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...build on that in a more permanent way.” According to History of Art and Architecture Professor Henri Zerner, Roberts is part of a new generation of younger scholars interested in studying American art with the same kind of investigative intensity and contextualization as those experts in better-entrenched areas of art history. “Harvard was very late to the study of American art, and I think it’s an exciting moment for the field to have Harvard go from having zero tenured faculty in the field to having two,” said...
...Peter K. Bol, who teaches a course with Szonyi at the College. Szonyi is currently studying the social history of the Ming Dynasty military. He has traced local cults from the Ming Dynasty and has found that some of these cults continue to exist. Their traditions can help historians better understand the role of religion in establishing local social orders, Szonyi said. But Szonyi said his interests do not lie exclusively with the fourteenth century Ming Dynasty. He is also currently investigating Chinese social history during the Cold War. “It is unusual to move across time periods...
...think the more time we can give people to deal with it, the better that’s going to be,” he said...
...sadly remember the long-gone days of touch football on the White House lawn or the youthful idealism that helped put a man on the moon. But the influence of the Kennedy brothers on Washington continues to be felt, and their brand of politics, focusing on hope for a better world and a strong commitment to public service and bipartisanship, has inspired modern-day politicians, including Obama...
...burning utilities. The coal industry must be pressured by the public and elected officials into becoming as “clean” as it can be. Despite what the industry may publicly proclaim, there is no such thing as clean coal, at least not yet. Nobody knows this better than the people of Kingston, Tennessee...