A Tale of Two Colonists
How two people react to a situation can bring about startling changes in their lives. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell’s Abby Chandler considers British colonists in the 1700s.
In today’s Academic Minute, Hamilton College's Barbara Gold examines how Christians of the late Roman Empire created the modern concept of what it means to be a martyr. Gold is the Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton, and author of the forthcoming Perpetua: a Martyr’s Tale, due in 2012 from Oxford University Press. Find out more about her here. And a transcript of the podcast can be found here.