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...billion photographs are snapped each week-blogged, harbored in albums or, just as inevitably, consigned to refuse bins at the sight of an unflattering haircut. It is these rustling forests of lost and discarded images that concern photo historian Michel Frizot and photography professor Cédric de Veigy. Their Photo Trouvée, recently published by Phaidon, brings together 285 anonymous, amateur snapshots, salvaged from flea markets and antique shops over the past 20 years. Behind every one is a delicious enigma: Who captured...
...yesterday’s meeting professors voted that students be required to take one course engaged “substantially with the study of the past”—a move described by one historian as “mostly symbolic” but important for fellow colleagues who have criticized the present-day focus of the proposed curriculum...
...Harvard hasn’t given up on tradition,” Laurel T. Ulrich, a historian of early America and a member of the governing board of the Faculty, said following the meeting...
...border's treacherous, land mine-riddled terrain, melting into the mountains only to resurface, ever stronger, from their myriad training camps and bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with the elusive Fakir of Ipi, the heirs of that British frontier force of old might, too, never get their...
...historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University professor, agreed. “Harvard’s elongated semester contrasts starkly with those of other research universities,” she wrote in an e-mailed statement. “I certainly wouldn’t oppose a change...