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Resistência, sobrevivência e associativismo: reinventando a vida nos territórios de escravidão moderna (séculos XVIII-XX)
(2021)Este dossiê apresenta resultados inéditos de uma agenda de investigação que problematiza a dinâmica das relações sociais, no Brasil, discutindo como as populações escravizadas e libertas montaram estratégias de sobrevivência e de reinvenção em territórios demarcados pela escravidão moderna por meio do associativismo. Os artigos se espraiam entre os ... -
Translations of Hexagram Names
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Hexagram Glossary - alphabetical
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Liberdade entre fronteiras: libertos no Território Indígena e no Sul dos Estados Unidos
(2019)This essay examines how the former slaves of Choctaw Indians, and in Indian Territory more generally, discussed and imagined freedom within this context by exploring their memories of the era within the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) slave narratives. These former slaves often described owners and overseers, and the announcement of emancipation ... -
Who Cares Who Made the Map? La Carta del Cantino and its anonymous maker
(2017)This paper explores the authorship of the anonymous La Carta del Cantino through an analysis of design signatures. Using high resolution digital copies of charts in ArcGIS, La Carta del Cantino is compared to contemporaneous charts. The long-held assumption that La Carta del Cantino was a surreptitious copy of the Portuguese king’s royal pattern chart ... -
Challenges and Considerations Related to Studying Dementia in Blacks/African Americans
(2017)Blacks/African Americans have been reported to be ∼2–4 times more likely to develop clinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) compared to Whites. Unfortunately, study design challenges (e.g., recruitment bias), racism, mistrust of healthcare providers and biomedical researchers, confounders related to socioeconomic status, and other sources of bias are often ... -
Beyond Failure: Rethinking Confederate State Policies on the Western Frontier
(2015-08-01)This paper was delivered at the Remaking North American Sovereignty conference held in Banff, Canada, July 30-August 1, 2015. -
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
(2015)In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure ... -
Drilling Down: Can Historians Operationalize Koselleck’s Stratigraphical Times?
(2015)According to Reinhart Koselleck, in every moment a congeries of “temporal strata” are effectively co-present, but not necessarily coherent, hence the “simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous.” Contrast this with the notion of a zeitgeist in which every aspect of a historical moment is integrated by some master principle. There are so many trajectories ... -
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 of Churches were also theologically committed to a new “Christian approach to the Jews” in the aftermath of the Holocaust. ... -
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 impractical to dig wells over much of the original city because of marshes and a high water table. A single aqueduct completed in the ... -
Remembering Henry: Refugeed Slaves in Civil War Texas
(2014)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 on African American Mobility in the American South, chaired by Richard Blackett with comments from Yael Sternhell. -
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.