An Introduction to the Liberal Arts
The Individual and the Community
 
  
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    Thirteen Days links
"The Most Dangerous Moment in Human History": Thirteen Days and History (site by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in cooperation with the producers of Thirteen Days) 

 

Mini-biographies

John F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Nikita Khrushchev

Robert McNamara

Lyndon B. Johnson

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI

Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister

U-2 picture of the Cuban missile sites

 

 Washington Post 23 October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis headline

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Upcoming

 

Convocation

Thursday, October 20th

 

Professor Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former Weather Underground member, will speak on the role of the liberal arts.

 

 

 

 
 

"The unexamined life is not worth living" (Socrates).
 
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