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That, at least, is the story according to Daniel Horsmanden, who compiled the “Journal of the Proceedings in The Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some White People, in Conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for Burning the City of NEW-YORK in America, And Murdering the Inhabitants.” In spite of the official sounding title, the journal was a biased document with a clear agenda. Horsmanden served on the judiciary, and he wanted to persuade readers that the court had executed the right 34 people. To this day, the question remains: was there...
...that point, some New Yorkers were already wondering whether they had been fools “in the merciless Flames of an Imaginary Plot.” Horsmanden compiled his journal to show them the evidence. And in “New York Burning,” Lepore shows just how shoddy the evidence was that sent 13 slaves to the stake and 17 more to the gallows along with four white co-conspirators...
...with some effort, TFs and professors could save students substantial amounts of money. There are a number of simple ways that coursepacks can be made cheaper. Harvard already pays huge sums for copyrights on its online resources. Professors who incur copyright costs by including in their coursepacks newspaper or journal articles (almost invariably available through e-resources) can save students money simply by linking to the articles. And more than just articles are available online. Last year, Environmental Science and Public Policy 10 did without printed coursepacks, posting all required readings on the course website...
...courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes in the journal Public Interest, Although interesting and certainly au courant, a history that preoccupies itself primarily with the boundaries of civilizations runs a risk of becoming marginal history...
Scientists said that the findings, which were published on Sept. 1 in the journal Nature, could help them understand why diseases such as Alzheimer’s, AIDS, malaria, and certain cancers are more prevalent and severe in humans than in chimpanzees and other great apes...