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02/14/20: Douglass Day @ SUNY Brockport
friday, february 14, 2020, noon-3pm @ kiefer room, drake memorial library, suny brockport. An international digital celebration of Frederick Douglass’ chosen birthday and Black History Month, focused...
View ArticleBook Review—Some Conclusions About Introductions
review of philip j. deloria & alexander i. olson’s american studies: a user’s guide & eric avila’s american cultural history: a very short introduction @ us intellectual history book reviews....
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january edition. Sounds Courtney Marie Andrews, Honest LifeWhitney, Light Upon the LakeWilco, Ode to JoyExeter podcast Words Rachel Kushner, The FlamethrowersIan McEwan, The Children Act Visuals Six...
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Enshrined
hg wells on the us constitution. America is pure eighteenth century. They took the economic conventions that were modern and progressive at the end of the eighteenth century and stamped them into the...
View ArticleR-E-S-P-E-C-T and the Social Movements of the Sixties
an educational history video share. For teachers and students in search of online teaching material, here is a half-hour exploration of the song “Respect.” This video and worksheet can be used to...
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february edition. Sounds Terms podcast Le ShowThe Story That The Crow Told Me: Early American Rural Children’s Songs Classic Recordings Of The 1920’s and 30’s Volumes 1 and 2After Midnight: Phish’s...
View ArticleAretha’s Occupy
mic check! forty years ahead of its time. “I’m about to give you all my money, and all I’m asking is that you return it honey.” So sang Aretha Franklin from the Wall Street sidewalk just outside the...
View ArticleDomestic Terrors
the search for home on homeland. Now in its final season, the Showtime series Homeland is, on the surface, about spy and intelligence work in the aftermath of 9/11, in the so-called War on Terror. It...
View ArticleBook Review—Lipstick Traces: The Idea of Smoking in American Political &...
where there’s smoke in the american past…there’s probably a cigarette. x-posted from USIH Book Review. The Books Sarah Milov, The Cigarette: A Political History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...
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march edition. Sounds 1865 Podcast Emerson String Quartet, Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Weyes Blood, Titanic RisingThis is the Kit, Moonshine FreezeTommy Jarrell, The Legacy of Tommy Jarrell...
View Article“Heroes”
i can remember standing by the wall(mart). I can rememberStanding, by the wallAnd the guns shot above our headsAnd we kissed as though nothing could fallAnd the shame was on the other sideOh, we can...
View ArticleStudent Showcase: Rochester, New York and the “Long Hot Summer” of July 1964
harry deVoe probes the historiography of urban civil rights uprisings during the 1960s. Professor Kramer’s comments: In the fall of 2019, students in my SUNY Brockport Department of History course...
View ArticleThe Utopian Moment of the Coronavirus Pandemic
covid-19 dares us to imagine a different future. It may sound counterintuitive, but the coronavirus pandemic is a utopian moment, maybe even a revolutionary one. In one fell swoop, the virus provided...
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april edition. Sounds Live @ National SawdustEES Quanrantine ConcertsZeena ParkinsIkue MoriClare ChaseOtis Redding, The SinglesTatsu Aoki and Friends, Hothouse GlobalJean Lambert-Wild, “Jazz...
View ArticleResounding Truth
two new podcasts remind us that while history involves longings for truth, not all historical longings are the same in the “post-truth” age. Two new podcasts, Wind of Change and The Last Archive,...
View ArticleLife During Covid-19 Digital Pop-Up Exhibition
student “reports from the field” of COVID-19’s early months in the US. My spring 2020 course HST 380: Digital Methods for Historical Projects shifted from our intended goal of creating oral histories,...
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anna martine whitehead, questions of home @ pivot arts (un)touched – artists in quarantine, june 2020. Anna Martine Whitehead’s short dance video, Questions of Home, part of Pivot Arts’ (Un)Touched –...
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may 2020 edition. Sounds Keep Your Mind Free: Damon Locks, Tomeka Reid [videos by: Nzingha Kendall, Foolish Mortal and Lucie Romero], Nicole Mitchell, & Jeff ParkerBethany Ryker’s A440 /...
View ArticleFolk Songs Containing Multitudes
bob dylan as art song classical music composer. I wonder if the significance of Bob Dylan’s late career, say since the fittingly titled “Love and Theft” in 1997, is less the lyrics or Nobel Prizes or...
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