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...reason why Egnal’s interpretation of the conflict might be unfashionable is the troubling light it throws on this period of American history. More than 600,000 soldiers were killed during the Civil War, and this brutality is much easier to justify in the name of high ideals, like the preservation of each individual’s inalienable rights. If the war had economic motivations, though, this “war of liberation” becomes something much darker. Egnal calls this, “one of the tragedies of American history,” explaining that despite...
...also asked her colleagues to consider what should happen during next year’s inaugural January ‘J-term’—the four-week stint in next year’s revamped University calendar whose structure remains uncertain. Even the name of the period remains unclear. But Hammonds has settled on calling it the “January experience...
...existence, the festival itself is still fairly straightforward. A series of theatres spread across the Salt Lake City area—though primarily in Park City—each show between four and five independent films (features, documentaries, and shorts) each day over a two-week period. I was only there for the second week of the festival and primarily saw feature films from the Premiere, U. S. Dramatic, and World Dramatic categories...
...creating portraits of about 40 different freshmen. The project became Costello’s way of exploring the freshmen transition and their struggle to combine Harvard’s expectations with their own. “I’m trying to reveal the limbo, the in-between period,” Costello said. “It’s such a profound time of transformation. The nuances of the shift for each individual each had their own way of falling onto the film.”While Costello documented students’ discoveries of what it means...
...amid all the memorials there are surprisingly few details about some of the most pivotal periods of Mao's life. The museum focuses on the early days of the Communist Party, the Long March, resistance against the Japanese and the defeat of the Nationalists. As might be expected in a country whose founding father's image is rigorously managed, there is little mention of the disastrous Great Leap Forward, a period of forced collectivization that led to famine and the deaths of millions, or the Cultural Revolution and the persecution of millions more labeled as counterrevolutionaries...