Talk:George Athan Billias

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Having held a named chair at Clark University makes Billias notable. This article could still use a lot of work though.Johnpacklambert (talk) 20:16, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He apparently never actually held a chair as the title mentioned in the article was for professor, not chair, plus it was emeritus, not an active position. The citations in the article are mostly from his own books or bookseller listings. I did an internet search and couldn't find anything of substance on him. I tagged the article with a notability tag. Sparkie82 (t•c) 17:31, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Added reference verifying that he was holding the named chair prior to his retirement and updated the text accordingly.Ouikey (talk) 20:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Google Scholar gives over 1000 citations in the scholarly literature to Billias--that is a lot and is a very impressive demonstration of his prominence. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=1%2C27&q=George+Athan+Billias&btnG= He has a very good reputation as this reviewer notes: Prof. George Billias, Jacob and Frances Hiatt Professor Emeritus at Clark University, has been studying America's Colonial and Revolutionary eras for more than 60 years, and has produced a steady stream of books, articles and monographs. Now into his 90s, he has just published his magnum opus. The "Jacob and Frances Hiatt" is an endowed "chair" for a professor and is high prestige appointment. The book quoted here won the high-prestige James P. Hanlan Book Award from the New England Historical Association in 2011. --a committee of historians selected it as the best book published by a historian from New England in 2010 (thereby beating out all the historians from Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, Yale, Amherst, Boston U, etc etc.). The reviews have been very strong: ". His book is a masterpiece of historical scholarship. " says Tulsa Law Review. Rjensen (talk) 03:44, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]