October 1, 2024 -- And So The Fourth Quarter -- 4Q24 -- Begins

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The Streaming Page: link here. Background.

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The Book Page

Several selections from the current issue of The New York Review of  Books, October 17, 2024:

• "Music and Memory. Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance," by Jeremy Eicher. Essay / review by  Peter E. Gordon.
• "The Fact Man: The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe," edited by Nicholas Seager and J. A. Downie. Essay / review by Clare Bucknell. The “handbook” is 710 pages long!
• "A Constitution Nowhere and Everywhere: The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom," edited by Peter Cane and H. Kumarasingham. Essay / review by Linda Colley.
• "Grant vs. the Klan. Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant," by John Reeves. Essay / review by David S. Reynolds.

Reviewers / essayists:

• Peter E. Gordon: the Amabel B. James Professor of History and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard.
• Clare Bucknell: a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
• Linda Colley: the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton.
• David S. Reynolds: a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, author of sixteen books, including Walt Whitman's America; John Brown, Abolitionist; and, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times. 

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Reading Comprehension Exercises

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