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Schama, university professor of history and art history at Columbia University, is a veritable superstar of popular academic writing. His sweeping history of the French Revolution, “Citizens,” published in 1989, first established his reputation as a canonical modern historian. His three-volume “History of Britain” cemented his prestige...
...equivalent of today’s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
...Mona Lisa is more intense than ever. After studying the painting with 3-D laser scanners, researchers posited last week that Leonardo da Vinci's subject was pregnant, lending scientific cred to an old theory. "People have said there is an enigma to the Mona Lisa," says historian Donald Sassoon, author of Becoming Mona Lisa. "That makes it popular because people like enigmas and secret codes." True enough. Here are some puzzles scientists and writers think they've solved in just the past year...
...Didn't Know ends shortly after that promising second call. Left largely untold is what happened next in Hughes' life: a breakdown, the suicide at age 34 of his sculptor son Danton, his happy third marriage to American artist Doris Downes and his rise as a celebrity art historian and author of, among other masterpieces, A Jerk on One End, a charming volume about his lifelong passion for fishing. Clearly, another memoir is required. But first Hughes may have to finish the book on Leonardo and wrestle further with the demons that drove him to become such an implacable enemy...
...family," she says. "That means a real mix of names and types such as the Gonzales-Brauns, the Harrison-Perreiras with their multilingual, multicultural children." Or the Arbach-Benzes. Lena and Denya Arbach-Benz, ages 5 and 9, live in Toulouse, France, with their Moroccan father Jamal Arbach, a historian, and their German mother Bettina Benz, an architect, who met in Toulouse. "It's a great chance for the girls to grow up with three cultures," says Arbach. "The world is becoming far more global in future and I don't want them to withdraw when they are confronted with...