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EDITOR'S NOTE
Sep 01, 2009; ... "Only connect," E. M. Forster wrote. But if you are a humanist looking to transmit a message from the far corners of research to a truly public authence, doing so can seem impossible. Yet Harvard professor and 2003 NEH research fellow Jill Lepore makes it look easy as she commutes from ...
Curio
Sep 01, 2009; ... NIGHT PHYSIK From Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Carole Levin, WiIIa Collier Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, dissects the pleasant visions and unholy fears that filled the sleq) ...
What Samuel Johnson really did
Sep 01, 2009; ... He made dictionaries matter SAMUEL JOHNSON, POET, satirist, critic, lexicographer, and dyedin-the-wool conservative was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, on September 18, 1709. We are quickly approaching the tercentenary of Johnson's birth; scholars worldwide have been ...
The Public Historian
Sep 01, 2009; ... A Conversation with Jill Lepore Soon after earning her bachelor's degree in English from Tufts, Jill Lepore started working at Harvard, but not as a member of the faculty. The future David Woods Kemper '4 1 Professor of American History was clocking hours as a secretary on temporary ...
SUPREMELY CONTENTIOUS
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Transformation of "Advice and Consent" In the aftermath of the Senate hearings to consider the president's nominee to become the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, it's hard to remem- ber that the process wasn't always like this. There weren't always weeks of media coverage, and there ...