Friday quiz: the eminent historians | Michael Tomasky

As a young man, I briefly toyed with the notion that I might get myself a nice Ph.D. in history. I was a fairly unaggressive student as an undergraduate, but the one category of classes I really did enjoy, in which I actually even tended to do the reading, was history. My first class on the French Revolution opened my eyes and set my mind ablaze, and I will always remember fondly my professor, Dennis O'Brien. An extremely witty man, gay though not exactly open about it (though also not...