Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll

Wyandotte, or the Hutted Knoll"One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises," wrote James Fenimore Cooper in his Preface to Wyandott in 1843. The novel arrived at a time when a patriotic mythology about the American Revolution was developing, and Cooper's somber tale of the sufferings of an isolated family in upstate New York during the Revolution was not congruent with the celebratory stories then being told. One reviewer indeed objected to

Optical principles

art history

This chapter examines recent human clinical studies related to the efficacy and safety of soybean foods and food or dietary supplement ingredients including soybean oils

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Driverless cars are the future

These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours

This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000

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national and international expectations

It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authoritarian

founder of the famous banking family