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| | Issues: Perspectives (Summer 2002): In Memoriam: R. R. Palmer |
 | | Robert R. Palmer, professor of history at Princeton and emeritus from Yale, died peacefully at home on June 11, 2002 at Pennswood Village in Newtown, Pa. He was 93. |
 | | His best-selling textbook, A History of the Modern World (1950, 9th ed., 2002, coauthored with Joel Colton since the 2nd edition), has been widely used for more than a half a century in both high schools and universities. |
 | | Robert Palmer is survived by Esther, his wife of 59 years, a son Stanley and his wife, Elizabeth, of Arlington, Texas, and their children Vanessa, David, Sonia and Ingrid; a son Richard in California; and a daughter Emily and her husband Keith Gawlik of Boulder, Colorado. |
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