Five influential writers on the Civil War and Emancipation will convene at Yale March 29 to discuss the conflict’s legacy over the last 150 years.“Radical” members of the South Carolina Legislature during Reconstruction. (From the Randolph Linsly Simpson...
Lisa Jardine, the Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, will deliver the 2012 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC), 53 Wall St., April 11–12.Jointly titled “The Two Cultures:...
In West African art and culture, the image of a long-necked bird with its head turned backwards to take an egg off its back is the symbol of a well-known proverb in the Akan language of Ghana, which teaches that in order to move forward, one must first...
THESEUSLovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the...