Textured, human, cinematic
The past, close enough to touch.
Empires, revolutions, private letters, and the human decisions that changed everything.
Visual Direction
Archive paper, museum lighting, and layered timelines.
Animation style: Timeline scrolls and documentary-style fades.
The Mandaeans
4.4Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
History
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The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.
The Beginnings of National Politics
4.4Jack N. Rakove
History
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Author is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, class of 1964.
The Federalist
4.4Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
History
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The John Harvard Library edition of the classic American essay with an introduction by Cass Sunstein.
Latin, Or, The Empire of the Sign
4.4Françoise Waquet
History
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A wide-ranging & highly readable history of Latin between the sixteenth & twentieth centuries - a period when it dominated the civic & sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. Latin explores the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted & transmitted as well as the privilege it came to confer on those that studied it. Annotation. Though the once burning question of Latin's place in school curricula has been overshadowed by other issues, Waquet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) feels the need for a resolutely historical account of the language that is not a pamphlet or an exercise in special pleading. She writes a social history of Latin in the modern era, analyzing the uses made of it and the discourses concerning it. The 1998 Le latin ou l'empire d'un signe, published by Editions Albin Michel, is translated by John Howe.