Anton Chekhov’s “profound” comedy about petty squabbles and thwarted love affairs in the countryside is the second production in the School of Drama’s 2011-2012 season.“The Seagull” is directed by drama school student Alexandru Mihail and translated by...
In the midst of his 1860 presidential campaign against Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas announced that he was leaving Washington to visit his ailing mother in upstate New York. Along the way, Douglas made campaign stops and speeches throughout New England.
President Obama’s unilateral decision to challenge the Senate over recess appointments will lead to an all-too-familiar melodrama: White House lawyers and their Senate antagonists will trade legal mumbo jumbo while an alienated public looks on with...
Francesca Trivellato, the newly appointed Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History, specializes in the social and economic history of Italy and Mediterranean Europe in the early modern period.Her most recent book, “The Familiarity of Strangers: The...