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Archive for January 20th, 2009
Hearing echoes of 1933 in 2009
Let’s Make a (New) Deal For historian Lizabeth Cohen, writing in Sunday’s Boston Herald, it’s natural to compare the circumstances as President Obama takes office to those of FDR. The stock market is spiraling downward, the financial system is in chaos, and every month more and more people are unemployed or find their work hours [...]
Happy 800th Birthday, Cambridge!
While we’re on birthdays… Saturday saw celebrations of Cambridge University’s 800th year. At the centerpiece of the celebrations – a very cool looking light show projected onto the Senate House. But isn’t the founding charter was from 1291? Yes, however, in 1209, communities of scholars were first established in Cambridge, then a former Roman trading [...]
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