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Julian C. Chambliss deposited Legacies of Lynching: The Odyssey of Oscar Mack in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe presentation documents a community-based history project conducted by students to uncover the details of the reported lynching of Oscar Mack, an African American veteran reported lynched in Orlando. Reported lynched in Orlando on July 17, 1922, by a mob in Orlando, the newspaper accounts of the incidents gave little detail. In 2013, Julian…[Read more]
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Allan A. Tulchin deposited The Michelade in Nimes, 1567 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoOn September 30, 1567, members of the Protestant majority of Nîmes, led by many members of the présidial court, overthrew the Catholic town council. They arrested many leading Catholics, both laity and priests, who they felt perverted the word and will of God, and massacred an estimated one hundred of them; about one-third of the dead can be s…[Read more]
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Allan A. Tulchin deposited Church and State in the French Reformation in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoReview Essay on work (2004 to 2014) on French religious history, 1500-1650. The article discusses books including “Une concorde urbaine: Senlis au temps des réformes (vers 1520-vers 1580)” by Thierry Amalou, “Martyrs & Murderers: The Guise Family & the Making of Europe” by Stuart Carroll, and “Calvin” by Bruce Gordon, focusing on the relationship…[Read more]
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Allan A. Tulchin deposited Ending the French Wars of Religion in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn “Ending the French Wars of Religion,” Allan A. Tulchin considers why these sixteenth-century sectarian wars—eight of them—recurred over half a century and why they finally ended when they did. The existing literature emphasizes that the French state proved too weak to enforce order, and that each side believed itself favored by God, making…[Read more]
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Allan A. Tulchin deposited Same‐Sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Uses of the Affrèrement in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAnalysis of medieval and Renaissance era French non-nuclear household systems. Shows that such arrangements were common, and occasionally consisted of same-sex unrelated male couples.
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Henry Colburn deposited Roman collecting and the biographies of Egyptian Late Period statues in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoStudies of Egyptian Late Period statuary often assume that the extant corpus is a representative sample of the artistic output of the Twenty-Sixth to Thirty-First Dynasties (c. 664–332 BCE). This assumption ignores the various human processes that affect the survival of statues after their initial dedication. In particular, the Roman practice of c…[Read more]
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Jonathan Valk deposited “They Enjoy Syrup and Ghee at Tables of Silver and Gold”: Infant Loss in Ancient Mesopotamia in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe present study draws on interdisciplinary research to establish an interpretative framework for an analysis of the material and textual evidence concerning infant loss in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000-500 BCE). This approach rejects the notion that highinfant mortality rates result in widespread parental indifference to infant loss, arguing…[Read more]
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Jonathan Valk deposited “They Enjoy Syrup and Ghee at Tables of Silver and Gold”: Infant Loss in Ancient Mesopotamia in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe present study draws on interdisciplinary research to establish an interpretative framework for an analysis of the material and textual evidence concerning infant loss in ancient Mesopotamia (c. 3000-500 BCE). This approach rejects the notion that highinfant mortality rates result in widespread parental indifference to infant loss, arguing…[Read more]
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Glen M Golub deposited On Background To One Godz in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis Chapter provides simple but valuable insights to Upper Paleo abstract values such as Time, Life After Death, Social Roles, etc. Introduction to ‘Soft Cultural Institutions’. Understanding how abstract valuations become embedded into social structure is especially important in terms of understanding nonverbal language and symbolic sets.
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Glen M Golub deposited A Primer of Pictographic Systems (ver. 1.01) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis Primer provides a methodology for mitigating subjectivity when attaching meaning to preholocene rock art. It provides an introduction to basic syntax, grammar, and some vocabulary. It identifies four non-verbal languages of the Upper Paleo.
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Glen M Golub deposited The Greater Mysteries of Eleusis at Chauvet in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis is the five image hypothesis for the thesis One Godz which follows.
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Harald Lehenbauer deposited Die Geschichte des Archivs der Herrschaft Niederwallsee in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoGeschichte des Archivs der Herrschaft Wallsee in Niederösterreich
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Antonio Sotomayor deposited The Triangle of Empire: Sport, Religion, and Imperialism in Puerto Rico’s YMCA, 1898–1926 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the intersection of sport, religion, and imperialism through the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) as an extension of United States expansion into Puerto Rico after the Spanish American War of 1898. The YMCA’s emphasis on “muscular Christianity” and sports made it attractive to some locals who welcomed this feature…[Read more]
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Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]
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Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Postcolonial Reason and Its Critique Eds Purushottama Billimoria and Dina Al-Kassim Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2014 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPostcolonial Reason and Its Critique Eds Purushottama Billimoria and Dina Al-Kassim Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2014
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Paulo Vitor Airaghi deposited Entre a pesquisa histórica e o tratamento arquivístico: a organização dos arquivos pessoais do CEDOC como um estudo de caso in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnalisa a relação entre a Arquivologia, a História e a Biblioteconomia na organização de arquivos pessoais. Empiricamente o trabalho se concentra na experiência realizada por historiadores que, desde 2011, atuam na organização de arquivos pessoais que compõem o acervo do Centro de Documentação Cultural Eloy de Souza (…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Holy Mother, Swamiji, and Direct Disciples at Madras Book Review Prabuddha Bharata May 2011 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoHoly Mother, Swamiji, and Direct Disciples at Madras Book Review Prabuddha Bharata May 2011
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited The Story of Shyampukur Bati Prabuddha Bharata May 2011 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe history of the association of Sri Ramakrishna and the Ramakrishna Mission with Shyampukur Bati, Kolkata.
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Jason Heppler deposited Green Dreams, Toxic Legacies: Toward a Digital Political Ecology of Silicon Valley in the group
History on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis article examines the ways that geohumanities approaches historical research aids in the study of environmental and urban history in one of the twentieth century’s fastest growing American urban centers. It explores how San Jose typified the challenges of Silicon Valley’s rapid urbanization and desire to chart a new form of industrialisation…[Read more]
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