Benjamin Fagan
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Laura Helton deposited On Decimals, Catalogs, and Racial Imaginaries of Reading on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
Entering Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, one still passes through the “catalog room,” an antechamber filled with rows of card drawers. Inaugurated in 1930 by librarian Dorothy Porter, this catalog of the “Negro Collection” served for much of the twentieth century as one of the only extant portals to African American…[Read more]
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Laura Helton's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
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Wesley Raabe replied to the topic How to Express Your Support in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Gothic Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoI support this petition. Or should I say perdition. Regardless, definitely I would like this to happen.
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Ryan Cordell posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHello all, I’m posting this CFP at the request of Leland Spencer, the editor of *Women & Language*. It can also be found online at: http://osclg.org/women-language/call-for-papers-women-language
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Laura Helton deposited The Question of Recovery: An Introduction on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
This special issue of Social Text takes as its starting point the generative tension between recovery as an imperative that is fundamental to historical writing and research, and the impossibility of recovery when engaged with archives whose very assembly and organization occlude certain historical subjects. Responding to recent debates among…[Read more]
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Laura Helton's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Laura Helton posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSince I’m on the ballot as a candidate for the Bibliography & Scholarly Editing Forum Exec Committee, I’d like to take a moment to introduce myself.
I am an Assistant Professor of Print and Material Culture Studies in the Department of English at the University of Delaware, where I teach African American print culture and public humanities. My…[Read more]
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Laura Helton's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Samuel Williams and His World on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
This is a digital exhibit about the life and work of Samuel Williams, a man who survived slavery in Charleston South Carolina and lived to write his memoir Before the War and After the Union, under “Sam Aleckson.” This exhibit and article is the first time his true name has been revealed .
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Du Bois’s Horizon: Documenting Movements of the Color Line on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
This article examines W. E. B. Du Bois’ work with The Horizon, an early African American Magazine.
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited On document supply in Ireland and the USA: experiences at the Boole Library, Cork University Or “What Goes Around…” on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
This article discusses the nature of interlibrary loan systems in the United States and how it differs from systems in Ireland.
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Susanna Margaret Ashton's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited “The Sense of That Crush I feel at Certain Times, Even Now”: Jacob Stroyer and the Defense of Fort Sumter in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn the summer of 1864, fourteen-year-old Jacob Stroyer was sent to work in Fort Sumter. He did not go willingly. Stroyer was a slave owned by the wealthy Mrs. Matthew R. Singleton and was sent from the large Kensington plantation outside Columbia, SC to labor for the Confederate cause. The Confederate Corps of Engineers called upon slave owners to…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited “The Sense of That Crush I feel at Certain Times, Even Now”: Jacob Stroyer and the Defense of Fort Sumter on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
In the summer of 1864, fourteen-year-old Jacob Stroyer was sent to work in Fort Sumter. He did not go willingly. Stroyer was a slave owned by the wealthy Mrs. Matthew R. Singleton and was sent from the large Kensington plantation outside Columbia, SC to labor for the Confederate cause. The Confederate Corps of Engineers called upon slave owners to…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited John Boyle O’Reilly and Moondyne (1878) in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoArrested for treason against the British Crown and deported to the penal colonies of Australia, the Irish revolutionary John Boyle O’Reilly managed to escape to the United States and within a few years became one of Boston’s most prominent political and literary figures, one of the best known Irish immigrants in the United States and one of the…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited A Corrupt Medium: Stephen Burroughs and the Bridgehampton, New York, Library in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn his eighteenth-century Memoirs, criminal Stephen Burroughs tells of his campaign to establish a library in Bridgehampton, New York. When the town elders discover the plan, they insist upon reviewing Burroughs’s choices. Undercurrents of other debates spill over into what would otherwise merely be some quibbling over book selections. In a series…[Read more]
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