The other day during a much needed lunch break a few colleagues and I got into a conversation about social drug use. What else would a group of new Ph.D. students be talking about in the dark corridors of the academy! I think I started us on our downward spiral as I was complaining that [...]
Tagged drugsIn the late 1960s, Texas poster art, long an important mainstay of the state’s printmaking tradition, entered a fertile and innovative period in Austin. Drawing inspiration from the counter culture and psychedelic music movements, a new generation of Texas graphic arts designers created one-of-a-kind posters. Today their works are considered [...]
Tagged Poster Art, TexasWhich I wish to remark
And my language is plain
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
Which the same I would rise to explain.
Ah Sin was his name;
And I shall not deny
In regard to the same
What that name might imply,
But [...]
“Will Race Survive in the US? The Possibilities and Impossibilities of the Obama Phenomena”
By Professor David Roediger,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, Copenhagen
Center for American Studies
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Thursday, September 25, 2008
14:15-16:00, Room 100
This lecture, based on David Roediger’s shortly forthcoming How Race [...]
One of the most captivating presentations at the recent EAAS conference in Oslo was Kay Koppedrayer’s narration of the events at a Lakota sundance ceremony on the Pine Ridge reservation where American Flags were flown during the ceremony:
One year, four American flags flew over a Lakota sundance on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Raised on a [...]
An interesting project of history writing through music appeared last September. It’s a 3 CD compilation of American songs stretching from 1492 to present day. Added interest in the project may be offered by the fact that the executive producer of the compilation is former Attorney General, Janet Reno…
Reno has this to say about the [...]
I came across this JFK speech and wanted to share it here. Here he makes his argument that America should lead in space exploration and be the first to the moon. What’s also interesting is that Kennedy maps out Western and American technological history which is reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln’s “Lectures on Discoveries and Inventions.” [...]
Tagged History, Politics, TechnologyOne of America’s cannonical historians and among the most famous of his time, died last night of a heart attack. The New York Times has a very nice front page story here. The piece in the LA Times is also very good.
“Problems will always torment us,” he wrote, “because all important problems are insoluble: [...]