Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I have always liked history," says Actress Faye Dunaway, 43, but when she began researching her role as Spain's Queen Isabella for Christopher Columbus, a TV mini-series to be aired next season, she found that "very little had been written about her." Dunaway did finally turn up...
A handful of serious causes also inspired students in the 50s. In 1958, after a feature on religion ran in The Crimson, a controversy arose over who could and could not be married in Memorial Church. The church's minister, George Buttrick. The Crimson reported, wanted the church reserved for...
One left the event with more than theories, more than the effete guilt-ridden, liberalism that followed Birmingham and preceded busing. Guilt comes too cheaply when there is work left to be done--not marches, but the still harder work of integrating truth into a society that has never been...
Now 30 archaeologists, historians and war buffs are braving rattlesnakes and ticks to help set the record straight about perhaps the least documented shootout in U.S. history. They are brandishing metal detectors and trowels in a foot-by-foot survey of the historic ground. One reason there has never been...
Preparations for the federal bailout, the swiftest and most complete on record, began shortly after rumors started circulating about Continental on May 10. Details were hashed out in meetings and phone calls between Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, FDIC Chairman William Isaac and Comptroller of the Currency C. Todd Conover...