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How a great portrait painter turned bad

Edit The Examiner 29 May 2016
Historian Roger de Piles’ writing some 50 years after Van Dyck died, noted that while Jean August Ingres (a devote of neoclassicism) thought the bright palettes of both Van Dyck and Rubens were “very pleasing to the eye,” their colors were a “lie.” Well, certainly they were exaggerated ... As for that you-are-there looks of Van Dyck’s portraits, historian Horace Walpoole relates how the painter did it....

Partition made people slaves to bigotry: Jalal

Edit The Hindu 29 May 2016
The Pakistani-American historian, who was in Mumbai last week, talks about her book, The Pity of Partition — Manto’s Life, Times and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide, and other things in an interview with Sukhada Tatke. You have suggested that creative writers have done more justice to the Partition than have historians....

160-year-old tree in Philadelphia cemetery felled

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 29 May 2016
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 160-year-old tree in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery that sheltered famous visitors including presidents and Civil War generals has been felled. Civil War author and historian Andy Waskie, a board member of the Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery, says many battlefields have such "witness trees" that survived the fighting and are honored ... ....

Criminal Relic Hunters Deface Petersburg Civil War Battlefield Park

Edit Breitbart 29 May 2016
On the eve of Memorial Day, Civil War historians and battlefield preservationists were alarmed to discover someone had illegally dug numerous holes on the grounds of the Petersburg National Civil War Battlefield Park. The criminals were apparently hunting for relics buried long ago during some of America's most trying days ... ....

HBO’s ‘All the Way’ starring Bryan Cranston as LBJ

Edit The Examiner 29 May 2016
It's based on the biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson written by Johnson historian Robert Caro, the play and its movie focus on LBJ, as he was better ......

‘It’s a great time to be a tourist here’: Iceland prepares for sporting glory

Edit The Observer 29 May 2016
“They actually ate the gold,” said Magnús Sveinn Helgason, an economic historian who is turning the madness of Iceland’s boom and bust into a small profit. He takes tourists around Reykjavik on a “Walk the Crash” tour, explaining how 35 bankers and businessmen were jailed for a total of 80 years for manipulating markets and other crimes....

Looters reportedly vandalize an historic civil war battle site in Virginia

Edit Business Insider 29 May 2016
(Reuters) - Looters ripped up parts of Virginia's Petersburg National Battlefield in an apparent search for relics from a siege that led to the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the National Park Service said ahead of the Memorial Day weekend ... The blockade, led by General Ulysses S ... Bryce said the theft of battlefield relics hampers the work of historians by destroying archaeological clues....

Diane McKinney-Whetstone: Philly as part of a writer's soul

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 29 May 2016
The Chestnut Hill resident, who grew up in West Philadelphia, creates characters firmly rooted in the city and its neighborhoods, its parks and streets, its slums and mansions. Anchored by the city, her stories explore the nitty-gritty of life for ordinary people who live on either side of racial and class divides ... The 1860s, that is ... I'm not a historian, and research is the least-favorite part of the process for me....

POINT OF VIEW: The Memorial Day significance this election year

Edit Palm Beach Post 29 May 2016
Just last year we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, the worst war in human history ... Dick Winters of the 101st Airborne parachuted into Normandy 72 years ago, in 1944, in Operation Overlord. In the spring of 1945, American soldiers discovered the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps ... “We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for ... Christopher Kelly is an author and historian....

The words that bring us together

Edit Dawn 29 May 2016
Now, back to the event itself ... the earth to make, the difference ... Yet practice, perhaps, enabled the historians to put up a riveting show, full of one-liners ... “Partition was an unseen dinner guest every day,” said Navtej Sarna, diplomat and writer in a panel on Partition, moderated by writer Salil Tripathi, also with Anam, literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil and singer and musician Amrit Kaur Lohia, who ended the session with a song....

Dr Lister: or how Twitter learned to stop worrying and love @WhoresofYore

Edit DNA India 29 May 2016
Twitter historian (#twitterstorian) Dr Kate Lister speaks to Roshni Nair about the very popular @WhoresofYore and her quest to chronicle the history of sex and sex work ... She told the sick man to climb a particular tree where there was a nest containing many members, and allowed him to take any one he liked ... The result ... Lister is, after all, one of the few #twitterstorians (Twitter historians) with this degree of follower involvement....

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Thomas: A better way to run for president

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 29 May 2016
The frustration of many voters over the way presidential candidates are selected has come to a head with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the presumptive nominees of their respective parties ... Perhaps a coalition of historians, former presidents and former members of Congress, who are not known for extreme partisanship, could get together and design a new system by which we choose the nominees....

Oklahoma Military Academy has history of producing leaders

Edit The Oklahoman 29 May 2016
In its storied history, Oklahoma Military Academy's Reserve Officer Training Program produced thousands of military leaders including one who led the last cavalry charge in U.S ... Dollar, founder of the Hall of Fame ... During the 52 years of its existence, OMA trained more than 10,000 ROTC cadets with approximately 80 percent serving in wartime, said Phil Goldfarb, an OMA alumnus, historian and president of the OMA Alumni Association....
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