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Since then, I often explain to people that I like history (the discipline if not always the department) because it is the only social science that actually values the opinions of its subjects. Put another way, historians rely far less on theory than do their fellow social scientists. Bernard Bailyn's brilliant classic, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, investigates the roots of late 18th century American political thought. Had it been written by a professor of another social science, the title might have been something along the lines of Dissent and Its Other: Theoretical Explorations of the 18th...
...findings have given physicists intellectual satisfaction, and may even help them explain how matter was first created said Brandenburg...
Jewett declined to explain why the extension was granted for just two years...
...never gone a year without teaching an undergraduate course and I don't think methods have really changed," Solow says. "You still stand up with a piece of chalk and explain things...
...pornography was a form of intoxication -- and thus reason to mitigate the sentence an Indiana man received for rape and murder. His client suffered from sexual sadism because of pornography, rendering him unable to gauge the wrongfulness of his conduct. Another lawyer in Milwaukee coined "cultural psychosis" to explain why an inner-city teenager killed another for her leather coat. The defense attorney sought to convince jurors that the girl's traumatic childhood in a violent inner-city neighborhood created a mental disorder similar to the posttraumatic stress syndrome that afflicts some Vietnam veterans...