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Reconstruction has been completely reinterpreted. Where Muzzey and many others castigated the "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers," a new edition of a bestselling history, the Lewis Paul Todd and Merle Curti Rise of the American Nation, speaks primly of "Radical Republicans" who were "influenced by a sincere feeling of obligation to the freed slaves." A few post-Viet Nam texts note the use of torture by U.S. soldiers in the Philippines in 1899, a subject never mentioned before...
...CARLO CURTI Beverly Hills, Calif...
...idea of social history in the universities, not only through his teaching at Harvard but also through his students at other institutions." His former students include Fleming, Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, Paul H. Puck, University Professor, and two past presidents of the American Historical Association, Merie E. Curti '20 and Carl Bridenbaugh...
...Chamber Music Players will present their Summer School Concert at 8:30 p.m. Monday, August 13, in Paine Hall. Members of the group are Martha Curti, Marguerite Jupp, Harry Wordstron, Sandy Shapiro, Vernon Head, James Wood, and David Lewin...
Such were the beginnings of the University of Wisconsin, 100 years ago. Last week Wisconsin's Historian Merle Curti concluded that today's students would have found little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful...