Word: historicization
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The trend has been especially hard on Central City, the working-class neighborhood sandwiched between New Orleans' downtown core and the historic Garden District. The neighborhood was dark for months after Katrina, but residents began returning in large numbers this spring, some to repair damaged homes and a dangerous few...
Back when most people stayed home, travel writing was a highly imaginative genre. Ask Pausanias, Ibn Battuta or Marco Polo about the strange creatures and bizarre customs that they, and evidently nobody else, encountered in their wanderings. But modern practitioners - Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer - have helped elevate travel...
Diane Dobry, 49, grew up hearing legends of her great-grandfather, a Hungarian nobleman reduced to managing a baroness's stable. Later, as an instructor of media studies at Queens College in New York City, Diane visited Hungary several times to do research and wanted to share the experience with...
For 122 years, it had become a signature event of New England sports. Everything that could have happened, did—an unforgettable Crimson 29-29 “win” in 1968, the purported strangling of real bulldogs by Harvard coaches, the Crimson’s first of...
The Crimson heavyweight crew is a powerhouse known for making history, and the 2006 team did not disappoint. Unfortunately for Harvard, the team repeatedly found itself on a side of history it would rather not occupy, as the Crimson became known for snapping historic winning streaks and failing to replicate...