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Archive: July 2016 (4 Posts)

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Meet the 2016 Kluge Fellows

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

We at the Kluge Center are very pleased to announce our 2016 Kluge Fellows. This diverse group of scholars hails from institutions across the U.S. as well as one scholar from Ireland and one scholar from Russia. They represent the disciplines of political science, romance languages, modern language and literature, art history, foreign affairs, and …

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Lincoln and the Supreme Court

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

We should think about the Supreme Court not as a separate and isolated institution, but rather as an integral and interconnected part of the federal political apparatus in the 19th century. –Rachel Shelden In her lecture “Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Politics of Slavery“, historian Rachel Shelden examined Lincoln’s relationship with the …

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Law, Religion, and Liberty: A Conversation with John Witte, Jr.

Posted by: Dan Turello

Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished group of thinkers. …

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Re-Imagining the Amazon

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

If you think about the way people occupied space then and think about the way people occupy space now, we might be able to come up with better strategies for managing the Amazon. –Anna Browne Ribeiro In her lecture “Imagining the Amazon, European Colonialism and the Making of Modern Day Amazonia“, geoarchaeologist Anna Browne Ribeiro …