Saint Louis Literary Award Lecture by 2001 Recipient, Simon Schama at 5:00pm, Saint Louis University, Busch Memorial Center. Simon Schama, 2001 recipient of the Saint Louis Library Associates Literary ...

Historian Simon Schama's new book, Foreign Bodies:Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations, recounts the pain and panic caused by smallpox, cholera and the Bubonic plague over the past two ...

No one would accuse Simon Schama of writing a blasé book, even when he ventures beyond his bailiwick. In his eloquent, discursive "Foreign Bodies," the art historian and Europhile turns his colossal ...

Simon Schama opens his latest book, "Foreign Bodies," with this reminder - in the end, all history is natural history. He tells how humans have contended with mass contagion and death through ...

Schama is University Professor Art and Art History at Columbia University, a contributing editor at The Financial Times, and the author of 16 books, most recently The Story of the Jews: Belonging, and ...

In “Foreign Bodies,” Simon Schama studies pandemics past and present, and how much — and little — we have learned. By Simon Winchester Simon Winchester is the author, most recently, of “Knowing What ...

TV historian Simon Schama has blasted Julien Fellowes's Golden Globe-winning Downton Abbey in an article for Newsweek. Schama branded the ITV1 period drama "cultural necrophilia" and was highly ...

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British ...

The American Future: A History is a four-part documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama which aired on BBC Two in the UK during October 2008, in the run up to the 2008 US presidential ...

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