Gerrit Dou and the Art of Deception
Gerrit Dou was one of the most successful Dutch painters of the 17th century; the MFA recently received two spectacular paintings by the artist from the collection ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Brontë Country: The Story of Emily, Charlotte & Anne Brontë
Brontë Country tells a fascinating tale full of passion, romance and tragedy, giving the viewer a real flavour of life in Victorian Britain as well as a delightful ...
The Great British Channel
HistoryFest 2020 - A History of the Human Body - What's in a Beard?
This session aims to give you a taste of the slightly different sort of history you might encounter at university. You might have studied the history of medicine ...
Anglia Ruskin University
Bethune
A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army ...
NFB
Florence Nightingale at 200 | BL Live | The British Library
A bicentennial reflection on the life and legacy of one of Britain's most iconic heroines, hosted on Zoom. Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 and ...
The British Library
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Defining the English Language
Jack Lynch, professor of English at Rutgers University, discusses Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. Two volumes thick and 2300 pages long, Samuel Johnson's ...
WGBHForum
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | Audiobook with Subtitles
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been ...
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Stephen Kinzer ─ The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Skip ahead to main speaker at 4:51 Stephen Kinzer presents his new book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
William J. Mayo and the Rise of American Surgery
Keynote address given by Peter J. Kernahan, MD, PhD, FACS, Minneapolis, introduction by Don Nakayama, MD, FACS, at the Surgical History Group Breakfast ...
American College of Surgeons
The Art of Noise
With particular attention to the writing of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys, Anna Snaith explores the 'sonic-mindedness' of interwar modernism and its relationship ...
kingscollegelondon
Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise, the Last Works, and the Artist’s Reputation
John Walsh Friday, April 26, 2019, 1:30 pm In May 1890, after a prolonged breakdown, van Gogh moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a town 20 miles from Paris, to be ...
Yale University Art Gallery
In Our Time: S22/03 Dorothy Hodgkin (Oct 3 2019)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work and ideas of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994), awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for revealing the ...
In Our Time
Genius: Mind, Brain, and Molecules
In the 20th Century a remarkable intellectual synthesis was achieved among three previously distinct disciplines: Cognitive Psychology, Brain Science and ...
92nd Street Y
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age Leo Damrosch
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The Kansas City Public Library
Conference: Martin Buber, Philosopher of Dialogue
Day two of a two-day conference in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Buber's death, bringing together leading scholars from around the country ...
The University of Chicago
Watch Live: Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford Testify At Senate Hearing | NBC News
Watch live as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault while they were ...
NBC News
8. Sylvia Plath: The Oven Suicides, Part 1
Some people best know Sylvia Plath for her unusual mode of suicide; others remember her for as one of the first authors to write openly about her own mental ...
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Leon Botstein: Art Now (Aesthetics Across Music, Painting, Architecture, Movies, and More.)
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Big Think
Caregiving: Revitalizing its Place in Medicine
"Caregiving: Revitalizing its Place in Medicine" February 29, 2012 Arthur Kleinman, MD, MA, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of ...
UVA Medical Center Hour
Nigel Paneth: The singular science of John Snow
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Xavier F. Salomon: "The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto"
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The Frick Collection
Anton Chekhov
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FrogCast
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FrogCast
Dr Kat and the Manuscript of Lewis Caerleon
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Reading the Past
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Aequanimitas and Other Addresses | Sir William Osler | Contemporary, Medical | Audiobook | 7/10
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Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre | Agnes Mary Frances Robinson | Audio Book | English | 4/5
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Becoming Darwin: History, Memory, and Biography, "Stories of a Scientific Life"
2015 Yale University Dwight H. Terry Lectures delivered by Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University. Becoming Darwin: ...
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Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother: A Mini-conference. Session II
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Jost Hermand, "Fall of an Empire: Fate of Rudolf Mosse's Art Collection"
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Cleopatra
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Ernst Haeckel | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: Ernst Haeckel Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only ...
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Dr. André Churchwell: Creativity and Applied Physics
Dr. André Churchwell, senior associate dean for diversity affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, shared his personal insights on the role of art in all ...
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Biographies of Working Men | Grant Allen | Biography & Autobiography | Talking Book | English | 2/4
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Emerson Bowyer: "Sculpting History: David d'Angers and Romantic Monument"
In a celebrated passage from his Histoire de la Révolution Française, French historian Jules Michelet asserts that the revolution left no lasting monuments, only ...
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Kristin Hussey - Secrets in the Blood: William Harvey
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Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
James Sutherland History Lecture 2020: Where does civil and structural engineering come from?
The annual James Sutherland History Lecture covers historical topics related to structural engineering. The 2020 lecture was given by Steven Brindle, Senior ...
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Is Moral Progress Possible? Michael Ignatieff
In a world where violence and turmoil are more visible than ever, is it still possible to ague, as our Victorian forebears might have done, that human history is a ...
Hall Center
"Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor" Symposium
The simplified forms of Bill Traylor's artwork belie the complexity of his world, creativity, and inspiring bid for self-definition in a segregated culture. Join us for an ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The 2018 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Lecture with Michael Herzfeld
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Love Romances of the Aristocracy | Thornton Hall | Biography & Autobiography | Book | English | 2/6
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Biographies of Working Men | Grant Allen | Biography & Autobiography | Soundbook | English | 2/4
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