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"Darwin's Legacy" on Academic Earth – The 19th Century Milieu

On August 25, 2009 By Rene Tyree

I find endlessly fascinating the global milieu of the 19th century. Academic Earth has recently made available an absolutely superb ten lecture course, Darwin’s Legacy. This was a special course organized by Stanford University. Its glue is

Civil War Historian David Blight to Serve as Judge for National Book Awards

On August 13, 2009 By Rene Tyree

The National Book Foundation has announced that Civil War historian and Yale history professor David W. Blight will be a judge for the 2009 Nonfiction National Book Award. Blight is “Professor of History at Yale University and author of many books on nineteenth century American history, including A Slave [...]

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The Best of Political Philosophy

On March 18, 2009 By Rene Tyree

Every free minute I get of late, I tune into Steven B. Smith’s outstanding course on Academicearth.org titled Introduction to Political Philosophy. I am re-reading Plato’s The Republic with a version on my Kindle 2 [...]

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Yale's David W. Blight Lectures on the Civil War Era Online at Academic Earth

On February 21, 2009 By Rene Tyree

A friend tipped me off on Friday to a EXCEPTIONAL site, AcademicEarth.org, which provides free audio-visual lecture series of some of the world’s best scholars.

David W. Blight’s entire Spring 2008 term course, The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, [...]

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