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...course, “mental illness” is a notoriously ill-defined ailment and subject to great manipulation by the psychiatric establishment and the state. Thomas S. Szasz, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the State University of New York in Syracuse, Michel Foucault, historian and philosopher, and others have shown that governments have frequently applied labels of “madness,” “insanity,” and “mental illness” to political and social dissidents...
Recently, venerable Yale art historian Vincent Scully ’40, MA ’47, PhD ’49 recounted for me a time long ago, when Yale vs. Harvard meant just as much as Michigan vs. Ohio State. Back then, he said, games would be played later in the afternoon, so when Yale would lose, the sky was inevitably a bluish-black (as it was 363 days ago), the sun having set not just on a day or a season but on all of autumn...
...have to do this in an interdisciplinary way,” said Hoffman, an historian of France...
...from the tranquil present to the midst of battle and back. "All is quiet, and the place speaks to you," he writes at Villers-Bretonneux. "You can hear the chatter of machine guns and the shouts of men on the ground." He doesn't see himself as a military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks out the details that bring the past, and the dead, to life. Brigadier-General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor...
When men as important as former Senator George S. McGovern and historian William R. Polk ’51 write a book entitled, “Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now,” people tend to take notice. It’s too bad if anyone did here...