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Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Imperial Scrolls of China For those not well-versed in the reigns of Kangxi and Qianlong, a new website provides a trove of information about their rule, the economy, and the artistic life of the Qing dynasty.   |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
James Williford |
Cowhunting in Florida Hank Mattson will perform his poetry and discuss the history of Florida cowhunting on December 3, at the Emerson Center in Vero Beach. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Laura Wolff Scanlan |
Hollywood Used to Be Called Jacksonville Jacksonville, Florida, was the first motion picture capital of the United States, producing approximately three hundred films between 1909 and 1926. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Laura Wolff Scanlan |
Thanks to Mrs. Hale More than two hundred years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire native Sarah Josepha Hale lobbied governors, congressmen, and presidents to have Thanksgiving declared a national holiday. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
James Williford |
Miami Rights On February 12, 1958, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a packed house at the Greater Bethel AME Church in Miami. |
Humanities
Nov/Dec 2009
Laura Wolff Scanlan |
Big Circus in a Little Town With the arrival of the railroad and the marketing prowess of impresario P. T. Barnum, circuses became the most popular form of public entertainment, performing in small towns across the country. |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Aaron Levin |
Where Past Meets Future Winston Anderson filled his garage with objects and documents tracing the history of African slaves and their American descendants. Now anyone can see his collection at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum and African Art Gallery |
Popular Mechanics
November 2, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
3 Cool Things About the World War II Museum's New Movie Pop-out hardware... Historical hyper-accuracy... Special effects delivered to your seat... |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Marion Asnes |
Bookshelf In The History of Financial Planning, Brandon and Welch describe planning as a pursuit that rapidly evolved into an intellectual and business discipline full of vitality and idealism. |
ifeminists
October 30, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
An overview of the abortion issue The debate over abortion is polarized, with the most vocal advocates for and against tending to assume extreme positions in the belief that they are enunciating a principle that allows for no compromise. |
TIME Europe
November 2, 2009
Lev Grossman |
How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster The first comprehensive history of D-day in two decades sheds new light on the cost of an immortal victory. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009 |
Curio New research from scholars on the English Renaissance, Massachusetts history, German-Americans, and impressions of Moscow, Idaho. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Amy Lifson |
California's Clan A new film chronicling four generations of the Chandler family newspaper dynasty in Southern California will be broadcast on PBS, October 5 at 9 p.m. Inventing LA airs as a prime time special |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Who Said It: Violins of Autumn In this edition of Who Said It?, we harvest literature and history to reap the ways the season serves as marker and metaphor for the passage of time. Here's a quiz to test your knowledge. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009 |
A Conversation with Jill Lepore Lepore describes how she became the person she is today: a well-known scholar of early American history, a winner of the Bancroft Prize and the author of several distinguished books. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Michael Adams |
What Samuel Johnson Really Did He made dictionaries matter. Samuel Johnson, poet, satirist, critic, lexicographer, and dyed-in-the-wool conservative was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, on September 18, 1709. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Meredith Hindley |
Supremely Contentious: the Transformation of "Advice and Consent" In the aftermath of the Senate hearings to consider the president's nominee to become the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, it's hard to remember that the process wasn't always like this. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
David C. Engerman |
The Cold War's Organization Man How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate American policy |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
Carl Smith |
Taming the Savage City An obscure frontier outpost in the early 1830s, Chicago grew to 4,470 residents by 1840. A mere fifty years later, it was America's second city, with a population of 1,099,850. By 1909, the count was two million. |
Humanities
Sep/Oct 2009
James Williford |
Peter Cooper's Big Ideas Born in 1791 to a poor family in New York City, Cooper went on to become one of the important shapers of what might be called American modernity and the founder of the Cooper Union |
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