Why do we give to charity? Johns Hopkins philosopher J.B. Schneewind, an expert on moral theory and ethics, brings together colleagues to examine the question in a book he edited called "Giving."
The 100th anniversary of the birth of activist/singer Robeson will be celebrated at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on February 28 with a full day of activities including an academic conference and musical entertainment. Robeson's son, Paul Robeson, Jr., will keynote.
With ingenuity and humor, Hendrix College English Professor Chuck Chappell has managed to blend his desire to write a novel with his ability to produce scholarly work to create a detective novel that's also a college-level text on the works of William Faulkner.
Early in 1998 Hendrix College will break ground on six new residence houses, the first major step in implementing a campus master plan developed by the acknowledged leaders of "new urbanism," Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects and Town Planners of Miami, Fla.
Cornell University Professor of English Timothy Murray examines the relationship between early modern works and avant-garde theater, cinema and the new electronic and digital art forms in new book
While a frantic pace has become an accepted way of American life,John Hemingway says it is also a threat to democracy.
The federal government's recent attempts to settle claims relating to human radiation experiments during the Cold War doesn't address the problems of radium poisoning that occurred during the years before World War II. The plight of a group of women known as the "radium girls," who from 1910 to 1935 found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning, is the subject of a new book by a Central Michigan University history professor.
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