Month: December 2015
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Race and the Haitian Constitution of 1805
[Ed. Note: Today’s post is by Julia Gaffield, a professor of history at Georgia State University and expert on early independent Haiti. Her new book on the subject Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World was published in October by UNC Press.] At the heart of the Age of Revolutions were complex debates about individual and…
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Emma Josephine Brazier Collection: The Significance of a Scrapbook
In making a scrapbook it seems that one rarely considers the historical significance of what he or she is creating. All evidence says that Emma Josephine Brazier was nothing more than a normal girl and, because of that, it is interesting to consider the historical significance that her scrapbooks harbor. By collecting images of…
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If he could have kept it, he would have …
The first three series of the John W. Mauchly papers are now available for research! It feels like ages since I first surveyed the MANY boxes of Mauchly material that were filling my office space on my first day of work here in the SCPC. I can honestly say, without hesitation, that I have truly…
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Collected Condolences: the John L. Stewart Memorial Scrapbook
Written by Rive Cadwallader, archival processor Amongst the many sheets of correspondence, lecture notes and legal documents that make up the John Lammey Stewart papers is a hefty scrapbook created after Stewart’s death in 1927 and probably arranged by his widow, Mary. John Stewart was an educator whose professional career culminated in being appointed President…