Articles with keyword "twentieth century"
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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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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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A Prison Debate
Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best.
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The Well-Wrought Textbook
The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.
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1912 Presidential Candidates
Cartoonist Clifford Berryman mocks the confidence level of the 1912 presidential candidates—Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft—before the election.
