Word: schamas
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Entering Columbia will not be a completely new experience for Schama. He says he already has many friends in Columbia's History Department, which is much bigger than Harvard's. "It's not like going to a new place," he says...
...Schama's colleagues at Columbia say his breadth of knowledge and interests will be an important asset to their department...
...Schama plans to teach a year-long course on environmental history, which he hopes will contribute to his next book on landscape and memory...
...Story-telling [is] an extremely serious matter and [has] at least as much intellectual toughness and dignity and complexity as delivery of point one, two, and three," Schama says, his forehead furrowing. "[In my writing] the meat of the history is very often in story-telling...
Storytelling is one of the keys to understanding historical detail, Schama says. "When I was growing up," he recalls, "I was taught history would die on the page if it wasn't written not only for other professional working stiffs but also for the public...