House Historian Ousted Over Remarks as E.D. Reviewer

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich fired his choice for historian of the House last week after learning of controversial comments she made as a consultant to the Education Department in 1986.

Mr. Gingrich dismissed Christina Jeffrey amid press reports noting that she had said that a junior high school curriculum on the Holocaust gave "no evidence of balance or objectivity" because it omitted the views of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

Ms. Jeffrey, an acquaintance and supporter of the Georgia Republican, had taken leave as an assistant professor at Kennesaw State College in Marietta, Ga., to...