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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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Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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Benjamin Fagan deposited Blake and the Black Newspaper in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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A contribution to a forum on Martin Delany, Blake; Or the Huts of America, ed. Jerome Mcgann.
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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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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited John Boyle O’Reilly and Moondyne (1878) on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
Arrested 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 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
In 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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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Jackson Unchained: Reclaiming a Fugitive Landscape on MLA Commons 8 years ago
Slaves were allowed three day’s holiday at Christmas time, and so it was over Christmas that John Andrew Jackson decided to escape.
The first day I devoted to bidding a sad, though silent farewell to my people; for I did not even dare to tell my father or mother that I was going, lest for joy they should tell some one else. Early next…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Playing Hell in Charleston. Daniel Payne, Clementa Pinckney and the Struggle Against White Supremacy on MLA Commons 8 years ago
The men and women massacred while studying the Bible the other night in the Emanuel A. M. E. Church were, in their own way, raising hell. That phrase might seem ill conceived or even disrespectful but it can be invoked here to honor their courage and the A. M. E Church’s long tradition of challenging white supremacy. Their private prayer this w…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Re-collecting Jim. Discovering a name and a slave narrative’s continuing truth in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn a follow-up installment in 1839 to the anonymously authored Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave, the narrator testifies that a Charleston slave speculator known as “Major Ross” had sold his brother. The narrator notes that Ross lives in “a nice little white house, on the right hand side of King street as you go in from the country…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Re-collecting Jim. Discovering a name and a slave narrative’s continuing truth on MLA Commons 8 years ago
In a follow-up installment in 1839 to the anonymously authored Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave, the narrator testifies that a Charleston slave speculator known as “Major Ross” had sold his brother. The narrator notes that Ross lives in “a nice little white house, on the right hand side of King street as you go in from the country…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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Ryan Cordell deposited “Q i-jtb the Raven”: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these various parts require sustained bibliographic analysis and description. To adequately theorize any research conducted in large-scale text archives—including r…[Read more]
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