Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...Americans with Disabilities Act, and enable non-expressive uses like comprehensive word searches, text mining, and data analysis. Baer's ruling represented a major victory for the HathiTrust, its affiliates, and fair...
California Creek, North Carolina
...effort to finish before deadline which would mean bonuses for the contractor, California Creek, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Inspector measuring depth of asphalt on I-26 shoulder, California...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Reverend Pompey Tinney, is listed as a free man of color in the 1820, 1830, 1840, and 1850 censuses in Georgetown and Washington Ward 3. Pompey, perhaps close kin of the...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...roller coaster" is remarkably similar to the titles of both patents." - Victor Canfield. 2001. "U.S. Rollercoaster History From Patents" from http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/v/a/vac3/history.html) A. Wood, Circular Gravity Railway (U.S. Patent...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...on our submissions guidelines page (http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/guidelines.htm). Please submit original manuscripts to the following address: Managing Editor The Southern Quarterly The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive #5078 Hattiesburg, MS...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...via the print edition on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays or in its online form at www.NOLA.com. Three Alabama newspapers (The Birmingham News, Mobile's Press-Register, and The Huntsville Times) also announced that...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...in the documentary arts, and ordinarily will hold an academic appointment in the appropriate department in Duke's School of Arts and Sciences. Read more: www.documentarystudies.duke.edu. DEADLINE: September 1, 2012. To...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Berea College. https://www.berea.edu/cgwc/the-power-of-sankofa. This series asks readers to "reflect on history and understand as completely as possible how…racism, classism, sexism, ageism…effect our everyday lives." Referring to Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard," McDaniels...
Image Credits
...Davis / Just Out. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. "In Memory of all Puerto Ricans," panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Display, Organization of American States Art Museum of the...