Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674354432
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Essays on Harvard's history provide sample glimpses of a part still significant in the twentieth century.
Glimpses of the Harvard Past
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674354432
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Essays on Harvard's history provide sample glimpses of a part still significant in the twentieth century.
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674641617
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.
A New History of German Literature
Author: David E. WellberyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015036
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Glances and Glimpses
Author: Harriot Kesia HuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Born Losers
Author: Scott A. SandagePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.
The Making of the New Deal
Author: Katie LouchheimPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Reminiscences of lawyers, economists, and public administrators who worked in Washington during the thirties offer a detailed look at the Roosevelt Administration.
Intellectual History and Academic Culture at the University of Michigan
Author: Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard
Author: The Presidential Committee on the Legacy of SlaveryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674292464
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Harvard’s searing and sobering indictment of its own long-standing relationship with chattel slavery and anti-Black discrimination. In recent years, scholars have documented extensive relationships between American higher education and slavery. The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard adds Harvard University to the long list of institutions, in the North and the South, entangled with slavery and its aftermath. The report, written by leading researchers from across the university, reveals hard truths about Harvard’s deep ties to Black and Indigenous bondage, scientific racism, segregation, and other forms of oppression. Between the university’s founding in 1636 and 1783, when slavery officially ended in Massachusetts, Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff enslaved at least seventy people, some of whom worked on campus, where they cared for students, faculty, and university presidents. Harvard also benefited financially and reputationally from donations by slaveholders, slave traders, and others whose fortunes depended on human chattel. Later, Harvard professors and the graduates they trained were leaders in so-called race science and eugenics, which promoted disinvestment in Black lives through forced sterilization, residential segregation, and segregation and discrimination in education. No institution of Harvard’s scale and longevity is a monolith. Harvard was also home to abolitionists and pioneering Black thinkers and activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Eva Beatrice Dykes. In the late twentieth century, the university became a champion of racial diversity in education. Yet the past cannot help casting a long shadow on the present. Harvard’s motto, Veritas, inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, is an exhortation to pursue truth. The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard advances that necessary quest.
History of Higher Education Annual
Author: Roger GeigerPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412825290
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Author: Walter BenjaminPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century is translated into English for the first time in book form.