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Liars for the Cause: When scholars ditch the truth.(Joseph J. Ellis)
Joseph J. Ellis may never have been in combat in Vietnam, but he is certainly getting shelled now. In June, the Boston Globe revealed that Ellis, a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is also a distinguished writer of fictions about himself. He told his students that he served in Vietnam; he didn't. He told them that when he got back home he became an antiwar activist. Not so. He said that he had done dangerous civil-rights work in Mississippi-another lie. He told a reporter that he had scored the winning touchdown for his high-school football team in the last game of his senior year. The Globe discovered that Ellis wasn't on ...
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- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Stein, Lisa September 23, 2002 700+ words
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis faces a tough task for a historian: putting the past behind him. Ellis is back teaching at Mount Holyoke College after a year's suspension for falsely claiming he was a platoon leader in Vietnam...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek July 2, 2001 700+ words
...Even before historian Joseph Ellis became a best-selling author...popular courses at the exclusive Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts...experience in Vietnam. But as Ellis's reputation grew--his...Boston Globe carried accounts of Ellis's experience as a platoon...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 2, 2009 700+ words
...empowerment, was named the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College at a special meeting of the...president will be introduced to the Mount Holyoke community today at a 4:15 p.m...college student, she graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1980 before earning her Ph.D...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 16, 1995 700+ words
...transmission details at the end of release) Mount Holyoke College, a pioneer in women's higher...University, Middletown, Connecticut. Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees chair, Mrs. Barbara...appointment as "a felicitous matching of the Mount Holyoke community's aspirations for meeting...
- Historian to Speak on Mount Holyoke College's Role in Shaping Women's...
- News wire article from: AScribe Science News Service February 23, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Feb. 23...will speak on "Not the Girls of Summers: Mount Holyoke Faculty and the Rise of American Science" at Mount Holyoke College on March 2. Levin is the author of...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Eckardt, Allison, Ledes September 1, 2002 700+ words
...1851, described the region around Mount Holyoke in the Connecticut River valley as...painting--Thomas Cole's View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after...have already commenced a view from Mount Holyoke; it is about the finest scene I have...
- Lynn Pasquerella Named President of Mount Holyoke College.
- Magazine article from: Entertainment Close-up November 10, 2009 700+ words
...empowerment, was named the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College at a special meeting of the...new president was introduced to the Mount Holyoke community on October 2 at a 4:15...college student, she graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1980 before earning her Ph.D...
- MOUNT HOLYOKE AT 150
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe November 16, 1987 700+ words
...education, called the school Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Her vision...donations as small as six cents, and Mount Holyoke opened to a first class of 80...Nov. 8, 1837. Since then, Mount Holyoke College, as it is now known...
