Yesterday I lost a dear friend and the academic world lost one of its most gifted scholars and teachers: Eugene Genovese, the great historian of slavery and the American South. Although born into a Catholic family, Gene was for most of his adult life a Marxist. Under the influence of his beloved wife Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, an eminent historian in her own right and a late-in-life convert to the Catholic faith, he eventually returned to the Church. But even in his Marxist days, he was driven by a passion for truth—and it was that passion that eventually brought him out of the errors into which he had been led by a passion for justice. I tell a bit of the story in the above video of a tribute to Gene I gave at a conference at Princeton held in his honor a couple of years ago.
Thursday, September 27, 2012, 12:01 PM
September 27th, 2012 | 1:37 pm
May he and his wife rest in peace.
September 27th, 2012 | 8:02 pm
An extraordinary tribute. I have no doubt that Prof. Genovese did pay a high price for his integrity. It’s why such men and women are rare in the American university.
Requiescat in pacem indeed.
September 28th, 2012 | 10:01 am
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September 28th, 2012 | 10:51 am
Although I did not know the Genoveses, Elizabeth Genovese taught at my alma mater, Emory University, where she had a reputation for bold truth-telling. This led her to writing her book on the importance of traditional marriage: “Marriage: The Dream that Refuses to Die.”
The accounts I have read indicate they had a very loving marriage, and I am sure that Eugene grieved greatly over his wife’s premature passing. Now they are reunited in the presence of the Author of truth. May God bless them both.
September 29th, 2012 | 10:51 am
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