Daniel Scharf from the Oxford Trust for Contemporary History, who was involved in the application process, said it was an extremely significant site.
Documents disclosed by the opening of Soviet archives and though America's freedom of information legislation mean that contemporary history is continually being revised.
But that definition was a bit premature for the high school seniors in Reba Petraitis' contemporary history class at Kent Place School in Summit, N.
Programming covers a diverse variety of historical genres ranging from military history to contemporary history, technology to natural history, as well as science, archaeology and pop culture.
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Harriet Jones, director of the Institute of Contemporary British History, argues that the cold war also had a profound effect on domestic politics.
But hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race.
The company does that through its traditional Aboriginal dance company and its expertise in history, contemporary art and bush tucker (food).
Still, after surveying everything from the relentlessly high-tech library in Seattle to the mash-ups of history and contemporary event space in St.
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After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions at the Natural History Museum in London exhibits the work of artists and writers, including panellist Ruth Padel, inspired by another of Darwin's books.
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"The Perfume Lover" covers everything from the history of perfume to contemporary olfactory fashions.
The ideal city must be a vital, contemporary city, one that combines history with an energy and vitality.
Or you could look into the work of local poets, whether they are contemporary writers or figures from literary history.
My areas of specialty are international economics (particularly exchange rates), macroeconomics, history of economics, and contemporary schools of thought.
Wright Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pewabic Pottery and the Motown Museum.
"My career as an engineer and producer coincided with one of the most profound periods in pop music history: that of the contemporary singer-songwriter, " he wrote in his 2007 book Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music.
But Mr Tanner is the kind of journalist who goes to see for himself, and his linking of the contemporary Irish scene to the topography of Irish history, with its churches, murals and working-class streets, is a fine example of how to read the past.
His contemporary insights add little to his accomplished retelling of history.
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That this approach is especially hospitable to persons unfamiliar with contemporary art is a direct reflection of Gioni's own history as an outsider.
And without the victimhood, Tesla is just another brilliant mind floating between the folds of history, rather than a lightning rod for channeling contemporary resentment and sublimating it into a cultish badge self-reaffirmation.
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With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young people in the history of the world.
Mr. RUBALCABA: They were very serious about make us learn about the European heritage, the European musical tradition, the whole history, the Renaissance, Baroque, romantic Impressionists, Expressionists, the contemporary composers, but nothing about Cuban composers, even classical Cuban composers.
The End of History, at 55%, is the final installment of our efforts to redefine the limits of contemporary brewing.
The museum indeed, which makes a number of striking curatorial innovations such as the use of contemporary art and sculpture as settings for prehistoric artefacts, is anything but a one-sided verdict of Scottish history.
As Mr Evans describes, it was not just Algeria's history that militated against it being an inseparable part of the French nation, but also the context of contemporary geopolitics.
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