Author: Walter Muir WhitehillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674365858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Boston Public Library
Author: Walter Muir WhitehillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674365858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"The Gates Unbarred"
Author: Michael ShinagelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036161
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Gates Unbarred traces the evolution of University Extension at Harvard from the Lyceum movement in Boston to its creation by the newly appointed president A. Lawrence Lowell in 1910. For a century University Extension has provided community access to Harvard, including the opportunity for women and men to earn a degree. In its storied history, University Extension played a pioneering role in American continuing higher education: initiating educational radio courses with Harvard professors in the late 1940s, followed by collegiate television courses for credit in the 1950s, and more recently Harvard College courses available online. In the 1960s a two-year curriculum was prepared for the U.S. nuclear navy ("Polaris University"), and in the early 1970s Extension responded to community needs by reaching out to Cambridge and Roxbury with special applied programs. This history is not only about special programs but also about remarkable people, from the distinguished members of the Harvard faculty who taught evenings in Harvard Yard to the singular students who earned degrees, ranging from the youngest ALB at age eighteen, to the oldest ALB and ALM recipients, both aged eighty-nine--and both records at Harvard University.
Say It Loud!
Author: Randall KennedyPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0593316045
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time—from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court. Kennedy is "among the most incisive American commentators on race" (The New York Times). Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy, deep fellow feeling, decency, and wit, Say It Loud! includes: The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril • Isabel Wilkerson, the Election of 2020, and Racial Caste • The Princeton Ultimatum: Antiracism Gone Awry • The Constitutional Roots of “Birtherism” • Inequality and the Supreme Court • “Nigger”: The Strange Career Continues • Frederick Douglass: Everyone’s Hero • Remembering Thurgood Marshall • Why Clarence Thomas Ought to Be Ostracized • The Politics of Black Respectability • Policing Racial Solidarity In each essay, Kennedy is mindful of complexity, ambivalence, and paradox, and he is always stirring and enlightening. Say It Loud! is a wide-ranging summa of Randall Kennedy’s thought on the realities and imaginaries of race in America.
American Oracle
Author: David W. BlightPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674262115
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
“The ghosts of the Civil War never leave us, as David Blight knows perhaps better than anyone, and in this superb book he masterfully unites two distant but inextricably bound events.”―Ken Burns Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, a century after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared, “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” He delivered this speech just three years after the Virginia Civil War Commission published a guide proclaiming that “the Centennial is no time for finding fault or placing blame or fighting the issues all over again.” David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America’s most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Robert Penn Warren, the southern-reared poet-novelist who recanted his support of segregation; Bruce Catton, the journalist and U.S. Navy officer who became a popular Civil War historian; Edmund Wilson, the century’s preeminent literary critic; and James Baldwin, the searing African-American essayist and activist—each exposed America’s triumphalist memory of the war. And each, in his own way, demanded a reckoning with the tragic consequences it spawned. Blight illuminates not only mid-twentieth-century America’s sense of itself but also the dynamic, ever-changing nature of Civil War memory. On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the war, we have an invaluable perspective on how this conflict continues to shape the country’s political debates, national identity, and sense of purpose.
Four Cultures of the West
Author: John OMALLEYPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041690
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four "cultures" so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religion, education, and the arts, this timely book provides a broad framework for addressing these questions in a fresh way.
The First Jesuits
Author: John W. O'MalleyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674303133
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
"An arrestingly new picture of the early Jesuits and the world in which they lived. ...." [from back cover]
Beyond Suffrage, Women in the New Deal
Author: Susan WarePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674069220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Profiles women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration.
The Catholics of Harvard Square
Author: Jeffrey WillsPublisher: St. Bebe's Publications
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated and handsomely presented this is an intelligent work that will be of interest to all Americans. From the Bonapartes to Bernard Cardinal Law, alumni of Harvard and Radcliffe have made important contributions to Catholic life throughout the world. This remarkable history looks at the social intellectual and musical lives of those inter-connected communities, Reminiscences by a host of clergy and laity include Avery Dulles, SJ and many other fascinating people!
The Annotated Origin
Author: DarwinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674032811
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history of science. The Annotated Origin is a facsimile of the first edition of 1859, and is accompanied by James T. Costa’s marginal annotations, drawing on his extensive experience with Darwin’s ideas in the field, lab, and classroom.
The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School
Author: Harvard University. Law schoolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
