… of Solitude, a plague attacks a small village, causing the people to lose, in stages, parts of their memories. First, … all manner of objects. Then identities begin to vanish; people do not recognize one another, and some even lose a … the face of public memory. “The remembered past,” warned John Lukacs in 1968, “is a much larger category than the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… University (Autumn 2015) “‘A Plausible Man’: The Life of John Andrew Jackson” Sophie White , Associate Professor, … Plantation Goods and the National Economy of Slavery” John Wood Sweet , University of North Carolina at Chapel … in Angola, 1650-1800” Patrick Rael , Bowdoin College, “John Brown Russwurm: A Biography fo the Atlantic World in the …
… ed. Andrew Tan. Malvern, 2006. James Dunn, Timor: A People Betrayed, Milton, Qld., Jacaranda, 1983. Helen M. … Belo of East Timor, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999. John G. Taylor, East Timor: The Price of Freedom, London, …
… has wide audience appeal. And then this week, Tsu, the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and … human desires and failings that powered a country and its people to save their written language,” she said. “There were …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… which will examine overlapping forced migrations of free people across the Mid-Atlantic, Upper South and Ohio Valley … Racial Segregation ( Book on Amazon ) Additional Readings: John P. Bowes, Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian …
… Empire and the Making of Our World,” was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize for a written work of scholarship … history for several years. It was fascinating to see these people in Mexico City, of all places, and I wanted to chart … at Yale. I loved the opportunity to engage with other people’s work. I learned so much from my colleagues in the …