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Looking back at her Harvard experience, Davidson, who was a literature concentrator in Adams House, points to a seminar by former Mellon Professor of Social Sciences Simon Schama as the course that turned writing around...
Lately, Britain's globe-trotting, crowd-pleasing telechefs have been losing air time (and book sales) to a new breed of celebrity: the telehistorian, serving up entertaining, easy-to-digest lessons about the past. In rapid succession, Simon Schama's blockbuster A History of Britain has been followed by Adam Hart-Davis' What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us and David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII Now, with the timing of a busy sous chef, Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford University, launches Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Allen...
America's appetite for history on TV is simple: if it's not ours and nothing blows up, we're not interested. But we should all make an exception for author Simon Schama's A History of Britain (History Channel, Nov. 4 and 5, 9p.m. E.T.), a densely packed but lively and entertaining documentary that looks at great events as an exchange of ideas more than of artillery rounds...
...Schama, narrating in a scruffy leather jacket, is a popularizer in the best sense. He can be snarky, poetic or both, as when he describes Queen Victoria's funeral procession, the monarch dressed in white: "There was a touch of Miss Havisham about this--the 80-year-old, flower-bedecked virgin bride." He's an enlightening, entertaining guide to a history that isn't ours, except that it really is. --By James Poniewozik
...Schama, too, was awarded one of these teaching awards as a Harvard professor...