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Arts & Humanities > 20th & 21st Century US History Historiography: The Progressive Era

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The historiography of American Progressivism is notable for the fact that historians have had difficulty agreeing on whom the Progressives were, what they believed in, and whether they truly constituted an identifiable movement. Clearly there were growing reform efforts in urban centers during the late 1890s and first decade ... More..

Arts & Humanities > Children's Literature Popular books for young children

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I have a four-year-old daughter who, luckily for me, has never seemed to get "stuck" on a favorite book for weeks at a time. This has allowed me to survey a wide range of picture books and early readers, and we have recently started in earnest on chapter books. This article will focus on the picture books, which may be enjoye... More..

Arts & Humanities > European History Britain's Irish policies: 1800-1834

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When the British Parliament created the United Kingdom with the Act of Union of 1800, formally conjoining Ireland and Great Britain after several centuries of colonialism and nominal Irish home rule, the British had high hopes that the union would bring the obstreperous Irish to heel as faithful and dutiful participants in th... More..

Arts & Humanities > British Authors Author assessment: Kazuo Ishiguro

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KazuoIshiguro is best known for The Remains of the Day, a novel about a butler in late 1930's England so constrained by duty that he is functionally paralyzed when faced with his master's apparent treachery (colluding with Nazis) and thrown into an emotional turmoil he cannot bring himself to express when the possibility aris... More..

Arts & Humanities > 19th Century US History The Gilded Age: When modern America was born

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The Gilded Age was the era when modern America was born. Roughly spanning the quarter-century between the end of Reconstruction around 1876 (when Mark Twain's book, The Gilded Age was published) and the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, this period saw nearly every aspect of life in the United States transformed in i... More..

Arts & Humanities > European History The Great War: Irish independence

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Besides devastating the European continent, the First World War dealt what would prove to be a mortal blow to European imperial ambitions. The Ottoman Empire collapsed completely, and although Great Britain, France and Belgium retained their imperial holdings until after the Second World War, in many corners of the globe the ... More..

Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Book reviews: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami

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I picked this book up after the NYT picked Murakami's Kafka on the Shore as one of the 10 best books of the year in 2005. Also, I have a co-worker who contends that Murakami is the most interesting writer in the world right now, and that The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle one of the best books of the 20th century, so I figured I'd st... More..

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