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Jim Downs
Jim Downs is an American historian. He is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Studies and History at Gettysburg College. Downs is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He earned his PhD at Columbia University under the direction of Eric Foner. He received his BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, his MA in American Studies from Columbia University, where he also earned his M.Phil in History. With the support of the Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship, he returned to graduate school, where he studied medical anthropology, global health, and epidemiology at Harvard University.
Article summary
Jim Downs is an American historian. He is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Studies and History at Gettysburg College. Downs is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. He earned his PhD at Columbia University under the direction of Eric Foner. He received his BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, his MA in American Studies from Columbia University, where he also earned his M.Phil in History. With the support of the Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship, he returned to graduate school, where he studied medical anthropology, global health, and epidemiology at Harvard University.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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