Word: historian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to talk peace," says Agricultural Historian Wayne Rasmussen, "a sufficient supply of food is one of the best assurances...
...Presidents are housed in the Library of Congress in Washington. But Presidents starting with Hoover have preferred that their papers rest in their own libraries. Some scholars have argued that it is more convenient to centralize presidential collections, rather than scatter them across the nation in what Columbia Historian Henry Graff terms "the pyramids of our times." Yet, as the National Archives points out, a quadrennial flood of documents by the millions would probably overwhelm any single institution. Also, as one Government archivist concedes, "not all scholars live in Washington...
...shipped to Dearborn along with seven railroad cars full of the clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil Ludwig described the original event, "When Edison snatched up the spark of Prometheus in his little pear-shaped glass bulb, it meant that fire had been discovered for the second time, that mankind had been delivered again from the curse of night...
...precisely defined the ingredients necessary for a society to generate innovation. Historian Barbara Tuchman notes that the 12th and 13th centuries enjoyed "one of civilization's great bursts of development," with the introduction of the compass, the spinning wheel and the windmill. Mid-19th century Europe and the U.S. enjoyed similar explosions. But why? Perhaps necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and the demands of the current energy and environmental crises may yet revive the spirit of the Yankee tinkerer...
...personally and while he rejected as anachronistic the CIA mentality--"Helms belongs to the past"--he does not beg the question. Quite correctly, Powers tries to avoid a prosecutorial approach. To assess the CIA's performance in it first 30 years, one needs not a D.A. but a diligent historian...