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...Bush's invitation, the 44th Commander in Chief is paying a long-planned visit to the home of Bush's presidential library to mark the 20th anniversary of the voluntarism initiative begun by the former President in 1989. (See TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...
...original version of the Oct. 13 news article "Harvard College Library, China Form Pact" incorrectly stated that China's Qing Dynasty stretched from 1644 to 1795. In fact, some of the Qing Dynasty books to be digitized were from that period, but the Dynasty itself lasted until the early 20th century...
...Roger Fenton toted his tripod and glass-plate negatives to the scenes of the Crimean War. A few years later, Matthew Brady and his team made their unprecedented record of battlefield deaths and civilian devastation in the Civil War. For most of us, our memories of war in the 20th century are from an image bank of photographs, from D-day to Korea and Vietnam--pictures that not only recorded those wars but also informed the way people felt about them...
Moses and Superman With the rise of secularism and the declining influence of the Bible in the 20th century, Moses might have melted away as a role model. But something curious happened. He was so identified as a hero of the American Dream that he superseded Scripture and entered the realm of popular culture, from novels to television...
Most people have heard, in some form or another, the famous “Stars and Stripes Forever” march by John Philip Sousa, with its crisp trumpet lines, sonorous bass undertones, and delicate flute ornamentation. The piece is rightly a classic of 20th-century wind band literature. Yet despite its popularity, mere mention of the word “wind ensemble” often elicits either blank indifference or vague recollection of a long-dropped middle- school activity. This is unfortunate—for though it tends to be overlooked, the wind ensemble offers an artistic experience...