H.W. Brands’s The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr lays out the details of Burr’s lifetime in short, swiftly moving chapters.
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Killing Ground, Healing Ground: An Interview with Photographer John Huddleston
Armed with a camera, Middlebury College professor John Huddleston makes pilgrimages into the American landscape to capture touchstones for shared cultural memory.
Posted in Artist Interviews, Visuals Also tagged Civil War, John Huddleston, Photographers, Photography
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A People’s History, The Dark Materials, Becoming Jane Austen
Very recently I began a journey that many others were already on. Person after person kept mentioning the same book to me that they were very hungrily reading. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, you ask? No, indeed not. (Besides, I read that the night it came out like the crazy, sleep-deprived maniac I was.) […]
Natasha’s Dance
I just started Orlando Figes’ excellent Natasha’s Dance: The Cultural History of Russia
Germany Year Zero
History is constantly torn between science and art. Sometimes, people try to resolve this dilemma by pulling art, and fiction in particular, toward the scientific, sometimes, by stressing the artistic side of science, and, sometimes, by calling it a void argument. But how do we avoid a question inscribed in the ambiguity of the very […]
