Chronicle of Higher Education Article on Serenity Prayer

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Fred's article is wonderful. It contains fascinating new results about
the provenance of the Serenity Prayer and insightful commentary about
the ongoing tectonic shifts in research methodologies for historical
inquiry.

The results obtained by searching large scale databases of documents
can upend traditional historical narratives, e.g., the account that
the Serenity Prayer was composed for a 1943 church service.

Congratulations to Fred and The Chronicle Review for publishing this
important article.

Garson

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Poster:       "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
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> Some on this list may remember my publicity in 2008-2009 concerning the que=
> stion of whether Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the "Serenity Prayer."  I have now =
> found new information that seems very strongly to point to Niebuhr as the o=
> riginator.  I wrote an article about the new findings in the Chronicle of H=
> igher Education.  ADS-L's own Stephen Goranson, who was the first to bring =
> forth a very early attribution to Niebuhr, is mentioned.
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> http://chronicle.com/article/Who-Wrote-the-Serenity-Prayer-/146159/
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> The Huffington Post has just picked up the story.  Ben Zimmer has also writ=
> ten about it in Visual Thesaurus.
>
> Fred
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