Massive data archive The Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC),
headed up
by Stanford and Princeton academics, will will make hard-to-find
data on
conflicts and insurgencies available to the academic community.
Clayborne Carson, director of Stanford's Martin Luther
King Jr.
Research and Education Institute, comments on the history-making
unveiling of King's National Mall memorial.
Top-notch Soviet artists and writers cranked out propaganda and
boosted
morale during WWII. Now their posters, from the archives of the
Hoover
Institution, are on view.
Despite the pervasive perception of feminists as humorless, there
is a
long tradition of feminist humor, says English professor Shelley
Fisher
Fishkin.
Artist-in-residence for the Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Valerie
Miller reviews a novel documenting the strained post-war
relationship
between a Bengali brother and sister.
Marjorie Perloff, professor emerita of English, discusses how 9/11
has
produced a curious insularity when it should have instead prompted
awareness of a world outside our borders.
