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New Additions: Writing the Civil War and New Shelves at WigWags Books
My copy of Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand arrived this week. Thanks to Daniel Sauerwein, a fellow WordPress blogger over at Civil War History for the recommendation. Published by the g… more →
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Oprah Winfrey to deliver Commencement Speech at Harvard, on May 30, 2013
wrote 1 month ago: My friend shared a post on Oprah Winfrey going to give a commencement talk. “Oprah’s journey f … more →
This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Gilpin Faust
wrote 2 months ago: This Republic of Suffering is a strange book, at once bloody and bloodless. It describes, in numbing … more →
Oprah Winfrey to deliver Commencement Speech at Harvard, on May 30, 2013
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wrote 2 months ago: Oprah Winfrey will be the Principal Speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 362nd Commenceme … more →
Providing the Wrong Frame for Higher Education
wrote 5 months ago: Neera Tanden and Drew Gilpin Faust, Center for American Progress’ “Investing in the Futu … more →
118. Realizing
wrote 6 months ago: Chalmette National Cemetery, USCT Tree One evening last week, as I was reading Khaled Hosseini’s nov … more →
New Harlem Manuscript Found Written By Claude McKay
wrote 8 months ago: A new novel by Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay, titled “Amiable With Big Teeth: A Nove … more →
Review: American Experience presents... "Death and the Civil War"
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wrote 8 months ago: As one who often takes strolls among the graves of Civil War dead (and as one who is a regular follo … more →
Revealed: Harvard cheating scandal which could see over 100 students thrown out of elite college was discovered because of a TYPO
wrote 8 months ago: By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED:18:42 EST, 14 September 2012| UPDATED:18:42 EST, 14 September 2012 The Harvar … more →
Review of Death and the Civil War
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wrote 8 months ago: I would like to take this opportunity to remind you all that American Experience on PBS will be airi … more →
Big Questions, Big Doubts from Very Big People
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wrote 8 months ago: Big Questions, Big Doubts from Very Big People English: George Whitesides (Harvard University … more →
The Worldʻs 100 Most Powerful Women (according to Forbes)
wrote 8 months ago: “For nine years FORBES has ranked the 100 most powerful women in the world. These are the wome … more →
Harvard University probes plagiarism outbreak involving 125 students
wrote 8 months ago: Half the students in Ivy League college’s Introduction to Congress class may have copied each … more →
'I Know That Your Poor Heart Trembles': An Irish Mother Receives Word of Her Wounded Son, 1861
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wrote 9 months ago: For the families of soldiers in the American Civil War, the possibility that their loved ones might … more →
HARVARD RATED #1 PARTY SCHOOL
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wrote 9 months ago: Princeton Review’s 2012 list of best party schools is out. Harvard is #1 – again! Princ … more →
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Presents Death and the Civil War
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wrote 10 months ago: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Presents Death and the Civil War Premieres Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:00 p.m. … more →
Sunset on Juneteenth, 2012
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wrote 11 months ago: Such a day, then and now. For you all outside of the United States (hello, Denmark) you may not know … more →
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents: An interview with Carolyn Cooke By Nancy Au
wrote 11 months ago: Carolyn Cooke’s Daughters of the Revolution was listed among the best novels of 2011 by the San Fran … more →
Harvard Law School Doo You Really
wrote 1 year ago: condone having a professor who has the ethics of a snake?I know there is a big hoopla over an old Pr … more →
Still Batshit Crazy After All These Years: A Reply to Ta-Nehisi Coates
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wrote 1 year ago: Jumping off from Mark Lilla’s negative review of my book in the New York Review of Books—about … more →
