Professor Beiner told me about a historian who puts ads in newspapers asking for stories of Spanish Flu, and laboriously visited people in their homes and recorded their stories one at a time. “People remembered, they just needed to be asked,” Beiner said. In other words, the memories w...
The changes will be informed by the government’s response to Professor Graeme Samuel’s independent review of federal environment law. That review found the law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, has failed to safeguard Australia’s vulnerable plants, animals, and...
Since then our paths had crossed many times, both during my numerous research leaves in Australia, and when he was our guest as Regents Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in my department at U.C. Irvine. During the latter period we interacted intensively both at professional and ...
Davison denied having written such a letter; stating that it was the work of Professor Austin himself, after a conversation with her on the subject; though she affirmed that what was written "was in the main true." -- Times and Seasons, vol. i. p. 47. This statement of Mrs. ...
then I would like to defend a book which cannot defend itself by referring to one of the main and august literary critics who have seen the book as a failure in many ways: Mr. Leo Marx. Let us examine his contentions to see if they hold water, or if they might be like Huck’s ra...
Thus it appears that Martin Harris had told the Professor a straight story in regard to the matter, as it had been represented to him; that the book of gold plates, held together with rings, had been dug up in Northern New York; that they were being translated by a young man behind ...
TP:My work puts this belief in a broader historical and international perspective. One of my main conclusions is that very high population growth is the key force that has made the structure of inequality in the U.S. different than in Europe. In particular, inherited wealth has been less im...
There is a very good picture, which Professor Roscoe has been kind enough to prepare for me, of one of these atolls, which will enable you to form a notion of it as a landscape. You have in the foreground the waters of the Pacific. You must fancy yourself in the middle of the ...
Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, “That cannot exist. That is ...
Recentlya law professor suggestedediting from classroom teachings the details of the Dred Scott case in which the Supreme Court ruled a Black man could not file suit in court because he was not a citizen. The prof wanted to omit language “so gratuitously insulting and demeaning.” He said as...