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4 days ago · The date, 9/11, written US-style, month before day, was the next great turning point in world history after 9/11, written European-style—that is 9 November 1989, the day the Berlin Wall came down. Europe’s 9/11 of hope was followed by America’s 9/11 of fear. The trauma of a direct assault on the heart of the American homeland, for the ...
5 days ago · July 4, 2024 | American History, History, Literature, Military History, Political Science, Politics. This 248th Independence Day, also known as Fourth of July, marks the historic day American colonists declared their freedom from Great Britain and adopted the Declaration of Independence.
1 day ago · Courbet’s Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting, by Paul Galvez, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022, 208 pp., 75 col. illus., hardback, £35. While in the nineteenth century, grottoes and caves were imagined largely as the abodes of prehistoric people, later landmark discoveries of cave paintings, such as the French grotto ...
1 day ago · The Year That Broke Politics. H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-18Luke Nichter. The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-0300254396 (hardcover, $37.50); 9780300274929 (ebook, $37.50).
1 day ago · Gerhard Schurz. Gerhard Schurz is a Senior Professor of Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. Before his professorship in Düsseldorf, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg and a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and at Yale University. His research areas include philosophy of science ...
4 days ago · Machu Picchu is an Inca royal estate built around 1450 ce in an ethereal cloud forest in the southern Peruvian highlands. Constructed during Inca Pachacuti’s reign and abandoned soon after Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Andes in 1531, the site remained largely unknown to the Western world until July 24, 1911, when Hiram Bingham and a Yale University expedition entered the overgrown ...
1 day ago · 7. Having a positively energizing relationship with yourself. Eighty percent of millennials endorse the idea “I am not good enough” with regards to almost every aspect of their life. Most people are running around with high self-criticism, which we know leads to depression, anxiety, fear of failure and lower motivation.
