Word: kennans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Similarly, most of the 75, students gathered at the introductory lecture in History 155a seemed amenable to Kennan's suggestion of a reading period in the beginning. Students will have until Feb. 9 to do the reading for the course; then, each will draw up possible examination questions to prove he has done the reading...
...known, this is the first ?? a Harvard lecture course with a lar?? rollment has begun with a reading p?? The change does not appear to re?? any special University approval. Th? Faculty members involved-Edward ?? Banfield; Henry Lee Shattuck. Pro?? of Urban Government, and Edward Kennan Jr '57. Lecturer on History ??rived at their decisions separately...
...revisionists have a particular quarrel with the dominant scholarly voice of the recent past: what they call "consensus history," as exemplified by such diverse writers as Richard Hofstadter of Columbia, Daniel Boorstin of the Smithsonian Institution, Henry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, and George Kennan of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The consensus historians, who came to maturity during World War II and the early years of the cold war, exhibit an understandable hostility to totalitarianism in their writings. By contrast, they emphasize the spirit of compromise and accommodation in American history. Compared with...