Word: revolutionize
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Nine years ago, in an introductory session for research fellows, visiting professor James Livesey ’94 declared to an audience of scholars that the French Revolution was a good thing. The then-controversial statement was met not with outrage, but with chuckles.
Livesey “has this new way of thinking about the Revolution,” says Goelet Professor of French History Patrice Higonnet, who taught Livesey when he was a grad student and remains close to the professor from the University of Sussex.
In one of the most influential critiques of the French Revolution, scholars have traced the origins of modern totalitarianism to the Revolution.
In the past half century, American colleges and universities have shared in a revolution, serving as both the emblem and the engine of the expansion of equality, citizenship, and opportunity—to blacks, women, Jews, immigrants, and others who would have been subjected to quotas or excluded altogether in...
At institutions like Harvard and its peers, this revolution has been built on the notion that access should be based, as Jefferson urged, on talent, not circumstance. In the late 1960s, Harvard began sustained efforts to identify and attract outstanding minority students; in the 1970s, it gradually removed quotas limiting...