Thursday, May 30, 2019

John Lukacs, a Historian for Our Times


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John Lukacs, A Historian For Our Times

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | May 30, 2019

https://www.nysun.com/national/john-lukacs-95-a-historian-for-our-times/90713/

John Lukacs, who died last week at 95, was one of America's outstanding historians, and one of the most prolific historians in the Western world in the last 60 years. A native of Hungary, he fled the Communist Soviet puppet regime in that country shortly after World War II and was a history professor at a small Roman Catholic women's college (Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia) for 47 years (1947–1994), the first 27 of those years as chairman of the history department.

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