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Larry E. Tise, Ph.D., Historian
February 9, 2022
I grew up in Winston Salem and studied history almost from youthhood. I went to Duke and Duke Divinity School. Then I got my PhD from Chapel Hill. My dissertation was on the subject of "proslavery" or people who defended slavery before the Civil War.
My dissertation was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1987 It was sharply but generously reviewed in the Times of London book review section by one Richard Dunn. He was very precise in his lengthy review. I was grateful for the notoriety. When I moved to Pennsylvania in 1981 and became Pennsylvania's State Historian in Harrisburg, and met almost immediately Richard and Mary Maples Dunn. They were editing the papers of William Penn for publication and I was planning the tricentennial of the Pennsylvania Charter. They were charming and very warm to me, beginning a long period of friendship from 1981 until their deaths a few years apart. Mary was the mover and shaker and most frequent voice of the two. Richard was also an empire builder, but he went about it quietly and deliberately. Both were consummate scholars and states people of history. When I moved to Philadelphia in 1989, Richard brought me into the warm embrace of what became the McNeil Center for Early American Studies--his single-minded monument. I'm still a member and beneficiary of that important institution. While Richard and Mary were co-executive officers of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, they also assisted in supported some of my history activities and projects with enthusiasm and wise counsel. I can't image two more generous and important individuals and partners in the realm of American history in the last decades of the 20th century and early years of the 21st century. My life has been and will continue to be enriched by having known them. So strange that they should end their rich careers and lives in the city of my birth.
Casey, Mark, & Paula
February 7, 2022
We'll always treasure our times with you, Richard-the mini-lessons on history, art, music, and life in general are things Casey will never forget. Thank you for accepting us into your family circle.
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