Topic: History
Business as Usual: Elite Universities during the 1930s
Resources and intelligence do not necessarily translate into political or moral fortitude. Stephen H. Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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On November 17, 2008 the Senate of the University of Waterloo met to discuss a proposal to establish a satellite campus in […]
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Lucien X. Polastron, Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History, translator: Jon E. Graham (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2007); Fernando Baez, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, translator: Alfred MacAdam (New York: Atlas & Co, 2008).
READ MORE“Saving floods of useless ink”: academic historians and cinematic history
Duke University’s John Herd Thompson explores how academic historians always lose when taking on filmmakers and their depiction of the past
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