James G. Basker

President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, and Founder of OxBridge Academic Programs.

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@WestportLibrary Looking forward to Thursday, 5/9, thanks #Westport News: http://t.co/YeCEX8xot8

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#Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world #Shelley, Percy Bysshe "A Defence of Poetry" @bookculture http://t.co/KJXCJerIvX

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http://t.co/uVgrum1Rda the dearth of civic #education is an urgent problem - it’s just too important to wait @GLIAmericanHist #commoncore

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Congrats James Oakes #Freedom National 2013 #Lincoln Prize winner! http://t.co/2l4ZVoxjp1 @GLIAmericanHist

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#Lincoln Prize 2013 @GLIAmericanHist http://t.co/adKWsbMMUZ Congratulations James Oakes and the GLI Civil War essay winners

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@GLIAmericanHist Insightful morning with Stephanie McCurry at Nightingale-Bamford #confederate #history http://t.co/UZBQ2IPKXt

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Thanks @KCURUpToDate and Steve Kraske for hosting me this week. For all who did not get a chance to listen: http://t.co/ZzOsxGpZ4j #history

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Ready for baseball season!?!... http://t.co/D1mMmPtsD6

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@KCURUptoDate Looking forward to discussing #American Antislavery Writings on Up to Date, April 2nd 11AM #education #KCUR

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@hallkctv5 Looking forward to discussing #American Antislavery Writings on It's My Morning, April 2nd 7AM #libraryofamerica #KCTV

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@AlexisDelCid Looking forward to discussing #American Antislavery Writings on It's My Morning, April 2nd 7AM #history #KCTV5

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@GLIAmericanHist Insightful article by @HenryLouisGates http://t.co/kReelafd36 #americanhistory

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Yes! Pack @HarperCollins "content doesn't need to be just words...We have to push to make [tech] integral http://t.co/U1vY2xhVj7 #ebooks

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#CommonCore: students need to be reading and writing across the curriculum, independently and proficiently

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Greenblatt #Pulitzer winner of The Swerve “literature is the most astonishing technological means humans have created to capture experience”

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...vocabulary size and life chances are as firm as any correlations in educational research - E.D. Hirsch, Jr. #education #literacy #history

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@CityJournal @GLIAmericanHist Literacy through History: Hirsch is right and we would do well to act on his insights! http://t.co/32XXYYXBUC

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Thank you @SchomburgCenter for the insightful conversation and cheers to future partnerships! http://t.co/8Xa81oBomX

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#Q&A right now! Have a question about slavery or abolition? I'll answer, live @SchomburgCenter

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These are the bones of Slaves;
They gleam from the abyss;
They cry, from yawning waves,
"We are the Witnesses!"
Longfellow 1842