NEW YORK - Pulitzer-Prize winners Garry Wills, Ron Chernow, Jon Meacham and Stacy Schiff are among hundreds of historians who have signed an open letter cal
Strange Horizons Shakespeare,
The Tempest
Say the word curse and generally two sorts of images will leap to mind; the first will probably be the composite picture of a thousand B-movie and cartoon villains exclaiming Curses! Foiled again, and the second may be one of several things, but it will very likely have something to do with Egypt, and will almost certainly involve a corpse, or a doll stuck with pins. This second set of images is not absolutely misleading, but it is limiting. Because these images are mostly foreign to us, it is easy to think that curses are safely confined within some exotic and ignorant past. But many people throughout the western world still believe in curses and perform them, and they do so for reasons that would not seem strange to those who lived in Europe and the subcontinent two, three, or six thousand years ago. The cursing methods of these places are the source of the great majority of curse stories and methods which are popular in the Weste
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Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
By David S. Reynolds |
Penguin Press
Antebellum America was a rough-and-tumble proposition, with the dangerous and uncouth life of the frontier reflected in a fractious political scene in which violent language often crossed over into fistfights and worse. In this revelatory work of cultural biography, Abraham Lincoln emerges as a leader who embodied the wildness and exuberance of the era.
american history tv is at the annual organization meeting in milwaukee. mary beth norton is a history professor with cornell university. and a lot of your work focuses on pre-colonial and colonial women. you ve written a lot about it. what interests you in this subject? well, for one thing, very few people think about women in the colonial period or, if they do, they think of them just as, i don t know, house workers, you know, work erks around the house. they don t think of their potential public roles. one of the things i m interested in in the 17th century is women who take prom nentd, public roles. and in the 18 lt century,i m interested in i did a whole book on women s revolution. so i m interested in the how women perceive they re relationship to the public realm. how men see women in the public realm in the run up to the ref lugs and during the revolution. what would be some of the early examples of women in the public realm prior to the rev lugsz? prior to t
and a lot of the turkeys this is a drug that most of the drugs are given to make the animals grow fast, they get more money. this particular drug is not withdrawn when they walk on to the killing floor. that means when the animal is killed and the meat is sold, the drug is in there. this weekend on afterwards, martha rosenberg looks behind the scenes of the food and drug industries and finds regulatory lapses and government complicity in undermining the public health. born with a junk food deficiency, tonight at 9:00, part of book tv this weekend on c-span2. up next, cornell university history professor mary beth norton discusses women s roles in colonial america. she argues that there were elite and influential women, but that they re overlooked by historians and the general public. professor norton also discusses the salem witch trials of 1692 and her book on the subject in the devil s snare. this 30 minute program took place at the organization of american historians