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Roy's "Hobby"
My friendship with Roy goes back more than a quarter century. We met at the Radical History Review in the late 1970s, where we were both editors, hit it off pretty quickly because we were both interested in non-traditional ways to do history, and…
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Roy's Marvelous Adventure
Roy Rosenzweig cannot die and as long as his students live, he will not die. I am one of his students and I carry a lot of Roy Rosenzweig with me everywhere I go. It was Roy’s book, The Park and the People, that inspired me to return to…
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Other people can speak more intelligently about Roy's scholarship, more intimately about his friendship, than I. What I can say about Roy is that he set a standard of decency and kindness to which we should all aspire.
I began to suspect Roy…
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Remembering Roy Rosenzweig
Where to begin? It’s the only possible response when asked to remember Roy Rosenzweig. Academics are fortunate if they are able to become pioneers or innovators in a single field; Roy managed to found or advance at least three fields: social…
Rosenzweig Hates Me!
In this story I'm pretty much of a fool, and fate protects the foolish, but the story will have a lot of familiar aspect of Roy.
Many years ago in my first tenure track job I learned that my dissertation director had been named president of…