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Originally Posted by steven clark
In 1982 I had a seminar with Noble Cunningham. At Mizzou, he was highly regarded, although I found him very dry, and since the course was about doing historical research and I wasn't really cut out for grad school, it was doubly dry. I had to have to have a beer before I went to the seminar to get through it, but I admit Cunningham was a very good Jefferson scholar. He had little patience with the revisionist accounts of Jefferson.
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The name "Noble" suggests an older man, Southern or Midwestern; if so, it might go a ways toward explaining his view. About how old was he at that time?