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23. Peter J. Gomes | Of royal weddings and election sermons

Harvard’s Pusey Minister in Memorial Church and Boston’s/America’s iconic gay chaplain,  Peter J. Gomes,  Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, was an old friend whose essence I may well have missed...

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24. Eliotic Jews, JFK Catholics | Boston Symphony Orchestra

DS-T is a Boston-based,  Harvard-educated historian,  an independent scholar specializing in American art and architecture and Boston/New England studies. He  now regularly teaches a course at the...

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American Aristocracy | Toward a New History

BBH has partnered with Open Letters Monthly  to publish my monthly essay, the attraction being editing, copy-editing, and even a compositor! Your humble historian being neither editor, copy editor...

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American Aristocracy | Brahmin dreams | In search of the capital of the world

This months link is:  http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/brahmin-dreams-in-search-of-the-capital-of-the-world/

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American Aristocracy | Harvard pulpit | Boston Brahmin Liberalism

This months link is: http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/american-inheritance-harvard-pulpit-boston-brahmin-liberalism/

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American Aristocracy | Civil War | Pride and shame on the via Sacra

The link this month is:  http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/american-aristocracy-civil-war-pride-and-shame-on-the-via-sacra/

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American Aristocracy | Beethoven in granite | Boston Brahmin aesthetic

The kink is   http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/american-aristocracy-beethoven-in-granite-the-boston-brahmin-aesthetic/

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American Aristocracy | The Gods of Copley Square | Cornerstone

The link is  http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/american-aristocracy-the-gods-of-copley-square-cornerstone/

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American Aristocracy | THE GODS OF COPLEY SQUARE | Fanfare

The latest of my essays — chapters of my next book actually — appears as suaual in the pages of Open Letters Monthly in the August issue of the distiguished on-line arts and literary journal BBH has...

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American Aristocracy | GODS OF COPLEY SQUARE | CENTERPIECE 1

Byzantium re-discovered: An American in Venice and a somewhat forgotten Madonna (which breaks all the rules) in Copley Square; such is the tease for the latest chapter of my next and 11th book. The...

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