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Such theories gained widespread credibility early last year with the publication of Yale historian Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, which skyrocketed to No.2 on the New York Times best-seller list with its predictions of America's relative decline from its position of world hegemony...
Rare is the illustrated book in which pictures and words equally reward attention. The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge; 240 pages; $75) admirably succeeds on both counts. For openers, it offers for the first time in English an extended essay by Jacob Burckhardt, the 19th century cultural historian best known for his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). Burckhardt's study of Italian altarpieces, originally published in German a year after his death in 1897, remains magisterially informative. And the accompanying reproductions, including work by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Titian and Michelangelo, do more than supplement Burckhardt's text...
...Department following his talk, Gates and DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathin I. Huggins engaged in a long discussion on precisely this topic. Professors who atteneded the dinner said the night represented a kind of passing of the torch in Black studies from the older historian to the younger literary critic...
...report that Huggins wrote for the Ford Foundation in 1985 on the state of Afro-American Studies, the Harvard historian says that "I have written here mainly of historians, in part because they were asked to play a major role in [the founding of] Afro-American studies." Huggins, whose report examines the future of the discipline as well as its past, went on to say that "to the extent there was a field, it depended on [the historians...
Gates, an undergraduate at Yale from 1969 to 1973, says that he and many other scholars in the field were influenced by the historian Arthur Schomburg's reminder that "before we can progress, we have to understand our past." History was therefore the preoccupation of the first phase of Afro-American studies, he argues...