Archive for September, 2011

Making of Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Final Installment

By ⋅ September 29, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

In the first video for Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust, we watched co-author Rebecca Boehling as she sat down with Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, whose discovery of her mother’s wartime letters inspired the book. We finish the video series with two more videos that provide an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of [...]

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Conversations with John Marburger: Constructing Reality

By ⋅ September 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

As Science Advisor to President George W. Bush and Director of Brookhaven National Lab, the late John Marburger continually received questions from teachers, journalists, political staffers, technicians, students and many others seeking to understand today’s new frontiers in the field. Before his passing this past July, he wrote a book to answer these questions.

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On Duels and Duets

By ⋅ September 23, 2011 ⋅ One comment

In this new video, we sat down with author John Locke to discuss Duels and Duets, which answers an age-old yet elusive question: why do men and women talk so differently?

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The Music of Hemingway’s Youth: A Playlist for Volume One (1907-1922)

By ⋅ September 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Hemingway witnessed an extraordinary number of historic events in his lifetime: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, to name only a few. Such watershed moments during the 20th century indelibly shaped his writing, and many of his classic works—such as A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises—would not [...]

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Charles Clotfelter in The Atlantic

By ⋅ September 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Charles Clotfelter joins the conversation on “The Shame of College Sports” in this month’s Atlantic. Check out his recently published book Big-time Sports in American Universities for more.

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