Archive for 'Education'
Battle Without End: Raúl Ramos on the politics of Texas history
Today brings us a guest post from Raúl Ramos, author of Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861. In his book, Ramos introduces a new model for the transnational history of the United States as he focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under American History, Education, Guest Bloggers, History, UNC Press Authors.
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The Long Civil Rights Movement conference videos now online
Last summer Rachel blogged about a new Mellon-funded project aimed at sharing scholarship on the civil rights movement. Last month, Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement (LCRM) sponsored a wildly successful conference here at UNC to discuss the project and possibilities for scholarly collaboration. LCRM director Sylvia Miller described the conference this way:
All of the [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2009 under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Education, Events, History.
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Baby/bathwater proposal, or a much-needed revolutionary idea?
As an interesting follow up to Friday’s post, in which I talked about publishing as one of those industries going through major shifts right now, Mark C. Taylor’s op-ed from Sunday’s New York Times, “End the University as We Know It,” proposes a BIG shake-up for universities in general.
Taylor, chair of the religion department at [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2009 under Education.
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Snips and snails and puppy-dogs’ tails
That’s what little boys are made of.
So what are fraternities made of?
Nicholas Syrett, author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities, will be talking about the long and secretive history of male fraternities on WUNC’s The State of Things at noon (and 9pm) today. You can listen live online or catch [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under American History, Education, Gender Studies, Podcasts, TSoT, UNC Press News.
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New Project Aims to “Publish the Long Civil Rights Movement”
Cool activist-esque things to do through the years: early 1960s: register African American voters in the South; late 1960s: protest Vietnam War/attend large-scale concert in upstate New York; 1970s: burn bra while reading Erica Jong; 1990s: wear a red ribbon on an expensive tuxedo; 2008: get involved in the electoral process.
Considering the upcoming election season, [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Civil Rights, Education, Environmental Studies, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, Health / Medicine, History, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
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