NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera). The two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.

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1998); "U.S. History as Women’s History" (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); "Women and Power in American History" (2 vols., Prentice Hall, 1991), "The Social Survey Movement in ...