Letter from Ceylon Kingston to his mother, dated December 4, 1918

In Kingston\u27s letter to his mother, Kingston describes his observations in Paris, France. These include observations of several famous landmarks, the captured German cannons along the streets, the relatively little damage to the city, the many Americans headed home, and the upcoming visit by President Woodrow Wilson. This letter was sent from Paris, France

Alan Seeger letter from Paris, 1913

Alan Seeger, 1888–1916, American poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1910. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in battle in 1916. He is famous for his war poem, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death.” Classmate of T.S. Eliot. In this letter, Seeger talks about his arrival (in September, 1912) and accommodations in Paris, and comments upon the current political and spiritual culture of France.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1320/thumbnail.jp

McCormick, Gordon, 1894-1967 (SC 3714)

Finding aid and scans (Click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3714. Letter, 20 February 1951, of Gordon McCormick, Chicago, Illinois, to Duncan Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky. McCormick lists his recommended restaurants in Paris and London and offers general advice on travel. Includes a letter, 2 April 1952, from an associate of McCormick’s regarding a booklet, “Where to Dine in London and Paris,” that McCormick had suggested Hines take with him

Letter from Paris, France, May 27, 1945

Ralph attended classes at the University of Paris.https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/mouwletters1945/1015/thumbnail.jp

Letter from Ceylon Kingston to his mother, dated November 1, 1918

In Kingston\u27s letter to his mother, he describes his activities in New York City. These activities include arranging his trip to Paris, France to go work with the French Army and when she will receive his next telegram. This letter was sent from New York

The Burden of the Past, the Dialectics of the Present: Notes on Virginia Woolf's and Walter Benjamin's Philosophies of History

Writing in a Paris rife with war-anxieties, refugees and political plots, a stateless individual by the name of Walter Benjamin recorded on 11 January 1940: “Every line that we succeed in publishing today - given the uncertainty of the future to which we consign it - is a victory wrested from the power of darkness.” The fusion of desperation and mystical activism in the face of historical horror, expressed in Benjamin's last letter to Gershom Scholem, was echoed across the Channel. Only ten days later, Virginia Woolf - assailed by a mixture of historical, financial, creative and publishing worries - responded to a commission to write about peace by stating that the “views on peace […] spring from views on war.” </jats:p

Letter from Philip Mitchell to Christine Smith; December 22, 1941

From the Ellard-Murphree-Pilgreen-Smith Family Papers Collection. Letter from Philip Mitchell discussing his travel to and at marine training in Paris Island, SC.https://athenacommons.muw.edu/smithpapers/1177/thumbnail.jp

Crise d\u27Identite : The Push to Preserve National Identity in France

In 2010, France\u27s President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a Maison de l \u27histoire de fa France, a heritage museum, as reporters began calling it, to be opened in Paris in 2015. President Sarkozy\u27s speechwriter on issues of national identity has cast the museum as an answer to France\u27s identity crisis .\u27 The project\u27s aim, as President Sarkozy has articulated it, is to reinforce national identity, warning as well, It is always dangerous to forget your history.t It is exactly this fear, the fear of forgetting France\u27s rich history, which has spurred controversy and upheaval within the French republic. The extent to which President Sarkozy\u27s proposal has struck a nerve in the French population is evidenced by the extensive protest against the Maison, notably from the academic sphere. Several historians signed letters that were published in Le Monde, speaking against this promotion of official history and its propagation as a political tool. One letter points specifically to the creation and promotion of national identity as problematic to academic historical pursuits. The letter states, Si l\u27echelle privilegiee est celle d\u27une France rabougrie, c\u27est, en consequence, moins le resultat d\u27une reflexion pedagogique, savante et critique que de la mise en place d\u27un projet fonde sur la peur de l\u27autre et que Ie pouvoir exprime dans un mouvement de repli sur soi.,,3 For the historians who signed this letter, the national identity to be promoted by this museum would represent less a celebration of French history and more the assertion of a French identity that diminishes the multitude of different histories that compose an increasingly diverse national identity. Addressing exactly this concern, immigrant organizations have also staged protests throughout Paris, denouncing the propagation of an official French history that they argue fails to incorporate their stories, often with roots in countries beyond France, into the mosaic of French national history. The problem with the proposed museum, from their perspectives, is the legitimization of a singular national history, one that implies a definitive version of the history that defines France, and French citizens, in the past and as they exist today

Webster, William Stewart Cross, 1844-1922 (SC 135)

Finding aid and scan (Click on additional files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 135. Letter from William Stewart Cross Webster, Paris, Kentucky, to G. Fred Ziegler in London, England. Writing to his former Princeton classmate, Webster, a Presbyterian minister, tells of his pastorate in Paris, speculates on his future plans, including his hopes to marry, and gives news of other school friends

Dewey Ward Correspondence

Entries include the brief biographical information of a New York City author and her letter of reply to the Maine State Library that she had just been married and was moving to Paris, France, with a typed letter from the Maine State Library on receipt of Mrs. Dewey Ward Hervey\u27s novel set in Maine The Unsheltered for the Maine Author Collection