If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. In this talk, Orville Schell discusses China's long march to the 21st century. Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Jonathan Cole has written the definitive work on the American research university. A monumental achievement, The Great American University explores the complex historical and cultural reasons for the international preeminence of American higher education, documents the profound contributions American research universities have...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. In 1986, a 2,000-year-old boat was discovered in Israel on the banks of the Sea of Galilee. The vessel is representative of the large fishing boats common on the ancient lake, and the type of boat used in the Gospels by the disciples of Jesus. It is also the type of boat used by the Jews in the brutal nautical Battle of Migdal in...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Generations of scholars have explored the writing of the Declaration of Independence--the philosophy informing Jefferson and his co-authors, the political circumstances behind its drafting, even the literary qualities of the document. We know far less, however, about how the Declaration was understood by early readers. What did...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper,...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Film historian Tom Gunning examines an important precursor to modern film: the magic lantern. He considers the eighteenth and nineteenth century's fascination with this new, very modern way of experiencing images and how this form of visual media ushered in the era of motion pictures. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. He was there from the start, sitting near President Nixon as the chief interpreter for Chinese delegations first visiting the United States in 1972. Since then he has often traveled with Chinese delegations as their interpreter and was called upon to interpret amid a 2001 international incident in which a U.S. spy plane was...

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to [email protected]. Neil Harris, the Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art History, first ran across "The Chicagoan" at the Joseph Regenstein Library more than 12 years ago. Although the eminent historian had never before heard of the colorful Jazz Age magazine, he figured that plenty must have been written about...