Articles with keyword "books"
Conversation
Historian for Hire
Phil Cantelon of History Associates talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the profession outside the walls of academia.
Feature
The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle
A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.
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British Modernism’s Many Manners
The Bloomsbury group broke ties with Victorian ideals and reimagined British art.
Ednote
Editor's Note, July/August 2009
I have become a regular purchaser of old books, and as I pull these worn-out tomes from my mailbox I wonder if anyone else is still reading these particular works.
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What IF?
The book gives way to the download, and solitary reading transforms into virtual conversations.
Conversation
Searching for Truth: From Genesis to Genotype
Jefferson Lecturer Leon Kass describes his journey from medical school to the heart of the humanities.
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Darwin the Young Adventurer
The budding naturalist avoids life as a minister and finds himself aboard the Beagle.
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Ain’t That the Truth
Webster's Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the English Language.
Curio
Go West, Young Trickster
From Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West, wherein Duke research professor in Canadian studies Arnold E.
Curio
Simple Things
Oregon Humanities magazine’s summer ’09 issue provokes much thought on the matter of things, possessions, or, as the editors call it, “stuff.” The issue is stuffed with stuff on stuff, includ