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Nicola Courtright

Nicola Courtright, who received her B.A. at Oberlin College, her M.A. at Yale, and a Ph.D at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University in 1990, has taught the art and architecture of early modern Europe in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College since 1989. She has also taught at the Univ....[more]

Nile Green

Primarily a historian of the Muslim communities of South Asia (India, Pakistan) from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, I also specialize in the wider 'Persianate' world, including Afghanistan, Iran, and the Indian Ocean region. By training a historian of religion, I have worked extensively on the history....[more]

Biography & Autobiography, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Philosophy

American historian and essayist Will Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He earned his undergraduate degree at St. Peter's College in New Jersey and went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1917 from Columbia University. While teaching at the libertarian Ferrer Modern School in New York, he had as a pupil a ....[more]