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Arvarh Strickland
Historian and fifty-year member of the OAH, Arvarh Strickland, died April 30, 2013 at the age of 82. Strickland made history in 1969 when he became the first African American to hold a tenure-track position at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He served with distinction in various capacities as a faculty member and chair of the Department of History; principal architect of the MU Black Studies Program; associate vice president of academic affairs, University of Missouri System; and special assistant to the MU Chancellor. Read more >
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Georgetown University professor and OAH Life Member, passed away in December, 2012. Read more >
Robert Remini
Robert Remini, former historian for the US House of Representatives, died April 1, 2013. He was 91 years old. A member of the Organization of American Historians for more than 52 years, Remini was an award-winning biographer and "foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time." Read more >
Walter L. Sargent
Walter L. Sargent, University of Maine Farmington, passed away on January 27. Read more >
Vernon S. "Pete" Braswell
Vernon S. "Pete" Braswell died January 31, 2013. Braswell taught American history at Del Mar College from 1965 until 1989. He was in his fiftieth year as a member of the Organization of American Historians. Read more >
Edward M. Bennett
Edward M. Bennett died on March 3, 2013. He taught for 33 years at Washington State University and was a member of the OAH for more than 50 years. Read more >
Robert H. Zieger
Robert H. Zieger, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Florida, passed away on March 6, 2013. Zieger, a fify-one-year member of the OAH, began his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1964 and moved to the University of Florida in 1986. Paul Ortiz, University of Florida, has written a remembrance of Professor Zieger for the Southern Labor Studies Association Web site. Read more >
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