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That means not only that Americans have to be better than the rest of the world at inventing things but also that we have to be better at the basic research that precedes invention. Back in the 19th and early 20th centuries, people like Edison, Morse and the Wright brothers proved that Americans were pretty good at creating useful technology. But all of it was based on fundamental science done in places like Britain, Germany and France, where the true intellectual action...
...COLONY JOHN TAYMAN For more than 100 years, well into the 20th century, Hawaii had a policy of involuntarily and permanently exiling anybody who had leprosy to a tiny peninsula on the island of Molokai, walled off from civilization by the world's tallest sea cliff. The Colony is the story of the tiny, tortured community the lepers created, fighting prejudice, starvation, the elements, one another and their disease--which, we now know, was never particularly contagious...
...history of the court in the 20th century is replete with instances of high-stakes cases decided by 5-4 margins. Perhaps the most infamous example is the 1905 case Lochner v. New York, in which a five-justice majority struck down a New York State law capping the number of hours that bakers could work. More than three decades later, when the Supreme Court nullified part of the New Deal legislation in the 1936 case of United States v. Butler, it did so on a 5-4 vote as well. Many of Rehnquist Court’s rulings that...
...when the Holy Shroud, the white sheet that many Catholic faithful believe wrapped Jesus after his crucifixion, fetched up in the Duomo di San Giovanni Battista. The city was reborn as the first capital of a united Italy in 1861 - though the capital soon shifted to Rome. During the 20th century, Torino was Detroit on the Po, the home of auto giant Fiat. The company brought modern production methods to Mussolini's Italy and after World War II helped fuel a flourishing middle class with its cheap and stylish small cars. Today, the city is known chiefly among sports fans...
This spring Ulrich will teach the Core course Historical Study B-41, “Inventing New England: History, Memory, and the Creation of a Regional Identity,” and she said in an interview that “the early 20th century was very much about looking back to the colonial times...