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With the Russians, nothing comes without its price. In this case, the price was the inclusion of 13 Russian paintings from Leningrad's State Russian Museum. They are something of a revelation. Alexander Ivanov's Water and Rocks Near Palazzuola, painted in the early 1850s, is a strongly constructed landscape that Courbet could have admired...
During the 1850s Anthony mct Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her life-long friend and collaborator. Stanton had the intellectual ability to conceptualize and develop ideas, but she had little speaking presence or organizational talent. Anthony's gift was as a speaker and master strategist of the movement. Together they founded countless women's rights and suffrage associations, organized annual conventions, campaigned tirelessly from Massachusetts to the Western territories, and co-edited the first three volumes of the extensive History of Woman Suffrage...
ANTHONY'S ENERGY and commitment was boundless. During the 1850s she spent three years traversing New York State (her home state), collecting signatures for petitions demanding woman's suffrage and the passage of the Married Woman's Bill. She charged from town to town, organizing town conventions and meetings, many of which were repressed by the machinations of the local government, and sometimes physically disrupted by town thugs...
Unlike Nevins and Catton, Foote devotes little space to the political context of the war-the angry riptides of the 1850s, the drift into disaster. His attention is focused on the righting itself -fortifications, tactics, the strange chemistries of leadership, the workings in the generals' minds. Among other things, Foote moves armies and great quantities of military information with a lively efficiency. This volume covers the final year of the war, from the campaigns in western Louisiana and Arkansas to the terrible endgame in the East, with Grant clamping down on Petersburg and Richmond and Sherman burning...
...accept film as a primary source for history? Film, like literature, is a cultural artifact, and historians have long recognized the value of studying literature. They feel free to apply literature to purposes of historical preservation rarely contemplated by the original authors. Historians read popular American literature of the 1850s to learn about that era's social values and aspirations, and they read 19th century English novels to learn about 19th century English society. This literature is interpreted as subjective material--it has an historical validity despite its lack of straightforward objectivity. Nobody claims, for example, that London was exactly...