No matter how Hollywood might rewrite it, history isn’t typically thought of as subjective. History professor Laurie Eisenberg is out to prove otherwise. One of her courses focuses on discrepancies in documentation of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War by pitting the class’s textbook, Michael Oren’s Six Days of War—which many regard as a definitive study of the war—against articles from 1967 newspapers such as Lebanon’s The Daily-Star and The Egyptian Gazette and other primary sources. For her unique approach, the Center for Research Libraries awarded Eisenberg the 2011 Primary Source Teaching Award.
—Nicholas Ducassi (A’10)