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	Harvard University Gazette: Arts stories
	The arts at Harvard University © Copyright 2008 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Falling in love with South Asian music

As a young boy, Richard Wolf, professor of music, liked to sit at the piano in his grandparents' home and invent short musical ditties.

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:01 EDT

Probing an unlikely friendship

Theirs was an unlikely friendship. One man was a black abolitionist, orator, and journalist who had been a slave from Maryland, the other a white politician from the backwoods of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. Their political viewpoints ran along highly different lines: One subscribed to radical activism, the other to the staunch traditions of Republicanism. Yet, in the years between 1863 and 1865, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln reached beyond the borders of race and politics to develop a strong camaraderie. Their friendship, says John Stauffer, professor of English and of African and African American studies, shaped the course of American history.

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:01 EDT

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