Subject: RE: US Sedition Act

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Sun Nov 11 11:42:55 PST 2001


On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, michael pugliese wrote:


> "At the American Historical Association convention in 1969,
> Staughton Lynd and Eugene Genovese engaged in a shouting match at the
> business meeting and wrestled for control of the microphone as they
> vied for the chance to represent the radicals. Ultimately, all the
> radical proposals lost..."

That's not quite right. Far from "vying for a chance to represent the radicals," Genovese attacked them bitterly and argued on the floor of the meeting against an anti-war statement. (And the rather genteel wrestling match was between Fairbank and Zinn, the former having grabbed the microphone away from the latter.) --CGE



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