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Robert Van Norden Hine Jr. (26 April 1921, Los Angeles – 27 March 2015, Irvine, California) was a memoirist, historical novelist, and history professor, who wrote a number of books. He is perhaps most famous for his 1993 memoir Second Sight, which recounts his experience of becoming totally blind at age 50 and then partially recovering his sight 15 years later with the benefit of a high-risk operation. Upon his death in 2015 he was survived by a daughter and a grandson.

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rdfs:comment	Robert Van Norden Hine Jr. (26 April 1921, Los Angeles – 27 March 2015, Irvine, California) was a memoirist, historical novelist, and history professor, who wrote a number of books. He is perhaps most famous for his 1993 memoir Second Sight, which recounts his experience of becoming totally blind at age 50 and then partially recovering his sight 15 years later with the benefit of a high-risk operation. Upon his death in 2015 he was survived by a daughter and a grandson. (en)
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has abstract	Robert Van Norden Hine Jr. (26 April 1921, Los Angeles – 27 March 2015, Irvine, California) was a memoirist, historical novelist, and history professor, who wrote a number of books. He is perhaps most famous for his 1993 memoir Second Sight, which recounts his experience of becoming totally blind at age 50 and then partially recovering his sight 15 years later with the benefit of a high-risk operation. He grew up in Beverly Hills, where his father was a real estate developer. When he was in high school, Robert V. Hine developed severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He was hospitalized for six weeks to undergo intensive therapy, but managed to graduate on schedule from high school. He started college at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but withdrew after he began to have hemorrhages in both eyes. The hemorrhages were a result of uveitis caused by his rheumatoid arthritis. As he grew older, the uveitis made removal of his cataracts too risky. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1948 from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in history in 1952 from Yale University. In 1949, as a graduate student, he married Shirley McChord (1920–1996), whom he had met when they were students at UCLA. As his eyesight deteriorated she became his reader and research assistant. After graduating from Yale he published in 1953 his first book and spent a year as a fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. From 1954 to 1990 he was a faculty member of the history department of the University of California, Riverside. There he was the chair of the department from 1962 to 1967. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic years 1957–1958 and 1967–1968. For fifteen years, from 1970 to 1986, he was totally blind, but actively continued his teaching and research, and on the restoration of his sight through surgery, he wrote Second Sight, a first-hand account of his journey through blindness. Hine put lecture notes in Braille on index cards he kept in his pocket and was so adept at fingering them that many students believed he had memorized his talks. For his large lecture classes he made a seating chart in Braille that allowed him to call on individual students by name, as long as they sat in their assigned seats. He also kept his classes lively with a multimedia approach that was novel for the time. A friend with dramatic flair recorded quotations from Jedediah Smith, Black Elk and other historical figures that Hine combined with slides and music for a Ken Burns-like documentary approach to history. Hine was so skillful at assembling the presentations that a colleague dubbed him the “Cecil B. DeMille of our department.” Upon his death in 2015 he was survived by a daughter and a grandson. (en)
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