by Patrick Vitalone | Oct 3, 2011 | The Public Humanist
In both Western and Eastern civilisation, Britain has paved the way for many cultural advances that are now commonplace. The island nation has influenced the world with its free-market economics, industrial technology, language, social customs, and so on. Despite...
by Chuck Gillies | Oct 7, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Several members of Five College Learning in Retirement have been spending the last several months organizing 5CLIR Sesquicentennial Symposium: Civil War Causes and Consequences, a Mass Humanities’ funded project that respond’s to the foundation’s...
by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Oct 13, 2011 | The Public Humanist
I visited Mary Beth Meehan’s City of Champions, a display of large-scale images of Brockton residents on the walls of buildings in downtown Brockton. Meehan photographs people she gets to know and comes across in Brockton, a town that is struggling with economic...
by Martin Newhouse | Oct 21, 2011 | The Public Humanist
I recently watched an interview with David McCullough on Book-TV, a marvelous weekend program on C-Span2 that I heartily recommend. The principal subject of the interview was McCullough’s admirable new book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, which, as its...
by Susan Eisenberg | Oct 26, 2011 | The Public Humanist
Those Dummies books can be really useful when you just need to know enough to keepa conversation going, have questions you’re embarrassed to ask, or when arudimentary level of knowledge is adequate. Building a Website for Dummies, HomeMaintenance for Dummies,...