Articles with keyword "history"
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German American Heritage Center
The zither, commonly found in southern Germany and other parts of alpine Europe, produces the “oompahs” so typical of German folk music.
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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
Stan Hywet (stone quarry in Old English) was built between 1912 and 1915 near Akron, OH, by cofounder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company F. A. Seiberling.
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Revolt of the Masses
From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.
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Good Stable Manners
In Ancient Rome and Modern America, NEH-funded scholar Margaret Malamud looks at the ways visions of the imperial city have been incorporated into everything from the Constitution to Caes
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Wild Time in the Poconos
From The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume I, May 1832–April 1833, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, in which the aristocratic naturalist and
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The Public Historian
How Jill Lepore went from Harvard office temp to Harvard professor.
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Capital Gains
Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C.,
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Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
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Impertinent Questions with William M. Reddy
William M. Reddy has made a career of demonstrating how honor, love, shame, fear, and desire operate as historical forces.