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Tag: Ann Blair
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Nation & World
Eminent historian Bernard Bailyn dies at 97
Professor Bernard Bailyn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who reframed our understanding of colonial America, dies at 97.
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Nation & World
Recipe for a new Gen Ed course
Harvard’s new Gen Ed courses tackle subjects from racial justice and philosophy to music and engineering.
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Nation & World
Ann Blair named University Professor
Historian Ann Blair has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor. She will become the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor.
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Nation & World
Through artistry, toleration
“On the Nature of Things,” a poem written 2,000 years ago that flouted many mainstream concepts, helped the Western world to ease into modernity, author Stephen Greenblatt recounted.
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Nation & World
Ten professors named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows.
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Nation & World
Ye olde information overload
Before digital technology existed, scholars centuries ago beat their desks in frustration over being inundated with data too, according to Ann Blair, author of “Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.”
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Nation & World
The whither and why of books
A Harvard conference discusses venerable, vulnerable print and its fate in the digital age.
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Nation & World
‘Why Books?’
Thirteen workshops at Harvard book sites kick off a two-day conference, “Why Books?,” on the fate of print in a digital age.
