LifeTimeline
Elizabeth Eisenstein
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Elizabeth Becomes Chairwoman of the History Department at University of Michigan
In 1975, Elizabeth's youngest son was starting college, and she took the position at University of Michigan, commuting from DC to Ann Arbor on the weekends until 1988, when she retired as a professor emerita. During this period, Elizabeth and her husband spent most of their summers in East Hampton. -
"The Printing Press as an Agent of Change" is Published
A two-volume masterwork about the cultural impact of the printing press. Eisenstein commented that the printing press was a "communications revolution," enabling books and pamphlets to be created en masse, inexpensively, enabling information and ideas to spread more quickly than anytime in history. -
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"The Assassin"
Elizabeth was featured on the cover of Washington City Paper with the headline, "The Assassin." She was 82 years and stood 5'2" tall. The writer, Huan Hsu wrote that she was said to move "like a kid": "She makes her opponent work so hard and hit so many extra shots that all the body blows eventually catch up to her." Elizabeth got more accolades for her tennis than for her scholarly work. -
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