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Richard Hofstadter’s stature, not only as a leading American historian but as a public intellectual who represented Columbia at its best in his time, is shown by the extraordinary honor done him when he was asked to give the commencement address in the spring of 1968. It is a long tradition at Columbia that the president, not an invited ...
First edition (publ. Knopf) The Age of Reform is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter.It is an American history, which traces events from the Populist Movement of the 1890s through the Progressive Era to the New Deal of the 1930s. The Age of Reform stands out from other historical material because Hofstadter's main purpose for writing is not to retell an extensive history ...
This online exhibition looks at the life and scholarship of the historian Richard Hofstadter, one of the towering intellects of the twentieth century and a formidable influence on the entire American historical profession. Through a combination of documents, photographs, audio clips, and accompanying text, this website conveys the significance and continuing relevance of Hofstadter and his ...
6 de oct. de 2020 · Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956–1965. By Sean Wilentz, ed.
Research interests. Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature, where he also directs the Fluid Analogies Research Group, nicknamed "FARG", at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. For roughly 25 years, the FARGonauts have been making computational ...
2022. Covered with Night, by Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton) A gripping account of Indigenous justice in early America, and how the aftermath of a settler’s murder of a Native American man led to the oldest continuously recognized treaty in the United States. See all History.
Richard Hofstadter wrote history out of a tense, but reflective, engagement with the world of ideas, politics and people in which he lived. There was no disjunction between his working and social lives; he carried on with his friends and colleagues an almost ceaseless dialogue that was always serious but often delightfully gay.
