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...which will be taught by Professor Sven Beckert, a nineteenth century Americanist with a predilection for nakedly Marxist historiography. Keep a lookout for B-45, a new course on the Darwinian Revolution, as the department’s few core offerings grow increasingly controversial and relevant.Then for the twentieth century: the most violent events in human history, represented in Historical Studies B by a rare few classes on wars. B-54, “World War II” is taught by History professor Charles Maier. (In case you don’t know, he’s kind...
...Niall Ferguson may have retired as the Laurence A. Tisch professor of history at Harvard University and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. His latest book, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, has just been published by Penguin Press...
...offered to Harvard Extension School students during the 2006-2007 academic year. Professors of the College courses also head the Extension School classes. In the fall, College course lectures available to Extension School students will include Historical Study B-54, “World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II”—taught by Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier—Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights: Five Performance Premieres”; Quantitative Reasoning 50, “Medical Detectives”; and Social Analysis...
Aalto, a Finnish architect, was “one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century,” according to Emeritus Hooker Professor of Visual Art Eduard F. Sekler...
...things went wrong, he did not fly into a rage.”At the Gallery, Brown also increased the curatorial staff considerably and made it more professional, says Zerner. Brown needed this enlarged curatorial staff for his expansion of the Gallery’s permanent collection, especially of twentieth century art. “He was interested in doing new kinds of things that would bring cultural enrichment to the museum and to the country,” says Daniels.Following his retirement in 1992 as the longest-serving director, Brown became chairman of the cable television arts network Ovation...