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...History is a non-entity at high school," Professor of History Simon M. Schama said in an interview last month. "It is not surprising that students are unprepared, seeing that the textbooks are so appalling...
...wonderful appointment," said Schama. "We've all got a lot to learn from...
Professor Simon M. Schama--whose popular course Literature and Arts C-34, "Art and Revolution in Europe" features Bryson's book Word and Image--said he was pleased to have Bryson aboard...
CITIZENS, A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by Simon Schama (Knopf; $29.95). Exactly 200 years after the bloody facts, a Harvard historian offers a fascinating, often surprising account of what went right -- and wrong -- during one of the world's most celebrated social convulsions...
...nonpartisan British and American scholars, presents a more complex picture of the revolution: nobles seeking to weaken royal power played a driving role in the rebellion, for example; few peasants suffered under a feudal yoke. In the U.S. a much heralded new work by Harvard University's Simon Schama, called Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, depicts the ancien regime in a positive light -- not too differently from France's current best seller La Revolution, by historian Francois Furet. "The French have come to realize that the revolution was a magnificent event that turned out badly," says Furet...