The silent complicity of German society in the slaughter of the Jews is described in Nazi Terror, a book by Eric Johnson, which is based on an analysis of original Gestapo crime files.
Through research on the FBI's interest in the late Irish writer James Joyce, a Kent State University researcher is unraveling an 80-year-old story that has all the elements of a top-flight murder mystery.
Hoping to clear up a 150-year-old mystery of an unsolved cryptograph, an English professor and a software company are sponsoring the Edgar Allan Poe Cryptographic Challenge.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that a Vermont filmmaker at Marlboro College will be awarded the NEA's only narrative film production grant in the U.S. for the year 2000 to support his production of Disappearances, a narrative feature film based on Howard Frank Mosher's award-winning novel.
1- School choice is causing white students to leave black and poor schools more than it allows poor kids to leave the worst schools. 2- Hold off on building that home gym until the kids are out of college.
The Billingsley of Bella Vista, Ark., have transformed their love of international culture into a $1.15 million gift to the University of Arkansas to help preserve music from cultures around the world.
A statistical method, stylometry, has been used to prove that a 1583 publication of Consolatio by Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is a forgery, as reported by The College of New Jersey researchers.
Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine is preparing to welcome the new millennium with a new artistic landmark to the West Lafayette campus this fall.
A gift of art for Christmas may be a bad choice in many ways, says Alan Atkinson, Ph.D., UAB Department of Art and Art History.
Scott McMillin, Cornell Professor of English, has been awarded the Sohmer-Hall Prize for outstanding work in early English theater and staging. McMillin shares the honor with his collaborator, Sally-Beth MacLean, executive editor for the Records of Early English Drama project at the University of Toronto.
In the eighth and ninth century, tea in China was more often brewed as a hearty soup than a hot beverage, says Alan Atkinson, Ph.D., UAB professor of art history and tea expert.
English-born prof at U. of Kansas trained actors to give Ang Lee's Civil War era movie, "Ride With The Devil," authentic sounds. Now he has a dialect web site.
Jurgen Herbst, professor emeritus of history and educational policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, outlines his ideological transformation in 'Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood Among the Nazis,' just published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Sidney Blumenthal, assistant to the president of the United States, will give a public lecture titled "Presidents and Democracy: An American History" at 8 p.m. on November 9 at Princeton University.
For "sentimental reasons," including deep gratitude to his alma mater, Leonard A. Slade Jr., an acclaimed and prolific poet, has given his personal papers to the University of Illinois Library.
Henrik Ibsen's 19th century drama "Peer Gynt" is about to be dusted off and brought to life again in an ambitious new musical production orchestrated by a University of Illinois music professor.
Fear for mankind's fate at the turn of a new millennium is nothing new, but its cause has changed. Today we fear a technological breakdown, 1,000 years ago Europeans feared the wrath of God, says a UAB professor of arts and humanities.
Rhodes College Professor Andrew Michta will be one of the featured experts at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC speaking on "Borders and Ethnicity: Solutions in the Balkans
Jazzing Up France: Music, Modernity, and Identity in the First Half of the 20th Century will be the topic of an Oct. 29 colloquium at the University of California, San Diego campus. The event, which will feature Denis-Constant Martin, will kick off a year-long Blues-and Border Music Series.
National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien, called the only major American writer with a coherent body of work that addresses the American experience in Vietnam, will deliver an inaugural reading for the newly endowed James McConkey Reading Series at Cornell University Friday, Oct. 22.
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution I. Michael Heyman will be guest speaker Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the annual Rhodes College Frank M. Gilliland Symposium. Heyman's lecture is titled "Museums at the Millenium."
Author and Rhodes College Professor of International Studies John F. Copper has just published two books on Taiwan. His 25th book, "As Taiwan Approaches the New Millennium: Essays on Politics and Foreign Affairs," provides a better understanding of the conflict between Beijing and Taipei.
A UAB associate professor of art says it is usually a combination of elements that make an outdoor sculpture pleasing.
An Arkansas historian's new book examines the fact and folklore of felines through the ages and finds that the curious creatures have made a considerable impact on human public health and prosperity.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will speak at Southern Methodist University in Dallas on October 12, 1999, as part of the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series. The topic of Archbishop Tutu's lecture will be "The Search for Spiritual Values in Today's World."
From disappearing frogs and Alaskan fisheries to Gypsy herbs and West African deforestation, filmmakers will talk about their artistic passions at the third annual Environmental Film Festival Oct. 22-28 at Cornell University.
When dawn broke in Istanbul, Turkey, after the country's massive Aug. 17 earthquake, it was apparent that the architectural survivors included some of the city's oldest historic structures. Among them a 12th century Byzantine church under study and renovation since 1996.
Colorado College is rolling out the red carpet as nine distinguished writers, all with widely differing aesthetics, come to campus for the first year of the Visiting Writers Series.
"Making and Evoking Memory" is the theme of Vanderbilt UniversityÃs 1999 Holocaust Lecture Series. Programs will focus on ways the Holocaust is memorialized collectively and individually. The series, in its 22nd year, is the longest-running University series on the Holocaust in the country.
HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 1 -- A distinguished group of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the arts and demonstrated courage -- by pushing the limits of aesthetic conventions, or overcoming resistance or personal hardship, or giving shape to ideas contrary to the social and political mainstream -- will be celebrated and presented with honorary doctorate degrees at Trinity CollegeÃs fall convocation.
Yoon-Shin Kim, a Korean "comfort woman" during World War II, will speak at Vanderbilt University Nov. 12 at 3:45 p.m. in Sarratt Cinema.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center presents an evening with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman Oct. 28 in the Jemison Concert Hall. Tickets are $500 per person for a cocktail reception, gourmet dinner, performance and dessert with Perlman.
The World premiere of an opera based on "O Pioneers!", Willa Cather's epic novel of life on the Nebraska prairie, will be presented on the Kimball Hall stage at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in November.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center and the Alabama Humanities Foundation present a Silver Anniversary Gala featuring Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 at the center. The gala celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
In what is believed to be the nation's first event to comprehensively examine the cross-cultural influences of contemporary Chinese artists, LSU will host "A Symposium on 20th Century Chinese Art: Boulder from Another Mountain" Nov. 2-5.
Haris Silajdzic, co-chair of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Stephen J. O'Brien, a 1971 Cornell alumnus and chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Institutes of Health, will visit Cornell University as professors-at-large in October.
University of Arkansas Distinguished Professor and world-renowned conductor Sarah Caldwell wants to take music unheard by human ears for over 1,000 years and bring it to life by transcribing it, performing it and preserving it for future generations.
St. John's University will host an all-day conference exploring "The Moral Dimensions of Poverty" on Saturday, October 16, on the University's Queens campus. Nationally-recognized experts will deliver keynote addresses.
Six internationally recognized humanities scholars will share their expertise with Central Michigan University audiences during a year-long speaker series. "Humanities at the Millennium: Transforming Conversations" will feature experts in the fields of literature, religion, history and philosophy discussing the role of the humanities in the university as well as how those disciplines might most fruitfully interact with American culture as a whole.
Violinist Midori, who first came to public attention at age 10 when she debuted with the New York Philharmonic, and her partner-pianist Robert McDonald will perform at Colgate University on Thursday, October 7, at 8:00 pm
Once called "the Princess of Black Poetry," Nikki Giovanni will be the featured speaker at Agnes Scott's College's Martin Luther King, Jr., convocation on Wednesday, Jan. 26.
Acclaimed evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould will present a lecture at Agnes Scott College at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8.
Modern dance master Paul Taylor will present the world premiere of his "Arabesque," set to music by Debussy, when the Paul Taylor Dance Company performs at 8 p.m. Oct. 15-16, in Hancher Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus.
Saxophonist Paul Winter and his Earth Band will present the world premiere of "The World Tree: A Musical Celebration" at Bucknell University Saturday, Oct. 23.
"Jorge Luis Borges at the Millennium" is the theme of a conference to be held at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Friday, December 3, to commemorate the centennial of the birth of one of Latin America's most influential and admired writers.
The traditional turf war between athletics and academics will call a truce Oct. 15-17 when The University of Tulsa presents a conference on sports and literature in its new $28 million sports arena.
Partners in the University of Arkansas' Latin American studies program have three new reasons to celebrate the program's 25th year -- new professors in foreign languages, history and anthropology whose research and teaching focuses on issues south of the U.S. border.
Many people don't consider themselves creative, but that's a misconception, says a UAB art historian.
Hancher is Sankai Juku's first American commissioner, with U.S. premiere of "Hibiki."
Some of the nation's best-known cartoonists will gather at the University of Iowa Oct. 14-16 for a symposium titled, "Drawing the Line: Political Cartooning under Pressure." Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Conrad will be the keynote speaker.
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