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Bailyn's historical work centers on early American history, the American Revolution and the Anglo-American world in the pre-industrial era. Bailyn has devoted more than 40 years to teaching and studying American history at Harvard. Along the way, he has authored 11 books, two of which have won the Pulitzer Prize...
...were people of the Word, not the Image. Truth lived in the Word, but the Image could betray and deceive. Hence, no religious art. There would be religious folk art--of a muted kind. But it is practically impossible to find the face of God the Father anywhere in Anglo-American painting or sculpture before 1900. So the American tendency was for transcendental urges to appear in nondoctrinal ways, linked not to iconography or biblical narrative but to individual visions--which were, of course, often steeped in religious imagery...
Price's landmark study The Negro and Southern Politics gained widespread recognition upon publication in 1957. His other acclaimed work, The Rise and Decline in Anglo-American Experience, was published...
...have the standing to question the jury's decision in the Simpson murder trial. We in the public had access to much more information than did the jury, which heard only that evidence the attorneys chose to present and the judge ruled admissible. Under our wonderful Constitution and the Anglo-American law's presumption of innocence until guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the State of California was ruled not to have carried its burden of proof. I for one am happy to live in a country where the rule of law governs and not the rule...
...deciding what to admit, Judge Ito will have to perform a particularly fine legal operation. A centuries-old rule of Anglo-American common law holds that jurors should not be told of a defendant's past behavior that is considered too inflammatory for a jury to handle. In all states past crimes are inadmissable as evidence to show that the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime. Thus the judge in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial refused to allow testimony from three young women who each claimed that Smith had assaulted them under similar circumstances. "We fear that...