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« Remapping your brain | Main | Misquotes, etc. » Friday, October 27, 2006Revelations about ApthekerHerbert Aptheker, a noted scholar of slave rebellions who died in 2003, at 87, was famous not just for his books -- and his editing of the W.E.B. DuBois papers -- but for his obdurate support of the Communist Party. Now his daughter, the feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker, adds a dark new twist to his legacy by charging that he molested her from age 3 to 13. (More here.) At the History News Network, historians are weighing what it all means -- and whether any skepticism is in order, given that Bettina Aptheker says her memories "erupted" in the 1990s, having been lost for decades. PS [added 6:40 p.m., 10/27] There was a glitch with that last link. It's fixed. Posted by Christopher Shea at 04:11 PM
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