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Remembering Henry: Refugeed Slaves in Civil War Texas
(2014-04-03)These are the prepared remarks for a talk at the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting in Atlanta, originally entitled "Refugeed Slaves and the Confederate Rehearsal for Reconstruction." The paper was part of a panel on New Perspectives ... -
Elusive Neutrality: Christian Humanitarianism and the Question of Palestine, 1948-1967
(2014)This article examines the history of Protestant humanitarian interventions on behalf of Palestinian refugees between 1948 and 1967. Deeply concerned with Arab suffering, Protestant churches organized under the World Council ... -
Water and Social Space: Using georeferenced maps and geocoded images to enrich the history of Rio de Janeiro's fountains
(2014)Water infrastructure is essential to any city, but especially so in the history of Rio de Janeiro. Historically, Rio de Janeiro lacked easy access to fresh water. Not only was it not situated along a river but it was ... -
Failures to Compute
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Santa Barbara, Physics, and the Long 1970s
(2013-09)The adaptations of a group of Southern California physicists to the trying conditions of the 1970s anticipated some of the important 21st-century trends in the discipline. -
From Materials Science to Nanotechnology: Institutions, Communities, and Disciplines at Cornell University, 1960-2000
(2013-04-01)During the last several decades, interdisciplinary research centers have emerged as a standard, powerful tool for federal funding of university research. This paper contends that this organizational model can be traced ... -
'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford
(2013)Stanford, more than most American universities, transformed in the early Cold War into a research powerhouse tied to national security priorities. The budgetary and legitimacy crises that beset the military- industrial- ... -
Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map
(2012)Is the anonymous painted map of the world, dated c. 1506 in the Bavarian State Library, also known as the "Four Finger" world chart, or as the Kunstmann II, authored by Amerigo Vespucci? The map was a privately-held, highly ... -
How the Book of Changes Arrived in the West
(2012)In several respects the transmission of the i ching (or book of Changes) to the West parallels the process by which Buddhism and Daoism traveled to Europe and the Americas. In each case Western “missionaries” played a ... -
The Case of John L. Brown: Slavery, Sex, South Carolina, and the Whispering Gallery of Transatlantic Abolitionism
(2011-03-09)Please see http://mcdaniel.blogs.rice.edu/?p=105 for an abstract. -
His Brothers' Keeper: John Brown, Moral Stewardship, and Interracial Abolitionism
(Slavery and Abolition, 2011-03)Recent biographies of abolitionist John Brown emphasize his uniqueness and cast him as an anomalous figure in the antislavery movement. This article, however, makes the case for Brown’s representativeness by connecting his ... -
Mapping the Traveled Space: Hans Staden's Maps in Warhaftige Historia
(2009)By examining the map and map-like illustrations published in Hans Staden's Warhaftige Historia (1557), this article argues that the maps underscore the truthfulness of the narrator by reinforcing his role as an eyewitness ... -
Repealing Unions: American Abolitionists, Irish Repeal, and the Origins of Garrisonian Disunionism
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Our Country is the World: Radical American Abolitionists Abroad
(Johns Hopkins University, 2006)Antebellum abolitionists participated—through correspondence, print, and travel—in extensive transatlantic reform networks and often considered themselves citizens of the world. William Lloyd Garrison, the radical antislavery ... -
The Fourth and the First: Abolitionist Holidays, Respectability, and Radical Interracial Reform
(American Quarterly, 2005)
