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...these accomplishments indicated to us that Mary Lewis was already—and would only become more so—a major historian in the field of modern French History,” Cohen wrote. “She has also been an extremely successful undergraduate and graduate teacher...
Early on, Carson uses history as a way into her discussion of elegy, focusing on the Greek writer Herodotos: “Herodotos is an historian who trains you as you read. It is a process of asking, searching, collecting, doubting, striving, testing, blaming and above all standing amazed at the strange things humans do.” The study of history often raises more questions, Herodotos argues, than it resolves. Carson’s elegy is indeed similar to Herodotos’ concept of history. Although she does not fully arrive at an understanding of her brother?...
...There are many anecdotal accounts of animals acting strangely before tremors, but there's little hard science. "This is the first study that monitors unusual behavior in animals for a significant period before and after a major earthquake," Grant says. In the 1st century, the Greek historian Diodorus recounted how rats, centipedes and snakes escaped from the city of Helice in 373 B.C. a few days before an earthquake dropped it into the Corinthian Gulf. After an earthquake struck China's Sichuan province in 2008, killing 68,000 people, residents in the city of Mianzhu said they had seen...
Whether one can have it all, or should even desire it, are driving questions of “The Heidi Chronicles,” Wendy Wasserstein’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an art historian searching for fulfillment among the women’s rights movement. Wasserstein’s Heidi came of age in the sixties and entered adulthood in the seventies, a time when women were supposed to achieve independence and gain new freedoms. She has brains, looks, and a successful career. So why is she so unhappy...
...Adams in Winter: a Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon,” against the background of Adams’ troubled marriage and peripatetic life as a diplomatic wife, British historian Michael O’Brien marshals an impressive array of sources in order to recreate Mrs. Adams’ journey across Europe. The result is an agreeable mix of biography, travelogue, and historical narrative—a book whose form is as hybrid as its subject. O’Brien describes Louisa Catherine Adams as “migrant, transnational, bicultural, bilingual,” and proposes...