An Arkansas film historian has been selected to catalog an archive of rare outtakes from Charlie Chaplin's films. The collection offers valuable insight into the artistic process behind Chaplin's comic genius.
Even if youÃre a castaway, youÃre not lost ñ intellectually speaking. You now have MAPS ñ short for Modern American Poetry Site - a new aid for surveying and navigating the world of modern American poetry on the World Wide Web.
Visitors at the 18th annual Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois on Feb. 24 can learn the truth about beetles and see some cinematically inept renditions of them, too.
The University of Arkansas Press is bringing back Elvis this spring. This time, though, it's poets, and not impersonators, who pay tribute to The King.
1) Look for George W.'s image to form in the funny papers. 2) California legislative intervention may short-circuit energy crisis. 3) Bush's education plans need to cross socio-economic lines. 4) Educational vouchers may foster racial separation in schools.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for the Humanities will present its first Humanities Festival, "Jane Austen in the 21st Century," April 23-29 in venues on campus and around Madison.
Eighteenth century German literature is scrutinized through the lens of queer theory by Robert Tobin in his new book "Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe," published this year by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Cornell University Library's Core Historical Literature of Agriculture is an electronic collection of the most important agricultural texts published between the early 19th century and the mid-20th century which can be read in full online.
While grandma and grandpa may be attending Rigoletto or enjoying the music of Duke Ellington, their children and grandchildren likely are not, a recent study by Vanderbilt University researchers indicates.
1) Host city's economic boon just part of Super Bowl hype. 2) George W.'s inaugural speech may not be one for the books. 3) As Bush takes office, Clinton looking to leave his mark on Washington.
Book compares the political, economic and social experiences of the indigenous Monacan people of Amherst County, Va., with the late 18th century Scottish and Irish settlers of Wyoming County, W. Va.
New courses at Rhodes College examine the politics of gambling, sport and race relations in America. Students are also learning bad Shakespeare.
The source for Central Illinois singers seeking recovery from a range of vocal problems likely would be a University of Illinois music professor.
Anyone not satisfied with last year's millennial celebrations might take comfort from a mathematician at Williams College, who patiently insists that the new millennium arrives January 1, 2001.
Winter and the holidays elicit many different images from many different people.Here are some story ideas and contact points from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry praises the author of the first biography of John Wesley Powell in 50 years as the only new Western historian whose books he wanted to read more than once. Donald Worster's biography is a great saga about a most impressive American.
1) Forget candles for stress relief, try gifts of music or books instead. 2) Education professor suggests handmade over store bought gifts for teacher. 3) Debunking the myth of the one page resume. 4) Low oil reserves could mean high fuel bills.
Chief theater critic at the Chicago Reader, is winner of the 1999-2000 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The $10,000 prize is one of the most generous and distinguished in the American theater.
"The Dons and Mr. Dickens: The Strange Case of the Oxford Christmas Plot," by Purdue English professor William J. Palmer, was published this month by St. Martin's Minotaur.
James family papers on loan to Creighton University reveal the lives of author Henry James and his brother William. What has been written about the family and what has been revealed by the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University are very different.
In the 1884 presidential election between Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican James Blaine, the upstart Prohibitionist Party won enough votes in New York -- mostly from Republicans -- to throw that state to Cleveland, who won the presidency.
Centre College drama students are pursuing a cross-country Internet chat to prepare for an upcoming production. Each Centre actor is paired with a Rockhurst College student preparing for the same role, and the pairs are exchanging e-mail tips and questions.
A book by cultural historian Michael Steinberg showing the link between Austrian nationalism, Nazi ideals and the Salzburg Music Festival, just reissued in paperback, has garnered Austria's Victor Adler Staatspreis.
The Edgar Allan Poe Cryptographic Challenge contest has a winner. After over 150 years, Gil Broza of Toronto has solved the second of two mysterious ciphers left by Poe.
1) Book author detailing struggle for school control comments on possible Philadelphia school strike. 2) Bush and Gore's contrasting leadership styles. 3) Create a Temple news profile custom to your needs.
A Southern Methodist University historian's academic niche is seeing Native Americans through the eyes of Easterners who went West.
Who is Gao Xingjian, little-known winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature and Chinese expatriate? An authority on Chinese literature sheds light on the writer's background and explains why it is significant that Gao Xingjian won the prize.
More than 80 years after it was written, Carl Sandburg's 1918 prose poem "Prairie" is being reinterpreted in musical form, thanks to the efforts of another Illinois native son whose artistic ambitions have taken him far from his prairie roots.
A literary giant of 20th century American literature and native son of Illinois will be celebrated Oct. 28 at the University of Illinois Library.
Few American architects of the 20th century left such a broad and lingering imprint on the American landscape as Cass Gilbert, whose designs range from the Gothic-style Woolworth Building and United States Custom House in New York City to the U.S. Supreme Court Building.
A tiller of the soil in biblical times could have visited a farm in 1900 and felt right at home with the tools in the barn. If he moved his visit forward 100 years the ancient agriculturalist "might think he was on a different planet," say two Purdue University authors.
Vanderbilt is helping to ensure that the Holocaust is not forgotten by sponsoring a two-and-a-half-week lecture series that remembers this grim period in history. This year the focus is on the arts.
A one-of-kind, word-for-word, drawing-for-drawing handwritten copy of the original journals of explorers William Clark and Meriwether Lewis has come to public light for the first time.
Saturday, Oct. 21, The University of Tulsa presents its annual writing conference and workshop, led by authors such as novelist John Edgar Wideman, poet Thomas Lux, and cookbook and children's author Crescent Dragonwagon.
Carnegie Mellon University will host a conference from Sept.29 - Oct.1 that explores the last "100 Years of Mass Culture: Beyond Good and Evil."
There's something magical about an old-fashioned romance, especially those written about in the medieval period, a University of Missouri-Rolla professor explains in her new book "Magic in Medieval Romance."
The University of Illinois has joined a research and planning effort aimed at enhancing the landscape around the Taj Mahal.
Geoffrey Hill, a prolific poet and essayist, especially in the English traditions of moral and historical awareness, will receive the T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing presented by the Ingersoll Foundation during a symposium Sept. 23 at Belmont Abbey College.
Hospitals nationwide are enhancing the healing process through the arts. A $50,000 grant to the Society for Arts in Healthcare will help establish arts programs inside healthcare institutions.
Hofstra University will host a retrospective on Robert Anderson, best known for writing Tea and Sympathy, on October 26 and 27, 2000. The conference will not only feature the participation of Anderson but a number of famous playwrights, authors and actors, including Edward Albee and others.
When the JFK International Air Terminal opens in 2001, travelers will pass "Curtain Wall," a 600-ft-long sculpture created by Harry Roseman, associate professor of art at Vassar College.
Nearly a century after being composed, printed and performed, more than 22,000 pieces of sheet music are receiving new electronic life.
Perhaps one day the American slave ship Creole will become as famous as the Spanish ship Amistad, and Madison Washington, the African-American slave who led the rebellion on the Creole, will be as well known as Cinque, the African slave who led the revolt on the Amistad.
Lippold Haken's continuum fingerboard -- a new breed among electronic instruments -- was born not so much out of necessity as from the inventor's passion for music and penchant for electronics tinkering.
An Arkansas writer's first novel offers a story of self-discovery that includes the usual ingredients: dysfunctional family, amputation, blue horses of death, and a yellow elixir called "the Stuff."
1- Verdict still out on Philly cops; 2- Sports psychologist on parental sports violence; 3- Students create videos highlighting best of Philly for GOP; 4- Political protestors' rights and police regulations at the RNC.
Looking for a way to escape the summer heat with your children? Visit local art galleries or museums, said Toni Nordan, curator of the UAB Visual Arts Gallery.
The perfect off-the-beaten-track destination for patriots and music-lovers alike might be the Sousa Archives for Band Research at the University of Illinois.
To halt the decline in ticket sales, many metropolitan orchestras in recent years have been exploring new strategies for reaching out to their communities.
There's still a vital group of Southern writers hard at work, producing remarkable stuff, but they're no longer linked by common perspective. If anything binds them now, it's more fundamental -- a connection to the land, the South, and how they carry it with them, says Sidney Burris, a poet and professor at the University of Arkansas.
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