Posted: Jun 11th, 2008 | Comments: 0
The Impact of Listening and Being Heard
For some veterans it takes years before they choose to speak about their war experiences. And some veterans never do. What happens when veterans finally share their stories? How does ...
The development of the “underclass” in American life and the simultaneous beginnings of what we now call pop culture both date back to the Lower East Side of nearly two ...
Posted: Jun 5th, 2008 | Comments: 17
The late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the great scholar of the New Deal, liked to talk about how the best historians know that history is "an argument without end." Now ...
Posted: May 27th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Orientalism: The Roots of Modernism
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even ...
Posted: May 8th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Gandhi's legacy and the Satya Graha movement have proved potent inspiration not only for the freedom movement in India, but elsewhere in the world including the American Civil Rights movement ...
Posted: Apr 23rd, 2008 | Comments: 0
Richard Price — writer for HBO’s The Wire and the author of The Wanderers, The Color of Money, and Clockers — turns to the subject of crime in the ...
Posted: Apr 15th, 2008 | Comments: 0
Alexander Hamilton and the National Triumph of New York City
New York City is the source for the quintessentially American traits of capitalism, ethnic tolerance, free speech, and reliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Yet the New York legacy generally goes ...
Posted: Apr 10th, 2008 | Comments: 20
New York Brownstones: Icons of a Great City
Charles Lockwood, author of the indispensable Bricks and Brownstone was described by The New Yorker as the "consummate authority" on this iconic building type. His recent research has ...
Posted: Oct 16th, 2007 | Comments: 0
