From my first posting on the Public Humanist blog:
Commentators, friend and foe, have made much of Barack Obama’s calculated appropriation of the legacy of Lincoln. What most struck me, as a book historian, was his decision to take the inaugural oath on the bible that Lincoln used in 1861.
In the Senate Chamber, Jill Biden struggled with a massive family bible (in Maureen Dowd’s catty phrase, “the size of a Buick”). The small “Lincoln” Bible, by contrast, was not Lincoln’s (still in his luggage) or even American (it was published in Oxford), . .
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Music: New Digital Collection: The Papers of Pierre Boulez, 1971-1977
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From The Violin Channel: To mark 100 years since the birth of the conductor
and composer Pierre Boulez, the New York Philharmonic has released more
than 13...
19 hours ago
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