to 1957 before moving to <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> in 1957. He retired in 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-Harvard_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harvard-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kansas_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kansas-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Iconic_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iconic-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Professor_at_Yale">Professor at Yale</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Professor at Yale"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blum was on the history faculty at Yale for 34 years, where he taught and influenced thousands of students. One of them in his large lecture class was future U.S. President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>. Blum later admitted "I haven't the foggiest recollection of him",<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Bush remembered and cited Blum's influence in his commencement speech at Yale in May 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-APP_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APP-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other prominent students of his include Professor <a href="/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Louis Gates">Henry Louis Gates</a>, who considered Blum to be his mentor,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as Professor Laura Kalman (University of California, Santa Barbara),<sup id="cite_ref-Kalman_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kalman-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Steve Gillon, resident historian of the <a href="/wiki/History_(U.S._TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="History (U.S. TV channel)">History Channel</a>, Massachusetts Senator <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a>, and Connecticut Senator <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lieberman" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Lieberman">Joseph Lieberman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Iconic_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iconic-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blum was one of the "Big Three" in Yale's History Department along with <a href="/wiki/C._Vann_Woodward" title="C. Vann Woodward">C. Vann Woodward</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Morgan_(historian)" title="Edmund Morgan (historian)">Edmund Morgan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-PM_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and served as chairman of the History Department in the late 1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-Iconic_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Iconic-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his death, the John Morton Blum Fellowship in American History and Culture was established at Yale.<sup id="cite_ref-Fellowship_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fellowship-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historian">Historian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Historian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Author">Author</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Author"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blum is the author of several historical works, including <i>Joseph Tumulty and the Wilson Era</i> (1951) (about President <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson's</a> private secretary <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Patrick_Tumulty" title="Joseph Patrick Tumulty">Joseph Patrick Tumulty</a>), <i>The Republican Roosevelt</i> (1954), <i>V Was for Victory</i> (1977) (about <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>), and <i>Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974</i> (1992) (covering U.S. politics from the inauguration of U.S. President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> to the resignation of U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>). He also published a mystery novel based on Yale, <i>An Old Blue Corpse</i> (2005).<sup id="cite_ref-Alumni_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alumni-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote a memoir, <i>A Life with History</i> (2004), detailing his years on the nation's top history faculty, where he witnessed the privileged mostly white <a href="/wiki/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="White Anglo-Saxon Protestant">WASP</a> student body grow in diversity, describing it as "not a refuge from reality but an alternative reality". </p><p>Perhaps Blum's most widely read work was <i>The National Experience: A History of the United States</i> (1963), a university history textbook he edited and co-authored with <a href="/wiki/William_S._McFeely" title="William S. McFeely">William S. McFeely</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_S._Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund S. Morgan">Edmund S. Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_M._Schlesinger_Jr." title="Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.">Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_M._Stampp" title="Kenneth M. Stampp">Kenneth M. Stampp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPost_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPost-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His 1954 book <i>The Republican Roosevelt</i> restored the reputation of U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, rescuing it from <a href="/wiki/Henry_F._Pringle" title="Henry F. Pringle">Henry F. Pringle</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>-winning 1931 biography <i>Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography</i>, which portrayed him as a blustering politician who never grew up that kept him from being taken seriously. However Blum's prose came under attack: "In contrast to many biographers, Blum is not a natural writer; his style is neither elegant nor smooth. Instead, his sentences are often awkward and clunky and force the reader to sip rather than drink freely."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A specialist on the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>, Blum wrote <i>From the Morgenthau Diaries</i> (3 vols., 1959–1967), a biography closely based on the diaries of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau_Jr." title="Henry Morgenthau Jr.">Henry Morgenthau Jr.</a> (1891–1967), <a href="/wiki/United_States_Treasury_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Treasury Secretary">United States Treasury Secretary</a> in 1934–1945. Blum was also prolific as an editor, serving as co-editor of <i>The Letters of <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a></i> (8 vols., 1951–1954), edited by <a href="/wiki/Elting_E._Morison" title="Elting E. Morison">Elting E. Morison</a>. </p><p>In 1980 Blum published <i>Liberty, Justice, Order: Writings on Past Politics</i>, 13 essays containing profiles of 10 political leaders representing the first seven decades of the 20th century, including <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Croly" title="Herbert Croly">Herbert Croly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Hanna" title="Mark Hanna">Mark Hanna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt" title="Eleanor Roosevelt">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace" title="Henry A. Wallace">Henry Wallace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish" title="Archibald MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Lippman" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Lippman">Walter Lippman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Earl Warren</a>, bringing out their efforts to foster social justice and economic equality. </p><p>He also edited the letters of <a href="/wiki/Walter_Lippmann" title="Walter Lippmann">Walter Lippmann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_A._Wallace" title="Henry A. Wallace">Henry A. Wallace</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_and_television">Film and television</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Film and television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blum made a cameo appearance as himself in the 1983 <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> film <i><a href="/wiki/Zelig" title="Zelig">Zelig</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-NYT2_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT2-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he has appeared in various documentaries on <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> such as the <i><a href="/wiki/American_Experience" title="American Experience">American Experience</a></i> series, including <i>Theodore Roosevelt</i> in 1996 with fellow historian <a href="/wiki/David_McCullough" title="David McCullough">David McCullough</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PBS_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PBS-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999 he appeared in "The Great War" segment of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Century:_America%27s_Time" title="The Century: America's Time">The Century: America's Time</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-IMDB_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IMDB-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honors_and_awards">Honors and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Honors and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1960)<sup id="cite_ref-DMK_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMK-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Pitt Professorship at Cambridge (1963–1964)<sup id="cite_ref-DMK_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMK-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Vyvyan_Harmsworth_Professor_of_American_History" title="Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History">Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History</a> at <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> (1976–1977)<sup id="cite_ref-DMK_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMK-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Degree from Harvard University (1980)<sup id="cite_ref-DMK_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMK-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Joseph Tumulty and the Wilson Era</i> (1951).</li> <li><i>The Republican Roosevelt</i> (1954) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Republican_Roosevelt.html?id=pynyy2YCzwAC">read online</a></li> <li><i>The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt</i> (8 vols.) (1954) (ed. with <a href="/wiki/Elting_E._Morison" title="Elting E. Morison">Elting E. Morison</a>).</li> <li><i>From the Morgenthau Diaries</i> (3 vols.) (1959–1967). "Years of Crisis, 1928–1938" (1959), "Years of Urgency, 1938–1941" (1965), "Years of War, 1941–1945" (1967).</li> <li><i>The National Experience: A History of the United States</i> (with <a href="/wiki/William_S._McFeely" title="William S. McFeely">William S. McFeely</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edmund_S._Morgan" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund S. Morgan">Edmund S. Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_M._Schlesinger_Jr." title="Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.">Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_M._Stampp" title="Kenneth M. Stampp">Kenneth M. Stampp</a>) (1963)</li> <li><i>V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II</i> (1977) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/V_was_for_Victory.html?id=tM3jNEU_WhQC">read online</a></li> <li><i>The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson</i> (1980) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/progressivepresi00blum">online</a></li> <li><i>Liberty, Justice, Order: Writings on Past Politics</i> (1980, 1993) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092959/http://pdf23.crumbpdf.org/492h7_liberty-justice-order-essays-on-past-politics.pdf">read online</a></li> <li><i>Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961–1974</i> (1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Years_of_Discord.html?id=aa3lK5W4SfsC">online edition</a></li> <li><i>A Life with History</i> (autobiography) (Harvard University Press, 2004)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Morton_Blum&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Blum, Historian of Presidents, Dies at 90"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=John+M.+Blum%2C+Historian+of+Presidents%2C+Dies+at+90&rft.date=2011-10-22&rft.aulast=Vitello&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F10%2F22%2Fnyregion%2Fjohn-m-blum-historian-who-gave-theodore-roosevelt-his-due-dies-at-90.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Morton+Blum" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(Blum 2004)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DMK-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DMK_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DMK_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DMK_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DMK_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DMK_5-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">David M. Kennedy, "John Morton Blum, 1921–2001: Historian of Modern America," <i>Perspectives on History</i> (December 2011).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Storied-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Storied_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/oct/18/storied-professor-dies/?cross-campus">"Storied professor dies"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111227113831/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/oct/18/storied-professor-dies/?cross-campus">Archived</a> December 27, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. <i>The Yale Daily News</i>. 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University of California, Santa Barbara. Accessed October 21, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PM-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PM_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/FHTTaReview">"From Here to There: A Review"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190824102821/http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/FHTTaReview">Archived</a> August 24, 2019, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. PM Press. 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