![]() ![]() In the Past Lane (Oxford University Press, 1997) brings together writings from more than a decade, covering the broad spectrum of Kammen's recent interests, including the social role of the historian, the relationship between culture and the State, uses of tradition in American commercial culture, American historical art, memory distortion in American history and the contested uses of history in American education. Translated from German, a single didactic sentence, written in script in 1868 when Cornell opened its doors to students, declared: 'Go out into the world and testify to what is born, even in prison walls, from strength, from patience, and from loving toil.' The chair had been built on commission in a Prussian jail." In the small circular space behind a medallion displaying the carved bust of Ezra Cornell (located at the top of the chair, on the back), they discovered a closely folded slip of paper wrapped in tinfoil and tied with coarse thread. ![]() "In 1928 two artisans were asked to repair the official yet well-used president's chair at Cornell University. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell University, tells the story of a chair. ![]() In the introduction to his new book, In the Past Lane, Michael Kammen, the Newton C. ![]()
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