Noted historiographer and professor at Western Michigan University Ernst A. Breisach (1923-2016) first came to the United States in 1951–52 on a Fulbright scholarship to study the American higher education system. Read more about his life and scholarship in his obituary by Wilson J. Warren and Shirley A. Ort in the May 2017 issue of "Perspectives on History: the Newsletter of the American Historical Society.