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As she lies divested of every attribute of advantage, disfigured and forsaken, she is but a startling type of that more dreadful wreck, the man of power, or grace, and [...]

THE COLFAX MASSACRE--DUBBED A "RIOT" BY THE VICTORS--LEFT three white and at least sixty-three Black men dead on Easter Sunday 1873, making it one of Reconstruction's bloodiest racial confrontations. (1) [...]

The prominent roles played by John Wesley and George Whitefield in the eighteenth-century British book trade has been widely observed by scholars. Scholars, however, have hardly glimpsed how the various works authored by Wesley and Whitefield were discussed and critiqued in the era's leading literary periodicals, the Monthly Review and the Critical Review. As self-appointed -- and publicly recognised -- arbiters of literary taste, the Monthly and the Critical wielded tremendous influence in the marketplace of books and ideas, informing not only what and how readers read, but shaping public perception of the various issues discussed in the print media of the day. These issues included the two Methodist leaders and the movement they founded, which created its share of controversy throughout the eighteenth century. Although both the Monthly and the Critical routinely registered their antipathy to the Methodist movement in their reviews, their opinions about the revival and its leaders proved more nuanced than most anti- Methodist writers, who usually castigated Wesley and Whitefield in unequivocal terms. The reviewers' objective -- to offer ostensibly unbiased reviews of newly published books based on objective standards -- meant that they did not permit authors, whether pro- or anti-Methodist, to rail without reason or make assertions without backing. The reviewers thus found themselves navigating between their own anti-Methodist sentiment and their critical principles. This process resulted in a relatively balanced strain of anti-Methodist discourse while exposing how politicised the entire project of popular review criticism became when grappling with a complex and controversial topic like Methodism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This article examines the rhetorical implications of archiving technical documents by studying the erasure of Black women's mental health narratives in Virginia's Central State Mental Hospital in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This article seeks to examine how historical mental health documents characterize (or fail to characterize) Black women and their mental health. About the case: We examine Black women's mental health experiences through absences in the annual reports from Central State Hospital in Virginia (formerly Central State Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane). Situating the case: There is a dearth of work related to the unique experiences that Black women face when dealing with mental health challenges coupled with or compounded by a legacy of misogynoir. Methods/approach: We offer an inventive approach for reading rhetorical absences and provide guiding questions for employing the critical archival inquiry methodology. Results/discussion: In taking on this endeavor to learn more about how Black women's mental health was represented in historical archives, we learned a great deal, not from the text on the page of the documents but from the text that was missing from those documents. Conclusions: Technical communication scholars, especially those with an interest in inclusion and justice, must adjust their methodological orientation and their approaches to historical and archival research to include an exploration of what is missing from the archives. Technical and professional communicators have a unique skill set that is ideal for reading through absences and erasures in both contemporary and historical documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Events and Sightings department article covers the Edward Feigenbaum Personal Papers Collection made available by the Stanford University Library, the UNIVAC 120 exhibit now on permanent display at the Museum of Science at the Tokyo University of Science, and recent events surrounding the Kyoto Computer Gakuin 50th anniversary celebration. This issue also includes an obituary of Douglas C. Engelbart, best known for his work on pioneering work in human-computer interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TENS OF THOUSANDS of supporters attend every home game of both the Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC, emphasizing the city's enthusiasm for the teams. Despite presence of the game [...]

This contribution explores seventeenth-century cross-imperial behavior through a close analysis of the activities of several northern European businessmen involved in the Atlantic trade. Its primary aim is to investigate an international network of individuals who were willing to jump ship whenever a better opportunity arose in another trading enterprise. The focus is on Dutchmen who left Dutch trading companies in order to join trading ventures under Danish protection. This article also examines the motives of these businessmen, as well as the ways in which they transgressed imperial boundaries. In doing so, it demonstrates that cross-imperial practices already existed prior to the establishment of trading companies. Overall, the article demonstrates the importance of these businessmen and practices in understanding the international and cross-imperial character of the northern European trading ventures in the Atlantic. Keywords: Atlantic trade, Baltic history, cross-imperial behavior, business history, company history., IN January 1647, a ship called the Prince of Denmark, sailing under the Danish flag, appeared on the Gold Coast in west Africa. In doing so, it immediately caught the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Martin brothers, Stewart, Kenneth, and Willard (top), photographed much of what was newsworthy in Terre Haute, Indiana. The brothers covered such events as the 1918 [...]

The New York Times has donated more than 700,000 historical documents to the New York Public Library. The journalistic treasure trove recounts the newspaper's history under Adolph S. Ochs, his [...]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to make visible the connections libraries have to carceral systems and how library workers replicate carceral behavior through care. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses interdisciplinary research methods in the fields of library science, criminology, feminist studies, Black studies and abolition to examine the role of libraries as locations of carceral care. Findings: Libraries, through their history and funding as well as their roles within society as educators and social service providers, have the components necessary to act out carceral care; libraries by extension can and do participate in forms of carceral care. Originality/value: There has been much work on carceral care in the fields of social work and education, but to date, there has been little to no scholarship on how libraries work within the landscape of carceral care. This article builds upon the work of others to help understand how it applies to libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the history of the development a delegate sports federation in France for athletes with physical disabilities during the mid-1900s, and it mentions the French Framework Act Favoring the Disabled, as well as physical rehabilitation, competitive sports, and the creation of the Fédération Sportive des Handicapés Physiques de France in 1963. Founder Philippe Berthe's Amicale Sportive des Mutilés de France club is assessed, along with disability management.

IN APRIL 1983, Portland General Electric (PGE) donated a collection of photographic prints and negatives to the Oregon Historical Society (OHS), containing more than 7,000 images used to promote its [...]

ABSTRACT The John Cage Collection at Northwestern University is an extensive archive of manuscripts, correspondence, and other original materials documenting Cage's music, life, and ideas. Established in the early 1970s [...]

ABSTRACT Several years ago, Rutgers University's Special Collections and University Archives was given a checkbox containing fifty-six postcards advertising country and western music shows at venues around New Jersey. The [...]

The article focuses on the Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel Aviv, Israel that is available at the Stanford University Libraries website located at http://collections.stanfod.edu/telaviv. It states that the rich collection of books, magazines, and other historical materials were acquired by the university in 2005. It notes that the collection is from the Tel Aviv native and the most prominent antiquarian bookseller Eliasaf Robinson, who assembled the materials for forty years. It also discusses the history of Tel Aviv, which is documented in the collection. Moreover, it mentions that different digitalization equipments were used for each material such as the I2S DigiBook for the manuscripts and printed ephemera, while photographs are captured in 400 pixels per inch.

Poppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy. By JAMES THARIN BRADFORD. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xii + 281 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-3976-7. $95.00 (hardcover); [...]

The study of memory cultures often foregrounds the recovery of denied historical truths, with the recognition that social and cultural norms not only shape canonical versions of the past, but continue to be complicit in legitimised forms of forgetting and erasure. This article investigates the intersections between personal archives and other forms of cultural expression in acts of collective memoralization and forgetting. Using the personal archives of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary, the research introduces the concept of coloniality to studying Arctic memory cultures by examining the role of gender in the context of Arctic exploration. The article concludes that an understanding of the coloniality of knowledge and its connections to epistemic violence is crucial to the study of memory and historical legacy in the Arctic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Indiana State Library's Collections by County page is now complete. Visit http://www.in.gov/library/4610.htm and click a county to see the library's holdings relating to that [...]

Microblogging platforms such as Twitter have been increasingly used nowadays to share information between users. They are also convenient means for propagating content related to history. Hence, from the research viewpoint they can offer opportunities to analyze the way in which users refer to the past, and how as well when such references appear and what purposes they serve. Such study could allow to quantify the interest degree and the mechanisms behind content dissemination. We report the results of a large scale exploratory analysis of history-oriented posts in microblogs based on a 28-month-long snapshot of Twitter data. The results can increase our understanding of the characteristics of history-focused content sharing in Twitter. They can also be used for guiding the design of content recommendation systems as well as time-aware search applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The centennial anniversaries of the passage of the 19th Amendment (100 years in 2019) and the ratification of the amendment (100 years in 2020) will be a time of celebration. [...]

I thank editor Ray E. Boomhower for inviting me to flip through thirty years of Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. The hours spent perusing and rereading this quarterly popular-history [...]

ON SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2018, local researchers Greta Smith, Melissa Cornelius Lang, and Leanne Serbulo gathered at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, for a public history roundtable discussion moderated by Carmen P. Thompson, adjunct professor of Black studies and African American History at Portland State University. Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, these researchers have uncovered and analyzed new sources related to the history of housing segregation--and resistance to that discrimination--in Portland, Oregon. This is a record of that event., Housing Segregation and Resistance: An Introduction by Carmen P. Thompson THE CONTEXT of housing segregation in Portland, Oregon, and in the nation is slavery--out of which came the policies and [...]

Brief reviews for multiple web sites and internet references for historical materials made available in 2012 are presented, including the "War of 1812 in the Collections of the Lilly Library," found at http://collections.libraries.iub.edu/warof1812, "Baltimore 68: Riots and Rebirth. Special Collections University of Baltimore," found at http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr, and "Civil War Diaries and Letters. University of Iowa Libraries," found at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cwd.

The Georgia Historical Society is pleased to announce seventeen archival collections are now available for research: Georgia Hussars Records, 1902-1990s (MS 2400); Joseph Folchetti Collection of Bedlow, Halsey, and Parkman [...]

Games and other forms of play are used in today's libraries to attract underserved patrons, to introduce patrons to other library resources and services, and to facilitate engagement between library patrons. While many perceive gaming as a new library service, gaming services have been part of librarianship since the nineteenth century through chess clubs. During the Great Depression, libraries supported patrons with puzzle contests and developed circulating toy and game collections. Academic libraries built game collections for research and classroom needs, while school libraries collected and facilitated educational games to aid teachers. Video games have been used in libraries to help patrons learn to use technology and to bring groups of patrons together to enjoy shared experiences. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the different ways in which libraries have used games, toys, and puzzles over the last 150 years through both collections and services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alison Bartlett has been researching the ways in which post 1970s feminism can be remembered as a material movement, investigating the role of objects, museums, archives, and sites of feminist events. Her most recent book on this topic is Things That Liberate: an Australian Feminist Wunderkammer, edited with Margaret Henderson. She is an Associate Professor in English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, and has published widely on Australian feminist protest, Australian literature, maternal cultures and feminist pedagogy. Her forthcoming book is Flirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacy, with Kyra Clarke and Rob Cover. This article proposes the idea of feminist heritage sites as a way of remembering feminist intellectual and activist legacies in situ. Sites of feminist activism offer global positioning with longitude and latitude, somewhere to drop a Google Maps pin, and also offer tangible locations of intangible heritage that arguably shape civic life and citizenship. The article canvasses literature from interrelated disciplinary areas to propose two case studies as sites of feminist memory: a feminist tour from 1980s Perth in Western Australia where the author lives, and the Glasgow women's heritage walks in Scotland. The idea of walking proves to be significant as a way of moving through sites and producing knowledge, and is investigated as a feminist methodology and epistemology embodying a critical process of thinking through the recent feminist past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EARLY MOTION PICTURE photographers had to have sound nerves as well as an eye for the interesting and newsworthy. Their heavy wooden cameras had only one lens, so getting a [...]

Caption: PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PLAYING baseball in Portland since the early pioneers established the city in the mid-nineteenth century. The area's first organized team was even called the Pioneers. Several [...]

In the mid-twentieth century, Cho Lon was a powerhouse of Chinese newspaper publishing in Southeast Asia. A number of the major Chinese newspapers published there during that period are available in the Chinese Library of the National University of Singapore. The contents of these publications--editorials, commercial advertisements, personal advertisements, serialized novels--will be of interest to scholars of Sinophone studies and of modern Vietnamese history. Keywords: Chg Ldn, Chinese newspapers, Republic of Vietnam, Sinophone press., In quality and quantity, the Chinese press in Cho Lon was the best in Southeast Asia [in the 1960s], and third in Asia behind Taiwan and Hong Kong. Man Man [...]

In 1913, W. E. B. Du Bois looked back on the deal African Americans had made with white southerners and declared it a mess of pottage. In return for giving [...]