The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library held a drop-in session with archival materials on key documents included in the book “Yale and...
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The 1800 election shows there is nothing new about conspiracy theories, and that they really take hold when we don't trust each other.
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Morse code creator Samuel FB Morse made long-distance chats almost instantaneous with his co-invention of the telegraph, which he patented in 1847.
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Jedidiah Morse in 1789 described Newport, Rhode Island as the 'Eden of America' in the 'First Geography of the United States'
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On the occasion of Amherst's Bicentennial, we present an excerpt from Eye, Mind, Heart: A View of Amherst College at 200,...
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Today, Richard Hofstadter, who wrote “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” might target not just right-wing radio hosts but also the...
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UWinnipeg is pleased to announce that poet, novelist, and editor Garry Thomas Morse is the 2019 Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence.
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The painting of Samuel F. B. Morse -- like much of early American art -- is essentially unknown in Europe.
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Samuel Morse: The man who (almost) never succeeded It's been a long time since I did a photography history article. I generally prefer the...
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When something—say, a canyon or mistake—is truly enormous, the same old small time words like colossal and massive don't always get the job...
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