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...history and art history at Columbia University, is a veritable superstar of popular academic writing. His sweeping history of the French Revolution, “Citizens,” published in 1989, first established his reputation as a canonical modern historian. His three-volume “History of Britain?? cemented his prestige...
...Rough Crossings” is Schama’s first book since the third volume of “Britain?? came out in 2002, and it’s a return to form of the highest order. Instead of resting on his laurels and keeping to well-worn historiographical ruts, Schama seems to be using his fame to push a far more idiosyncratic project...
...professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain??s Gulag in Kenya.” The then-assistant professor’s first book would garner her a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.“She was here all the time, seven days a week—I’d come...
...professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time. On Tuesday, one of Britain??s largest unions of university instructors passed a resolution urging its members to boycott speeches by Israeli academics who do not condemn “continuing Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall and discriminatory educational practice.” Summers called the union?...
...give the museum a day-to-day excitement,” says Maygene Daniels, chief of gallery archives at the National Gallery of Art.Brown’s most well-known exhibitions include “Treasures of Tutankhamen” in 1977, “Treasure Houses of Britain?? in 1985, and “Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration,” a 500th anniversary show of Columbus’ 1492 voyage and Brown’s final accomplishment as the Gallery’s director.In organizing these exhibitions, Brown paid acute attention...