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	Joseph Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph J. Ellis is a Professor of history at Mount Holyoke College and currently lives in Holyoke Massachusetts with his wife and three sons.
		Ellis became the subject of controversy when the Boston Globe revealed in 2001 that he had exaggerated his involvement in the Vietnam War (he served in uniform in America but did not go to Vietnam as he had claimed to students and to the media).
		Ellis has a particular interest in the imperfection of his subjects and himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Ellis (283 words)

	Booknotes
		JOSEPH ELLIS: Because he was a very wise man and also a very fiery, emotional, vituperative, sometimes angry, sometimes obscene fellow, and it's the title because I thought it captured in a way that might be memorable the kind of paradoxical character of this otherwise thought of as icon, very human but also extraordinarily wise.
		ELLIS: That's a story that on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration, or the supposed anniversary, July 4, 1826, both Jefferson and Adams were nearing death, and they were two of the last three of the original signers of the Declaration to still be alive and certainly the most prominent.
		ELLIS: Jefferson was the head and the titular leader of what was then called the Republican Party and came to be called the Democratic Party.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1165 (6752 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Historian Joseph Ellis reviews the 'imperfection' of his subjects, and himself
		Joseph J. Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, sits thoughtfully in his study, hands clasped and pressed against his chin, eyes soft and voice composed as he ponders what he has learned over the past three years.
		Ellis suddenly came to resemble one of his historical subjects, a man of high achievement shadowed by flaws in character.
		Ellis quickly apologized and issued a statement saying he was "solely responsible" for his actions.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/23/historian_joseph_ellis_reviews_the_imperfection_of_his_subjects_and_himself (543 words)

	Jeffersonian Politics: Joseph Ellis
		Ellen Goodman (Boston Globe) [In a column dated June 26, 2001, "I Talk With Joe Ellis," (no longer available online) Ellen Goodman wrote wondering why Joseph Ellis would falsify his military experience, claiming to have served in Vietnam and to have been active in the civil rights struggle, plus other minor infractions of the truth.
		Ellis noted in the revised version that in his original edition he felt "the likelihood of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison was remote, offering several plausible readings of the indirect evidence (i.e., Jefferson's voice in his letters to women; the reasons his enemies doubted the charges) to support my conjecture.
		Ellis was coauthor of the 1998 story "Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child" in which he, making full use of his prestige as a Jefferson biographer, affirmed that Jefferson indeed was the father of a child by his slave Sally Hemings.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/7842/jeffersonians/jpfor001.htm (3089 words)

	Joseph Ellis & Scissons Syndrome
		Joseph P. Ellis won the 1997 National Book Award for his Jefferson biography, "American Sphinx," and more recently authored "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," which won the Pulitzer Prize and has been a best–seller for twenty–six weeks.
		Ellis not only claimed to have been a paratrooper in Vietnam, but also said he was a member of the staff of General Westmoreland in Saigon and that he had been interviewed by David Halberstam for "The Best and the Brightest."
		Ellis is not the first to go down this road.
	www.mobylives.com /Crepeau_column.html (887 words)

	The Chronicle: July 13, 2001: In Wake of the Scandal Over Joseph Ellis, Scholars Ask 'Why?' and 'What Now?'
		Ellis will be held responsible for his retrofitted patriotism, though they are loath to be more specific than a promise "to arrive at a fair and judicious assessment." Ms.
		Ellis is a history professor, by reporting that he had for years been lying to colleagues, reporters, and students about his own role in history.
		Ellis should be barred from the classroom and from "ever teaching history again." But at the same time, the law professor noted that the full story has not been told.
	chronicle.com /free/v47/i44/44a01001.htm (2852 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Dialogue with Joseph Ellis--August 11, 1997
		JOSEPH ELLIS: One thing that’s at the core is a--and I think that this is something that is becoming a more potent force in American politics of the last decade or so--is a fundamental aversion to federal power or aggregated, or what he would say consolidated political power of any sort.
		JOSEPH ELLIS: In that way--if one said why is he coming back, I would say it’s because he speaks to that part of our political life that has come into existence since 1989.
		JOSEPH ELLIS: Primarily because over the last twenty to twenty-five years, race has become one of the major windows through which people looking back at American history are trying to see things.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/august97/ellis_8-11.html (1047 words)

	Amazon.com: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation: Books
		Ellis focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation's capital was determined--in exchange for support of Hamilton's financial plan; Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address; and the Hamilton and Burr duel.
		Ellis repeatedly informs us what the world was like in the 1790's, when there was little historical precedence for a republican style of government or a biracial society.
		Throughout the text, Ellis explains the personal, face-to-face nature of early American politics--and notes that the members of the revolutionary generation were conscious of the fact that they were establishing precedents on which future generations would rely.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375705244?v=glance (2036 words)

	Joseph Ellis
		Joseph Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Founding Brothers and was a professor at Mt. Holyoke for many years, broken by a one-year suspension for fabricating an enviable military career as a platoon leader in Vietnam.
		Beloved by his studends and respected by his readers, he was widely seen as betraying both by his lies, both about himslef and about Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joseph_Ellis.html (86 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 06/21/2001 -- 02
		Ellis would not be teaching his class on the Vietnam War came after the release late Tuesday of a statement by the president of Mount Holyoke, Joanne V. Creighton.
		Ellis had admitted his false claims to her personally and that he had offered "his deepest apologies." She avoided specifying what further actions Mount Holyoke might take in the matter.
		Ellis had confessed to using made-up stories about Vietnam in class lectures, he was not scheduled to teach his Vietnam course next year.
	chronicle.com /free/2001/06/2001062102n.htm (748 words)

	Boundless: The Phony Professor
		As the Globe reported June 18, Ellis was never in Vietnam; he spent the war on the East Coast, and his main military experience consisted of a few years on the history faculty at West Point.
		Ellis, you see, has been teaching a popular course on the Vietnam War and American culture in which he's been regaling students with tales of his Army experiences in 'Nam, and how the horrors he saw there turned him into an antiwar protester upon his return to Yale grad school.
		In the age of Ellis, Rather and Clinton, there may be no satire equal to the inanities that pass the lips of professors, anchormen and presidents.
	www.boundless.org /2000/regulars/kaufman/a0000450.html (1199 words)

	NYC.gov - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - Industry Star of the Month
		A veteran of the department since January 1985, Ellis saves time for production companies by streamlining his services, and his procedure is simple.
		Based on this meeting, Ellis determines necessary resources and once all parties agree to the plan– the production company provides him with a formal letter of intent which reiterates the scene requirements and provisions for traffic agents that were discussed.
		Ellis' unit also handles a service for production companies that minimizes the impact of production parking in neighborhoods, and saves money for the company.
	www.nyc.gov /html/film/html/news/star_ellis.shtml (665 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Joseph Ellis
		Joseph Ellis, eminent historian, is widely praised for his ability to bring fresh insight to the well-known lives of the leaders of the American Revolution.
		New York State Writers Institute - Joseph Ellis
		Ellis gives us a succinct character study while drawing on his extensive knowledge of Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary history to strip away the accretions of myth and contemporary extemporizing that have grown up around his subject.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/ellis_joseph.html (444 words)

	Book Beat: Should Joseph J. Ellis' private life be addresed at his public forum?
		These were the kinds of questions considered by the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library after it was revealed that Joseph J. Ellis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, had lied about his military service during the Vietnam War.
		Ellis need not be subjected to harangues or harassment during his free Seattle talk, which takes place at 7:30 p.m.
		Ellis' most extensive public comments in the wake of the revelations came in a written statement issued through his Boston attorney, including Ellis' recognition that he was "solely responsible" for doing "something both stupid and wrong." He apologized to "those Vietnam veterans who have expressed their understandable anger about my lie."
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/55714_book25.shtml (860 words)

	Beyond Books - Guest Experts - Joseph Ellis
		Joseph Ellis received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.
		Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
		Ellis is a rare breed of scholar - one who writes engagingly and with clarity.
	www.beyondbooks.com /chat/2000/ellis.asp (435 words)

	Has Scandal Taken Its Toll on Joseph Ellis?
		The Associated Press observed that "Ellis suddenly came to resemble one of his historical subjects, a man of high achievement shadowed by flaws in character." Ellis in his interview with the Associated Press said "the notion that [Washington] could not tell a lie is itself an adolescent fable.
		Fischer complained that Ellis was unduly harsh, comparing Ellis's account of Washington's military leadership with the infamous debunking books that appeared in the 1920s.
		Ellis returned to teaching in the fall of 2002.
	hnn.us /articles/8656.html (1146 words)

	BookPage Interview November 2004: Joseph J. Ellis
		Like many of us, historian Joseph Ellis long considered George Washington a distant, almost unapproachable icon, "aloof and silent, like the man in the moon." Then Ellis began research for a chapter about Washington's farewell address in Founding Brothers, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about America's revolutionary generation.
		Ellis fleshes out His Excellency by dipping judiciously into an ocean of new scholarship on the American Revolution, the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, slavery and colonial and early American history in general.
		Ellis works at home in a large upstairs office, usually surrounded by his Jack Russell terrier, a cat and a golden retriever.
	www.bookpage.com /0411bp/joseph_ellis.html (740 words)

	American Sphinx, The Character of Thomas Jefferson, by Joseph J. Ellis
		In truth, it is a sad day for America when Joseph Ellis becomes the public spokesman for the memory of Thomas Jefferson, whether or not he was a person who had lied for years about his own life and achievements.
		Ellis, indeed, is respectful enough of Jefferson, but respect is hardly what is required by his views; and he is dismissive enough of Jefferson's principles that it would not be too surprising were he to turn out dismissive of Jefferson altogether.
		Ellis does not seem to even be aware that the natural rights theory of Locke, whose existence he acknowledges but which he leaves conflated with the theory of Rousseau, presents very different ideas about the purpose and origin of government.
	www.friesian.com /ellis.htm (2939 words)

	Joseph F. Ellis, Jr.
		Ellis' vision in creating a consortium of CEOs and HR executives from the world's leading companies; people who share his vision of providing businesses with the means to manage the education and development of their employees, and to build the workforces that their business strategies require.
		Ellis' expertise in education, business, and technology, his commitment to lifelong learning has gained him the respect of many organizations and associations.
		Ellis began his quest to develop TEDS®, a robust, highly functional and stable Learning Management System (LMS) system.
	www.virginiaeconomicbridge.org /Organization/Corporate%20Information/Profiles/Board%20Of%20Directors/Board%20members%20pages/Joseph_Ellis.htm (417 words)

	Joseph A. Ellis Jr.
		Members of his family include his wife, Dorothy L. (Fulton) Ellis; sons, Joseph A. Ellis III of Laconia, N.H. and Robert W. Ellis of Andover; a daughter, Candace Ellis of Sandown, N.H.; a brother, Mark Ellis of Groton; a sister, Donna Conway and her husband, Cresto, of Wakefield; and one grandson.
		Joseph A. Ellis, Jr., 64, a longtime Andover resident formerly of Wakefield, died at home.
		Ellis was retired from Local 17 Sheet Metal Workers Union.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20030619/OB_002.html (156 words)

	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		Joseph Ellis was indicted for wilful and corrupt Perjury, in a Cause between Thomas Skip and Ralph Harwood.
		Joseph Ellis, deception : perjury, 29th June, 1743.
		The Perjury assigned, was, that Ellis swore Mr Harwood was denied to Mrs Paterson (a Creditor who came to enquire for him, and said, he owed her a great deal of Money) when he was at Home.
	www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_units/1740s/t17430629-64.html (170 words)

	The History Lesson of Joseph Ellis
		His disgraceful arrogance was matched by Mt. Holyoke president Joanne Creighton, who immediately announced her administration was standing by Ellis — a man, she said, of "great integrity, honesty and honor," even though he had admitted lying to the students in her charge.
		Ellis won the Pulitzer in April for "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," and the National Book Award for his previous book, "American Sphinx," a biography of Thomas Jefferson.
		There was something terribly sad about the revelation of Ellis' many falsehoods when the story broke in the Boston Globe last Monday — the conclusion to an extensive investigation (including an examination of Ellis' Army records) launched by a tip from an unidentified source after the Globe ran its interview with Ellis last year.
	www.mobylives.com /Joseph_Ellis.html (806 words)

	Joseph Ellis
		Ellis, 710 Fifth Avenue, received a telegram from the War Department this morning, informing them that their son, Private Joseph F. Ellis III, 20, had been killed in action on Leyte, Philippine Islands on October 25.
		Joseph F. Ellis, 710 Fifth Avenue, who was killed in action on Leyte, Philippine Islands on October 25, was graduated from Eau Claire High School in 1941.
		Ellis had on the death of their son in action came Friday night, when a man in Louisville, Ohio called to tell them that his son, John Edwards, had written home about the death of his friend, Private Ellis.
	www.memorial.ecasd.k12.wi.us /Departments/SociStud/Diz/Veterans/E/El/EllisJosephF/EllisJoseph.htm (436 words)

	Ancestors of Jerry Landers Joseph Ellis
		Joseph Ellis of Carver, by deed dated 19 Dec. 1793, now purchased of Joel4 Ellis [No. 65--his second cousin once removed], Catherine Briggs, Daniel Vaughan, Charity Winslow, Stephen Delano (& Lydia his wife), all of Rochester, and Ichabod Clapp of Barnard, Vt. various lots (ibid., vol.
		In December 1792 Joseph Ellis bought from his brother, Cornelius Ellis "of Middleborough," for £44, 2s, 6d., a lot in the 26 Men's Purchase, adjacent to still another lot which Joseph Ellis sold to Josiah Clark by deed of same date (ibid., p.
		Joseph married Hannah Shurtleff, daughter of Benjamin Shurtleff and Susannah Cushman, on 20 May 1773 in Plympton, Plymouth, MA.
	www.landersgen.com /landers/81/11941.htm (557 words)

	Joseph Ellis Vietnam War Wannabe
		If Joseph Ellis falsified his service record or wore decorations and insignia to which he is not entitled, he could be fined and imprisoned.
		July 3, 2001 Joseph Ellis: the Vietnam wannabe - opinion piece by Dan Ford.
		The handling of Joseph Ellis will reflect upon President Joanne Creighton, financial backers, students, and alumni.
	vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/history/400historians/JosephEllis/elliswannabe.htm (1538 words)

	The Irascible Professor-commentary of the day-8-19-01. Worrying about Professor Joseph Ellis and Myself.
		Lots of ink was spilled this summer after a Boston Globe reporter broke the news that Professor Joseph Ellis, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, had fudged the facts when teaching a course about the Vietnam War era at Mt. Holyoke College.
		Despite the "war stories" that Ellis generously sprinkled throughout his lectures, the truth of the matter, it turns out, was that he had never served in Vietnam, and that the insider anecdotes he peddled were so much hogwash.
		Ellis recounted on a regular basis his "Vietnam experiences" when he was teaching a course on the Vietnam War era.
	irascibleprofessor.com /comments-8-19-01.htm (1371 words)

	Columbia Journalism Review: last (we hope) Joseph Ellis column, The
		John Tierney's Big City column was a hilarious spoof, a fictitious letter to Ellis from his editor critiquing a fictitious Vietnam memoir.
		Ellis is the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who was caught fibbing about his past.
		Both Ellis and I live in Amherst, a long touchdown pass from each other, and he teaches at Mt. Holyoke College, in South Hadley, a mortar shot away.
	www.24hourscholar.com /p/articles/mi_qa3613/is_200109/ai_n8990209 (1124 words)

	Joseph Ellis,
		Joseph A. Zagame, The First Italian-American of Sicilian Origin to Receive the 2001 Ellis Island Medal of Honor
		The Man Who Would Not Be King.('His Excellency George Washington' by Joseph J. Ellis)(Critical Essay)
		Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency: George Washington.(Book Review)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0882229.html (282 words)

	Joseph Ellis: the Vietnam wannabe
		When the Boston Globe outed Professor Ellis, Mount Holyoke leaped to his defense: "Professor Joseph Ellis is one of the most respected scholars, writers and teachers in the nation," said prexy Joanne Creighton.
		But here's something even better: Joseph Ellis is not merely against the Vietnam War, but he served heroically in it!
		Where this really gets interesting is the fact that Ellis loaned his name and position to the theory that Thomas Jefferson was the father of some of the children of Sally Hemings, girlie slave.
	www.warbirdforum.com /ellis.htm (973 words)

	Joseph Ellis
		Joseph J Ellis informed Mount Holyoke College, a private university in Massachusetts, that he would no longer be teaching Vietnam and American Culture.
		Joseph J. Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who admitted this week that he misled his Mount Holyoke students into believing that he served in Vietnam when he actually did not.
		Ellis apologized for the Vietnam misrepresentations and ''other distortions'' about his personal life after the Globe disclosed on Monday that he had falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, an experience he also claimed led him to join the antiwar movement.
	www.pownetwork.org /phonies/phonies58.htm (6841 words)

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