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Tag: Charles Maier
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Nation & World
Who is your favorite literary hero, villain?
Some of Harvard’s best-known readers, writers weigh in.
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Nation & World
The aftermath of wars
The battlefronts of World War II and COVID-19 may look very different, but long term consequences remain the constant
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Nation & World
It can’t happen here, probably
Authoritarianism appears on the rise in the United States, but fascism does not, panelists say at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Nation & World
The borders between us
In a new book, Harvard historian Charles Maier explores the boundaries that both separate and bind modern societies.
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Nation & World
‘Desperate but not hopeless times’
A Europe showing cracks in its unity now adds worries about U.S. ties to its concerns, analysts tell a Harvard panel.
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Nation & World
Toward total war
Experts on World War I gathered for a conference on the “great seminal catastrophe” of the 20th century.
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Nation & World
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective
Disco, drugs, and decadence? Not that 1970s. This book, by Harvard mainstays Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, and Erez Manela focuses on the decade that introduced the world to the phenomenon of “globalization,” as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways.
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Nation & World
The dark corners of ‘Cabaret’
In a panel discussion, Harvard scholars and performer Amanda Palmer examined the sinister sides and social significance of the American Repertory Theater’s new production of “Cabaret.”
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Nation & World
When fear took control
More than a dozen high school teachers from around the area attended a workshop this week focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing new points of view to bear on high school students’ understanding of the event.
