William E. Leuchtenburg, Scholar of F.D.R. and the Presidency, Dies at 102 NYT Par : Sewell Chan 29 janvier 2025 à 21:26 His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years. © Dan Sears/U.N.C.-Chapel HillWilliam E. Leuchtenburg in 2009 at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He helped shape America’s conception of its past during the prosperous 1950s and ’60s.
‘Dean of American Historians’: Ken Burns on William E. Leuchtenburg NYT Par : Michael S. Rosenwald 29 janvier 2025 à 21:03 One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.