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Pensees et Fragments Inedits de Montesquieu

Thursday, December 17, 2009

André Zucca

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André Zucca was a French photographer who worked for the German photomag, Signal , in occupied Paris during World War II. Most accounts say...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

les rides qui étaient pleines de joie

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Hélène Berr was determined to live her life authentically. She wished to be true to herself, her family, her friends, and her colleagues a...
Monday, December 14, 2009

a silence that rustles with memories

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Sunday, October 10, 1943 I am resuming this diary tonight, after a year's interruption. Why? Today, on my way home from Georges and Rob...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

meep

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Erin McKean has an interesting item in the Boston Globe on a controversial ban at a Massachusetts high school. The principal, Thomas Murr...
Friday, December 04, 2009

old cars

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A book by a heroic sociologist, Arthur Raper , concerns the living conditions of poor farmers in a Georgia county in the early 1930s. Wher...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Sams, Trollope, & Lange

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The system of Jim Crow laws and the culture of White Supremacy in the American South flourished from the end of the nineteenth century until...
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