{"id":1820,"date":"2013-05-02T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2013-05-02T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:37:19","slug":"ruler-of-history-gerald-kadish-retiring-after-50-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/05\/02\/ruler-of-history-gerald-kadish-retiring-after-50-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruler of history: Gerald Kadish retiring after 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1821\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/05\/kadish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1821\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/05\/kadish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Kadish leaves Binghamton University in May after 50 years of teaching history. Photograph by Jonathan Cohen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After History Professor Gerald Kadish teaches his final class, Assessing the Tokugawa Era, on May 10, he will throw away the last of his notes and shred five decades\u2019 worth of grade sheets, one for every student he has ever taught. After Commencement, he\u2019ll decide what to do with the academic robes that his mother bought him. And there will be all those books to move. Books about ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and Japan. Books that can be measured in square yards and tons.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to imagine that if his sixth-floor office were any higher, the Library Tower might tilt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe sits behind his desk, with mounds of books and all sorts of Egyptological paraphernalia spread about the room, and you sometimes feel like you\u2019re talking to a sympathetic colleague and other times you feel like you\u2019re talking to the high priest of Ma\u2019at,\u201d says Andrew Scholtz, associate professor and chair of the Classical and Near Eastern Studies Department.<\/p>\n<p>Ma\u2019at is the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, law, morality and justice, personified as a goddess who wears a single feather on her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s fond of wearing a Ma\u2019at feather pin,\u201d Scholtz says.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/magazine\/index.php\/magazine\/feature\/ruler-of-history\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After History Professor Gerald Kadish teaches his final class, Assessing the Tokugawa Era, on May 10, he will throw away the last of his notes and shred five decades\u2019 worth of grade sheets, one for every student he has ever taught. After Commencement, he\u2019ll decide what to do with the academic robes that his mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-university-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}