How is citing one book for a fact in one sentence "basing one's reputation" on anything? If you're concerned about this, see if Meyers cited the right page and if the Hastings got their facts right. But really your quibble has nothing at all to do with what we were discussing.
..."the book bears many of the marks of a rush job and does not meet the publisher's usual high standards.
It helps if you quote the complete sentence:
The research, thesis, and conclusions of A Pitiless Rain are persuasive, but the book bears many of the marks of a rush job and does not meet the publisher's usual high standards.
Chesson's complaining about the kind of technical errors amateur historians make, but he's not attacking the book or its conclusions.
I guess you're still ticked off about that wretched DiLorenzo. Maybe Walter Williams too. But really, if writing what they've written hasn't destroyed their careers there's no reason for Meyers or the Hastings to fear for anything they've written either.
Setting up a strawman, there x? You know that is not the point.
I know nothing of the kind. Your quiz was set up to establish that Northerners were hypocritical or dishonest about slavery. Here you have an institution, Brown University, that is honest and upfront about the role of slaves, slave owners, and slave traders in its history and you try to single it out as worse than other institutions that haven't been as concerned or as diligent in researching the role of slavery in their own past.
Brown's really gone out in front on this. And they had existing records that indicated the role of slavery. The Wren Building, the oldest building at the College of William and Mary, was destroyed by fire at least three times. Perhaps the records haven't survived. Perhaps their record keepers didn't bother to name the slaves who worked on their buildings since payment went to the masters. We don't even know if Christopher Wren actually designed the building that has been named after him. So there's a lot to discover.
William and Mary hasn't investigated the question of slavery to anything like the degree that Brown has. Go back to an 1874 history of the college. It doesn't even mention slavery. Maybe there really were no slaves involved in building CWM's structures, but I'll wait until they've looked into this at least as deeply as Brown has.
And what about those links I posted to information about UVA and UNC?
I have provided you documentation that the primary source of your assertion about the College of William and Mary was found to be discredited.
Instead of looking into that, you spend a couple of days posting all over the place to cover your error.
There is nothing more to be said. You really ought to check into your assumptions, and if proved wrong, just admit it.