Jim Lindgren’s post heading at The Volokh Conspiracy says it all: Chronicle Review Admits Bellesiles’s Story is False — Blames Student, not Bellesiles The Chronicle‘s statement is here. (Scroll down past Bellesiles’s story.) Somehow I don’t think we’ve heard the last of this. We’ve discussed it before here and here and here.
Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy says: Late Monday afternoon, I received a one-sentence email from Liz McMillen, Editor of the Chronicle Review: I just wanted to let you know that we are looking into the questions you have raised in your blog post Friday about Michael Bellesiles’s article for us. Lindgren on Bellesiles’s June [...]
Trip Gabriel at the NYT reports on test-taking at a school in Queens: Multiple choice: New York State’s fifth-grade social studies test was given Nov. 16 and 17. After students completed the test, which of the following should NOT have occurred: (A) Students waited patiently to learn the results. (B) Students enjoyed the week without [...]
Scott McLemee—essayist, critic and blogger at Inside Higher Ed—takes a look at the publisher’s statement for historian Michael Bellesiles’ forthcoming book 1877: America’s Year of Living Violently. (We recently talked about the Michael Bellesiles scandal here.) From the publisher, New Press: “A major new work of popular history, 1877 is also notable as the comeback [...]
Stanford Professor of Law Jim Lindgren over at The Volokh Conspiracy is raising some important questions about academic and journalistic ethics. He’s talking about a recent piece by historian, author and college professor Michael Bellesiles in The Chronicle of Higher Education. In “Teaching Military History in a Time of War,” Bellesiles tells the story of [...]