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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, historian of the downtrodden, dies at 94

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Add to your saved storiesSave A shepherd and shoemaker argue about who has greater money woes. A misogynist peasant grouses about women. A village priest becomes a double agent, pretending to care about his breakaway flock while working secretly with the Vatican to save his own skin. We are eavesdropping on the French hamlet of … Read more

Williamson Murray, struggle historian who peered past battles, dies at 81

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Williamson Murray, a navy historian and scholar whose work introduced deeper insights into Germany’s defeat in World Struggle II and who suggested U.S. commanders on methods to plan for the battlefields of the longer term, died Aug. 1 at a hospital in Fairfax, Va. He was 81. The demise was confirmed by his spouse, Lesley … Read more