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Bernard Bailyn, Adams University professor and James Duncan Phillips professor of Early American History, emeritus, has been chosen to deliver the 27th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The lectureship is the highest honor for achievement in the humanities given by the United States government, and it carries an honorarium...
William Ferris, chair of the NEH, announced the honor. "Bernard Bailyn is one of America's most eminent historians," Ferris said. "His main work, on the ideas and beliefs that have shaped the American nation from the beginning, is an excellent context for taking stock of our nation's heritage as we stand at the cusp of the new millennium. I am delighted to name him this year's Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities...
...recipient of this honor, Bailyn joins intellectual luminaries such as Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Barbara Tuchman and Toni Morrison, all of whom were chosen to deliver past Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities
When she arrived as president, one of Bunting-Smith's first proposals was to create an institute where woman could overcome a climate of low expectations for women, said Rita N. Brock, the director of the Bunting Institute. The institute was renamed in Bunting-Smith's honor...
...write is to respect, to honor the citizen and protect the privacy of those who haven't desired the spotlight but may have been born into...