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Consider the historical novels of James Michener, Gore Vidal and Hermann Wouk, or films such as Glory, about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, and Oliver Stone's JFK. All of these works carry political messages, as do many academic works of history. But these messages are intimately bound to their historical vehicle. Glory, for example, could only work with its Civil War setting. Likewise, JFK, as outlandish as its interpretation of the Kennedy assassination may be, nevertheless attempts to participate in the historical dialogue and inquiry, through an unorthodox, non-academic medium...
However, in the 54th minute, Brown closed the margin to one on a goal by Libby Lyons. But that would be as close as the Bears would come to spoiling Harvard's Ivy League Championship hopes...
That same evening--the Speaker's 54th birthday, as it happened--about 35 Republicans, largely drawn from the Gingrich- inspired Class of '94, met in Armey's suite, ostensibly to talk about upcoming legislation. But their session opened instead with outbursts against Gingrich, some even asserting that it was time to dump him. For the first time, a participant recalled, Gingrich's fellow Republicans were saying they no longer could trust...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...
...enough of trail tours? The Black Heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common. This monument honors the first regiment of Black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil War, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's portrayal, "Glory...