Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander Wolcott once described him as "the Babe Ruth of history." Morison's numerous academic honors justify this description. He has been awarded honorary degrees by nine colleges and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale, and he has served as president of the American Historical Association and of the...
Morison now teaches History 160 on American colonial history and History 260, a seminar on American history.
One of Edward Gilbert's settings, his conception of a Pentagon mogul's office, seems rather more prosaic than it might have been, but on the whole the decors are elaborate and clever. There is, in fact, very little about The Solid Gold Cadillac that is not highly enjoyable, and...
The British Colonial Office, eager to unite the West Indies into an economically sound federation, hoped that the Princess' visit would strengthen the West Indian loyalty to the crown. The royal family undoubtedly hoped that the trip might have some of the same effect, so to speak, on Margaret...
"No amount of American aid can guarantee the freedom of Viet Nam," said U.S. Presidential Envoy Joseph Lawton Collins last month, "unless the Vietnamese are determined to be free." Last week General Collins flew back to Washington bearing news of considerable Vietnamese determination. "Things are looking up in South Viet...