In her new book, Syme's Letter Writer, Rachel Syme of The New Yorker explains how to write a delightful letter to a loved one. Unlike texting and email, old-fashioned letters, hand-addressed and ...

Threshold Concept #1: Connections between Looking and Writing The statement: It is not easy to write what you see. If seeing establishes our place in the world, art history is a tool to make sense of ...

They write their histories to avoid "presentism," and they value "contextualism." Bailyn's intellectual heroes, that is, do their best to shun the biases of the contemporary world and put their ...

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