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Rosemary Joyce Jupiter Hammon should be a household name

Rosemary Joyce, anthropology prof | 2/17/13 | 4 comments

But my guess is, many readers didn’t know his name a week ago– and some still don’t.

So let’s correct that. According to the Lloyd Harbor Historical Society, Jupiter Hammon was “America’s First Colonial Afro-American Published Poet”. Hammon was born and died in slavery, living from 1711 to after the American … More >

Samuel Redman Our last chance to record the voices of New Deal workers through oral history

Samuel Redman, historian, Regional Oral History Office | 8/24/11 | One comment

In a recent post for The Berkeley Blog, Professor Robert Reich proposes that the federal government respond to our ongoing recession by initiating a new Works Progress Administration (WPA). Almost seventy years having passed since the closing of the original New Deal “alphabet agencies,” recent oral history interviews can help … More >

Claude Fischer 18th-century Twitterfeed

Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 1/13/11 | Leave a comment

One topic of our times is whether and to what effect we are being drowned by information – radio, television, email, web sites, blogs (like this one), twitter feeds, alerts on our cell phones, and more. Every event – an airplane disaster, a politician’s slip of the tongue, the breaking … More >

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