The nation's first regional Center for the Quilt, designed to document, preserve and share the history and stories of quilts and quilt makers, has been established at the University of Delaware, in cooperation with the Alliance for American Quilts.
The publication of "The Heritability of Attitudes: A Study of Twins" (J. of Personality and Social Psychology, Jun-2001), raises profound religious and philosophical questions. Commenting on this research are the Rev. Dr. Lindon Eaves, whose own twin research is cited by one of the study's authors, and Dr. Ted Peters, author of Playing God: Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom.
1) All Sixers all the time may not be a bad news strategy. 2) For kids in courts, rehab rather than scare tactics. 3) Keeping your cool while burning fat this summer.
Jon A. and Virginia M. Lindseth '56 have bestowed a major collection of material documenting the American women's suffrage movement to Cornell University Library.
African-American writer Richard Wright is famous for his books "Native Son" and "Black Boy." But during the 1950s, he produced four travel books that examined the struggles in Africa, Asia and Europe against colonialism and oppression.
With a bevy of summer comedies on the way, an Arkansas researcher points out how Communist themes have invaded many movie plotlines. Not to worry, though, they're there to soothe not subvert.
Dr. Robert Brent Toplin, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and author of History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past, is available to comment on Hollywood's latest treatment of the Pearl Harbor story.
An Arkansas researcher examines African American poetry produced between the two world wars and finds that for many, the American dream was a dream deferred.
Poland native Joseph Stevens survived the Holocaust by outsmarting the Nazis: the young Jew posed as a Catholic by day and took part in underground raids by night. He now recounts his wartime experiences and its lessons for today in his new book.
To celebrate the art and artistry of Jazz legend Louis Armstrong, and to honor the musical mentors that are a part of New Orleans' musical heritage, the University of New Orleans is hosting the Louis Armstrong Centennial Conference, August 2 -4, 2001 at the Louisiana State Museum.
In celebration of one of the founding fathers of jazz and the father of one of America's most celebrated jazz families, the University of New Orleans is hosting Satchmo to Marsalis: A Tribute to the Fathers of Jazz, a concert featuring Ellis Marsalis, his four sons, and his most well-known student.
World-renowned author Ellen Gilchrist has been appointed an associate professor in the University of Arkansas creative writing program.
Not much had been written about Jolan Gross-Bettleheim's and her lithographs. However, that has changed thanks to a Grinnell College student and curator of an exhibition of Gross-Bettleheim's American work at the college.
In the late 1930s and 1940s, five Louisiana State University art students literally painted history onto the walls of the university's Allen Hall. A restoration of this student artwork was one of the projects undertaken to celebrate the university's 75th Campus Jubilee.
The Univ. of Ark. will host the fourth annual meeting of The Space Between Society, an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the study of the art, literature and culture that emerged between the two world wars. Conference dates: May 17-19.
1)Mothers have worked for peace since 1800's. 2)Electricity demands may generate higher natural gas prices. 3)Open windows to keep cool this summer. 4)"Boot Camp" recruit about to graduate from Temple.
Perhaps the strangest creative writers' colony ever to operate in the lower 48 was more a prison than a haven, its director more a warden than a muse.
Of the thousands of items that journalist Shana Alexander has just given the University of Illinois, perhaps none telegraphs her career better than her box of press passes.
"Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign," newly published, is thought to be the largest published checklist of maps of Africa.
A century after his death in 1901, French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec still manages to capture the imagination of a public hungry for a taste of the licentious side of life in late 19th century Paris' Montmartre district.
Two Florida State University professors, classics Associate Professor James Sickinger and theatre Assistant Professor Laura Edmondson, have received summer stipends for 2001 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
1) Temple engineering professor suggests cleaning now to avoid over heating in the summer. 2) Sports psychologist offers tips for parents to let kids "play" ball.
Among the recently announced 2001 Guggenheim fellows is Louisiana State University Professor of English J. Gerald Kennedy. Kennedy was awarded the fellowship for his latest project, a book titled Inventing America's Story: Literary Nationalism in the Age of Poe.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Famous words by Franklin Delano Roosevelt repeated dozens of times by U-M history Prof. Sidney Fine in his second semester American History class. After more than a half century of teaching, Fine held his last lecture on April 16.
Powerful art exhibit tells stories of individual pain, recovery, emotional strength, and human endurance.
An advanced creative writing program has been established in the American heartland. The new University of Illinois program will offer, its planners say, a first-rate opportunity for the nation's most promising writers.
"Ebertfest," the off-beat festival focusing on films that Ebert believes deserve wider attention, brings the films and many of their producers, directors and actors to Champaign-Urbana to showcase them for general audiences, distributors and critics from around the world.
A team of multidisciplinary researchers at Illinois are pooling their talents on a project that will "build a virtual conducting-training environment that will help conducting students learn the craft."
Johann Sebastian Bach is widely regarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time. Now, a new piece of music is being credited to the composer, a popular trumpet fanfare, known as Abblasen.
1) Temple March Madness: How sweet (16) it is! 2) Winning big-time college coaches measure success beyond W's and L's. 3) Investors have psyched the market into overdrive.
When Jon Solomon views the Oscar-nominated "Gladiator," he sees one more installment in Hollywood's century-long love of the dramatic stories of classical Rome and Greece and the ancient Middle East. J. Douglas Canfield sees westerns in the same historical perspective. Both professors in the University of Arizona College of Humanities have recently published books that explore award-winning movies.
Some endeavors like medicine or clinical research are described as combining art and science, meaning they bring the facts and figures as well as the intuitive and emotional interpretation of them. The April 11 kickoff of construction at the University of Michigan's Life Sciences Institute melds art and science in a number of ways.
A symposium at Smith College will examine the role of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee which, through clandestine operations, rescued some 2,000 writers, artists, intellectuals and activists from Nazi-dominated Europe in 1940.
1) the hype surrounding Hollywood and the Oscars; 2) "The markets are looking for a bottom, and long-term investors can benefit from buying more;" 3) Class of 2005 hosted for campus visit.
In the mid-19th century the art of portraiture was threatened with obsolescence by the advent of photography.
An English professor at the University of Georgia has unearthed a Norse grammatical usage in a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- pushing back the first written evidence of a Norse word in what would become modern English by a century.
eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art, featuring 132 artists from 11 countries successfully opened this February in San Francisco for the beginning of a multi-city tour to be completed in 2002.
Art World To Rediscover Southern Art: The Ogden Museum to Feature Fine Art; New five story building and a historic library, built in 1888, to house museum. The entire museum will exceed 67,000 square feet of space for exhibiting the permanent collections; to open in October.
If wit is, as Mark Twain said, the poor cousin of humor, then that cousin is now in debtors' prison. Sure -- the quip is still revered in conversation, but in literature, wit gets no credit or respect.
Rare and often sentimental insights into the lives of ordinary Spanish-colonial women living between 1770 and 1820 were unearthed by an American history scholar at Southern Methodist University, who has prepared a study on the wills of 20 women from San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala, a frontier settlement in northern Mexico.
1) Conference to focus on economics of sports. 2) Falling stocks shouldn't mean rising stress, says Temple health studies professor. 3) New publication from Temple serves everyone.
On Thursday, March 8, amid worldwide celebrations of International Women's Day, Smith College will kick off a four-day international conference marking the launch of its new and widely heralded women's studies journal, "Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism."
One of America's most renowned poets, Louise Gluck is the winner of the coveted Bollingen Prize in Poetry. She is the Preston S. Parish '41 Third Century Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College.
1) Broadcasting professor looks at best and worst of Election 2000 coverage. 2) How the slowing economy has affected on-campus recruiting. 3) A slow and steady return to physical activity can win the weight war.
The 12 Holocaust survivors who tell their story in "Bitter Prerequisites" did not view themselves as victims. The author, William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt said he was curious and impressed with their ability to transcend their pasts and have successful lives and careers.
Just after the Civil War's end, almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, African-American lawyers began laying the groundwork for racial equality in America, according to a University of Arkansas law professor.
1) Colin Powell lends his voice to pedestrians at Temple University. 2) Forget Hallmark - make it personal this Valentine's day says Temple psychologist. 3) Building robots and meeting deadlines help bridge gap between students.
With the falling prices of digital technology, more households now have access to computers and digital cameras, but the paper and ink combinations found in most printers are not archival quality, says Derek Cracco, M.F.A., UAB assistant professor of art and art history.
Racial healing is proceeding at a faster pace in the South today now that cracks in white southerners' mythical view of history are allowing history as remembered by African Americans a place in the region's shared collective past, and signals a significant shift.
What would letters written by Sally Hemings reveal about her role as slave and mistress to Thomas Jefferson? There are no such letters. However, a Central Michigan University professor will debut the imaginery voice she has given Hemings before a national audience.
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