 Author and historian Andrew Burstein’s new book is the Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss how Irving was a giant celebrity in the first half of the 1800’s, but most historians say he’s only a minor figure. There are only a few biographies written about him, and Burstein’s book is the first since 1935. Burstein calls Irving the Benjamin Franklin of the 19th century, and says Europeans saw Irving as an American original. |
Kathie Olsen is deputy director and chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation and former deputy director for science of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously she was chief scientist at NASA. She spoke at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia about the need to create a national science policy to guide the country through the next hundred years.
After the United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War in 1898, Americans weren’t sure whether they wanted constitutional rights to “follow the flag.” A series of five Supreme Court rulings from 1901 to 1922, known as the Insular Cases, reflected this ambiguity, as a combination of racist and populist reasoning in the decisions ensured Puerto Rico – relationship with the United States would remain unclear to this day, explained panelists at the Latin American Law Organization spring colloquium March 28.
of the Constitution and the original intent of the framers, said Robert Post at the biennial McCorkle Lecture March 29.