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267:(1996-2006), he chaired the Education Committee, which was instrumental in developing the center's work with high school teachers. Upon his appointment in 2018 to the presidency of the Teagle Foundation, he said that his aim was "to continue and deepen Teagle's support of people and programs committed to bringing the gift of liberal education to all students -- not just the privileged few".
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327:, he attributed to the contemporary English department “the contradictory attributes of a religion in its late phase—a certain desperation to attract converts, combined with an evident lack of convinced belief in its own scriptures and traditions.” In subsequent articles, and in his book
320:(2018), a narrative account of how fugitives from slavery helped drive the nation to civil war, stresses the conflict between law and conscience in the minds of judges, writers, clergy, and politicians who tried to reconcile private conviction with public duty.
316:(2005), a critical study cast in the form of biography, portrays Herman Melville as a uniquely inventive literary artist who combined the moral gravity of the New England tradition with the irreverent energy of a New York sensibility.
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Humanities and, from 2005 to 2015, was the Mendelson Family Director of American Studies. He is the inaugural holder of the Alexander Hamilton Chair of American Studies, established at Columbia in 2015.
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magazine as "America's Best Social Critic." In 2006, he received the Great
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304:(1989), approaches New England Puritanism as a religious movement seeking moral stability in the context of nascent capitalism. In 1995 he published
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312:(1999) is an essay on spiritual longing in American life.
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616:"Night Terrors", on Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone,
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Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now
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564:"Night Vision", on Lionel Trilling,
393:Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
858:Cloud, John (September 17, 2001).
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263:While serving as a trustee of the
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489:Melville: His World and Work
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314:Melville: His World and Work
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630:"Kubrick's Human Comedy",
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550:"A.A. at the Crossroads",
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