Thursday, January 29th, 2009
ABC News Presidential Historian and George Mason University professor Richard Norton Smith has been busy speaking and writing about historical context for the presidential election and the inauguration. Along with his schedule of television commentary, he has written a number of articles offering historical insight into the current political scene. Here are two recent examples [...]
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Professor Martin Sherwin’s book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (coauthored with Kai Bird), has just been awarded the prestigious Duff Cooper prize, which is awarded annually to the best work of history, biography, or political science published in Britain. This is the latest in a long list of prizes garnered [...]
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The popular exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples” has hosted over 150,000 visitors to date. It features luxurious works of art excavated from opulent houses of the urban elite in Pompeii and from nearby imperial villas on the Bay of Naples, all illustrating the region’s importance [...]