The great flowering of American modern art since 1945 has ori- gins that go back much earlier-to the years after World War I, when writers, critics, and artists argued over the cultural health of the nation. Europe beckoned, and many, including Ernest Hemingway, fled to Paris. But others remained in Manhattan to do battle in little magazines such as Soil and Broom. Was Amer- ica in the 1920s a sinkhole of crass "commercialism," or were the new industrial machines, consumer gadgets, and...
Between the year 1734, when Ayuba bought it, like Olaudah Equiano (for Suleiman, a Maryland slave, pub- �£40) Others remained slaves until lished his Memoirs,' and 1854, when death. Three were rescued from Ali Eisami's Narrative2 appeared, a slave ships by British frigates (the score of Africa's children, dispersed slave trade was abolished in the Brit- by the slave trade, many of them la- ish Empire in 1807) and resettled in boring in servitude, overcame the Sierra Leone....
Most Americans now date the nation's current, unsolved energy problems back to 1973-the time of the Arab oil embargo, OPEC price increases, and gas lines. Yet both the long-term question of
U.S. energy supplies and the much-debated remedies of the 1970s surfaced repeatedly in Washington after World War 11. The failure of successive Presidents and Congresses-from the Truman days through the Carter era-to devise a coherent na- tional energy policy is a complex political story. Duke econo- mist...