Word: historians
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...Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that there are 30-year cycles of American history that swing between eras of liberalism and conservatism -- periods he calls Private Interest and Public Purpose...
When a Princeton historian wanted to research the influence of anti-Communist sentiment on academic hiring during the 1950s, most of the nation's universities opened their archives to the scholar. Harvard...
...adventure started in 1979, when photographer Nicholas B. Dean '57, who was working for the National Maritime Museum at the time, discovered the ship "by dumb luck." A local historian in the Falklands mentioned to Dean, who is from Maine, that there was a Maine-built ship in the shallow water under a harbor dock, Dean said...
...nimble charts, was receiving its first public performance in six decades. It is part of a trove of music by Broadway's old masters -- Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter -- discovered in 80 boxes in a Secaucus, N.J., warehouse. Now, after five years of archaeology, Historian Robert Kimball has prepared a 178-page inventory of some of the contents for the first volume of the Catalog of the American Musical, to be published in September by the National Institute for Music Theater (NIMT). "We have reclaimed a vital part of our musical heritage," Kimball boasts. "These works will...
Ferruolo said since Harvard had recently turned down a top American historian, Stanford turned him down to show that they can also turn down leading scholars and maintain standards as high as Harvard...