More Plagiarizing Historians

The Chronicle of Higher Education has this interesting piece on prolific and influential Marxist historian Philip Foner. Here's a snippet:

The question remains: Why did his colleagues put up with it [plagiarism]?

Younger labor historians in the 1970s and '80s "tended to be people with left sympathies, who felt the man had suffered enough," says Mr. Dubofsky. "So even the people whose work he had borrowed from freely did not want to say anything."

[Link courtesy Arts & Letters Daily]

A few months back in Reason, historian Joyce Malcolm looked at the recent rash of improper behavior among academics, especially gun scholar Michael Bellesiles. Her story is here.