Report for the Academic Years 1987-1988 and 1988-1989

THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
Academic Activities of the Professors Emeriti
Academic Years 1987-88 and 1988-89
MARSHALL CLAGETT completed and published the first volume of Artcient Egyptian
Science: A Source Book and worked on the volumes that wall follow. His Greek Science
in Antiquity was reprinted with some corrections.
FELLX GILBERT published A European Past: Memoirs 1905-1945 and a German edi-
tion entided Lehrjahre im alten Europa: Erinnerungen 1905-1945. He completed a
book of essays on Ranke and Burckhardt and published articles and reviews in
American, German and English journals and papers.
GEORGE KENNAN'S book. Sketches from a Life, was published by Pantheon Press in
1989. Professor Kennan testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee, appeared in televised and print interviews, lectured widely and published
numerous articles on Gorbachev, Gromyko, contemporary European affairs and
"the German question."
KENNETH M. SETTON completed the text of a book on Venice, Austria, and the
Turks in the Seventeenth Century as well as the sixth and final volume of ^ History
of the Crusades, of which he is editor-in-chief His 1956 work, Tlie Byzantine
Background to the Italian Renaissance, appeared in Greek translation.
HOMER A. THOMPSON continues to be involved in the publication program of the
excavation of the Athenian Agora under the auspices of the American School of
Classical Studies. Three new volumes—one dealing with inscriptions and two
with the Athenian courts of law—are now in manuscript, and several other vol-
umes are nearing completion.
MORTON WHITE'S book, Philosophy, "Tlie Federalist, " and the Constitution, was
published in 1987 and reprinted as a paperback in 1989. Articles have appeared
in Rutgers Law Review, Ethics and the German journal Dialectica. During both
years Professor White served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers Uni-
venity. In September 1989 he participated in a conference on advanced study
sponsored by the newly established International Institute for Advanced Studies
in Kyoto.
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