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Each year since 1983 the American Council of Learned Societies has invited one of America's leading scholars to deliver the Haskins Lecture, in honor of Charles Homer Haskins, a distinguished scholar and teacher who was instrumental in the founding of the ACLS. In this volume, which commemorates the ...

Each year since 1983 the American Council of Learned Societies has invited one of America's leading scholars to deliver the Haskins Lecture, in honor of Charles Homer Haskins, a distinguished scholar and teacher who was instrumental in the founding of the ACLS. In this volume, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the ACLS, Douglas Greenberg and Stanley Katz bring together the lectures presented by ten of America's most distinguished scholars. Each lecture is a personal and intellectual glimpse into the "life of learning" of such leading scholars as Maynard Mack, Annemarie Schimmel, and John Hope Franklin. The lectures focus on self-reflection of lives dedicated to learning, rather than on scholarship in the usual sense of the term. Ranging from being forced to learn Latin to painful memories of war and racism, the lecturers all recount stories from their eventful lives. Each offers thoughts on the body of work he or she has produced and the forces, personal and intellectual, that have shaped it. The scholars bring something of their disciplines to the lecture, sharing not only personal anecdotes but their love of learning.

The Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture seeks to present an overview of the specific events and broad processes of Mexican history, society and culture from ancient civilizations to the present day.

This two-volume work consists of some 600 entries. A collaborative effort that has ...

The Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society and Culture seeks to present an overview of the specific events and broad processes of Mexican history, society and culture from ancient civilizations to the present day.

This two-volume work consists of some 600 entries. A collaborative effort that has involved more than 350 leading scholars from a variety of different countries, the Encyclopedia of Mexico makes a wide range of scholarship available to all those interested in the history of Mexico.

"As any well-organized, carefully annotated bibliography does, this work by Southern and Wright brings order out of chaos. The 2,328 entries identify books, articles, sermons, pamphlets, and broadsides, among other formats, all centered on black folk culture with emphasis on the manifestations of ...

"As any well-organized, carefully annotated bibliography does, this work by Southern and Wright brings order out of chaos. The 2,328 entries identify books, articles, sermons, pamphlets, and broadsides, among other formats, all centered on black folk culture with emphasis on the manifestations of that culture from 1600 to 1920 through song, dance, games, sermons, and illustrations. . . . This carefully done and useful bibliography is recommended for libraries on all campuses where there is an interest in the black experience." Choice

The artist's portrait, the photograph, movies, and TV show who we are, what we're like, and where we are in today's postmodern world. Hoffman shows how visual images describe and portray individuals and families and the society and culture they come from.

Concepts of identity and self as individuals ...

The artist's portrait, the photograph, movies, and TV show who we are, what we're like, and where we are in today's postmodern world. Hoffman shows how visual images describe and portray individuals and families and the society and culture they come from.

Concepts of identity and self as individuals and families are complex and changing but images from the artist, the photographer, the filmmaker, and TV producer can help us discover where we came from, who we are and why, and where we are in the maze of postmodern life. Katherine Hoffman explores portraits and images from ancient Egypt to the present -- more than two-thirds of the book covers the twentieth century, including images from art, photography, film, TV, and other media. The 75 illustrations are integrated with the text.

"It is of crucial importance to put a face to the concept of family in the twentieth century. Katherine Hoffman's wide-ranging study of familial imagery in paintings, photographs, films, and television is a fine introduction". John Davis Smith College

"An important book in a time in which the American family is heavily discussed and debated". Margaret R. Miles Harvard University