Sentence examples for introductory history from inspiring English sources

With our introductory history over, we head to the offices of Stewart's firm Seven Investment Management to get stuck in to the technical details.

Edith Hall, professor of Greek at King's College, London – has taken on the enormous task of providing an introductory history to all these Greeks, from the earliest bronze-age heroes to Christian converts in the third century.

There is spectacle (a special-effects theater with falling "snow," vibrating seats and an introductory history of the war shown on a 120-foot-wide screen) and solemnity (a careful survey of the brutality of the battles in the Pacific and the casualties of the European theater).

I assigned Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to my introductory history course this term for the first time.

That the Stonewall Riot, the Seneca Falls Convention, or even Toni Morrison can appear on syllabi in introductory history and literature courses results, in part, from the efforts of generations of scholars to foreground an otherwise neglected subjectivity as central to the American experience.

(Next fall the course will become Brown's introductory American history survey).

At Tirana's art academy, where Rama enrolled as a teenager, the last slide in his introductory art history lectures was Gustave Courbet's The Artist's Studio, a realist panorama of 1854 55.

Despite her undisputed talent as a conservator, she lacks political finesse and, after opening her mouth once too often, she feels like an "old never-was," reduced to "restoring rich people's frames" and teaching introductory art history.

This chapter describes the introductory information, history, current status, and future prospects of certification in clinical engineering, and gives a number of examples of different national, transnational, and global models.

PERSONAL HISTORY Introductory Note to Jack Kerouac's Journals.

The New Yorker, June 22 , 1998P. 46 PERSONAL HISTORY Introductory Note to Jack Kerouac's Journals.