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If you have been reading The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 2, you know that the author has led a life that was far from boring. Between that and his larger than life persona, it is no wonder that a fictionalized Hemingway has popped up in several television shows and movies. Below is a list of five of our favorite moments of Hemingway on screen.
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Today marks the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, the celebrated Italian opera composer. To honor his legacy, we've created a playlist of some of his finest songs from eight of his beloved operas. To learn more about the composer and his operas, check out The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia, the essential reference on the life, works, and legacy of the operatic master.
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The letters in Volume 2 show a Hemingway very different from the one we see in his novels—a funny, irreverant writer carrying on casual conversations with his friends. His letters are peppered with 1920s slang and words he and his friends invented to talk to each other. Take our quiz and see how many you can figure out!
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William Milberg and Deborah Winkler, the authors of Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Developments stopped by Cambridge's Manhattan office and answered our questions about their latest book.
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In the wake of World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Celebrities like Ginger Rogers and Humphrey Bogart were important contributors who helped rebuild a Republican Party in California.
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We will soon know what Ernest Hemingway was writing from 1923-1925. But what was he listening to? We may never know for sure, but we'd like to bet that some of these popular tunes for the Roaring Twenties had his toe-tapping.
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Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC recently hosted Ron Collins and David Skover for a reading and signing of their new book, On Dissent: Its Meaning in America. In the video of the event below, they discuss: Just what is dissent? Americans claim to value it and strive to protect it, but can […]
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Dissent is such an intrinsic part of American culture. Our whole society is built around the idea of improving our values to better represent and protect our people. Books, speeches, articles, and essays have long represented dissenting opinions, but perhaps the most widely recognized and distributed form of dissent is music.
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