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• Robert Neer talked with the Irish radio program Davenport after Dark about Napalm: An American Biography, and the international public outcry that means the weapon is used now only under other, obfuscatory names.
• Sherman Cochran, co-author with Andrew Hsieh of The Lius of Shanghai, discussed the book on the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast.
• The Best Law Teachers study, subject of the forthcoming What the Best Law Teachers Do, was profiled in U.S. News & World Report.
• The influence of Nazi officials on Hollywood in the 1930s, uncovered by Ben Urwand in the forthcoming The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler, was discussed in depth at Tablet Magazine.

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June 17: The Heroic Tradition

Since the late 1970s Gregory Nagy has taught a Harvard course called “Concepts of the Hero in Classical Greek Civilization,” passing his enthusiasm for the classics on to thousands upon thousands of students. This spring, though, with an adaptation of the course being offered as a HarvardX MOOC (“massive open online course”), he’s likely topped those numbers in one swoop—and it’s not too late for you to join in. The course, now titled “The Ancient Greek Hero,” is a survey of ancient G…