Christoph Irmscher, the author of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), is Provost Professor of English and director of the Wells Scholars Program at Indiana University in Bloomington.
This patriarch of American science was an enemy of Darwin.
2016 Summer
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
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Done with Tolstoy
Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
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The Blue Humanities
In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings.
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