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After he steps down, Lehman will return to work as a professor at Cornell’s law school, following a one-year sabbatical. He will also serve as a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington...
...chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student as a scholar and a citizen...
...much as any professional historian or Lincoln scholar, the pretend Lincolns show us why the 16th President remains such a colossus in the American imagination. These men are a little freaky, but through their eyes--often set in a hard stare to mimic those dreary 19th century portraits--you get a pretty good view of his legacy...
...share beds in the mid-19th century was as common and as mundane as men sharing houses or apartments in the early 21st. Tripp's claim proceeds from what Jonathan Ned Katz calls "epistemological hubris and ontological chutzpah." A scholar of 19th century sexuality, Katz explains that the terms homosexual and heterosexual did not exist in Lincoln's time, and that fact is just one piece of evidence that the concepts of gender, sexuality and same-sex relationships were radically different in Lincoln's world. In those days, men could be openly affectionate with one another, physically and verbally, without...
...Lincoln's Melancholy, focuses on how depression simultaneously challenged Lincoln and made him stronger. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin offers us a preview of her forthcoming work on Lincoln's political genius by showing how different aspects of Lincoln's deep emotional intelligence made him a highly effective leader. Lincoln scholar Douglas L. Wilson probes the sources of Lincoln's rhetorical powers; Harvard professor John Stauffer focuses on Lincoln's surprising relationship with another towering figure of that age, abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who holds the seat Lincoln tried and failed to gain, explains...