University in Exile: How refugees at the New School helped win WWII and transform American scholarship

Aug 22, 2018 |

L’Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes at the New School in 1942, via France-Amerique In 1937, the great German writer Thomas Mann suggested “To the Living Spirit” as a motto for the New School’s University in Exile. Since the Nazis had removed the same motto from the great lecture hall at the University of Heidelberg, the phrase would […more]

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