Another History Scandal?

History News Network has just published a long analysis of a thirty year old controversy over alleged plagiarism in a doctoral dissertation at Columbia, and the author’s response.

The whole thing is very depressing, and probably would not have received this sort of attention were it not for the recent controversies over Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose. According to the HNN article, sexism and politics are also involved.

Perhaps InstaPundit, who has written often and well about the issue of plagiarism (see here for a good example; search his site for many others), will weigh in on this. I hope so.

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