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...will be looking at the artworks themselves, as well as the history of looking at artwork,” says Ebbinghaus, a Lecturer in the Classics Department who specializes in Classical Art and Archaeology. “There are many different ways of looking at objects, from an art historian??s point of view to an anthropologist’s point of view, and we want the students to see the museum not as just an aesthetic place, but as something they can shape themselves.”The course strives to allow freshmen to make a connection...
What to do when you graduate into a world that seems completely different from the one you prepared for? It was good to have a few members of the Adams family near by; at least Henry could offer comfort. The Harvard historian??s generation slouched into the twentieth century with the same bewilderment with which we face ours, also feeling trained for an era that looked nothing like...
...Finally, well-meaning Harvard administrators—led as they are by a social historian??undoubtedly recognize that the future leaders who pass through this university will shape the institutions they go on to run after the institutions that raised them. One of President Drew G. Faust’s original, now quaint, initiatives was to inquire into why so many students were accepting unfulfilling jobs in the financial services industry after graduation. A case that students should instead follow their hearts and work to build a better society is inherently less convincing coming from a university that...
...revolution and an intellectual interpretation. 13.FM: It seems like in 200 years, social historians will have a wealth of blogs, archives, and other documentation to work with. How do you think that will change the game, if at all? JL: I think a lot of that stuff, from the historian??s point of view, is pretty noisy. Even the 19th century gets kind of noisy to me, it can be hard to sort through where real patterns are to be found. I don’t know that I think that it necessarily makes the historian?...
...Israeli “new historian?? Benny Morris—a strong Zionist—has documented the “Origins of the Palestine Refugee Problem.” During military operations in 1947 and 1948 against Palestinian resisters and Arab invading armies trying ineffectually to prevent the creation of a Jewish state, Jewish regular and irregular forces, sometimes using carefully calibrated terror tactics, drove somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 Palestinian men, women and children from their villages, which they then leveled. After the war, they used force to prevent any of them from returning...