Historia : Tajemnice : Ciekawostki - Edukacja

It has often been observed that the internet is making distance irrelevant, and that it makes the world smaller. What has not often been observed is that the internet may, in fact, simply create new worlds that are ACTUALLY smaller. A significant data point in this regard is the Facebook approval request I received today from T. Mills Kelly, who asked to join the group I've created for American

This past October I attended the annual meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. I enjoyed the experience, giving a brief presentation on a panel dealing with the great books idea. My conference report is here. An associate (and friend) from the Great Books Foundation, Dan Born, also attended the panel. Dan is editor-in-chief of GBF's literary magazine, The Common Review.

Sometime back my wife brought to my attention an online resource, Film & History. This site is rooted in the print journal with the same title. That publication came out of the work of the Historians Film Committee, founded by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson in 1970. The history of this effort is located here. While this resource might be old news to some, what impressed me most about the

In October 2006 and January of this year, I reflected here on Chicago's own great books school, Shimer College. For both posts I was interested, perhaps even concerned, about the college's move from Waukegan to the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago campus. This brings me to a recent New York Times article on Shimer. Published November 4, the piece is titled "Small Campus, Big Books" and