Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Storer College

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Following the Civil War, the Reverend Dr. Nathan Cook Brackett established a Freewill Baptist primary school in the Lockwood House on Camp H...
Monday, November 21, 2011

"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty"

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Daron Acemoglu writes in Esquire : We are the rich, the haves, the developed. And most of the rest — in Africa, South Asia, and South Amer...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Photographer Gordon Parks

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In a society segregated by race, Gordon Parks’ identity and experiences as an African-American man indelibly influenced his documentary phot...
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How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Jacob A. Riis

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From NPR , "Jacob Riis: Shedding Light On NYC's 'Other Half,'" by Robert Siegel, on 30 June 2008:Through photos an...

Filthy Cities - Industrial New York

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The Arts Desk : Dan Snow's toxic trilogy climaxed in New York, where he crawled voyeuristically through the rotten core of the Big App...
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Filthy 18th Century Paris

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Be transported back to the streets of Châtelet in the centre of Paris in the infamous steamy summer of 1788. The street is literally an open...

Filthy Cities - Medieval London

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From the UK Telegraph on 5 April 2011: Medieval London: 10 disgusting facts. Ahead of BBC Two's new history series, Filthy Cities , w...
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Reverdy C. Ransom Defying White Supremacy

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The Reverend Reverdy Cassius Ransom (1861 - 1959) Emily Perper, a staff writer of the Chautauquan Daily , writes: Social justice activism ...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Seasoning African Slaves By Thomas Clarkson

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AN ESSAY ON THE SLAVERY AND COMMERCE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, PARTICULARLY THE AFRICAN, TRANSLATED FROM A LATIN DISSERTATION, WHICH WAS HONOUR...
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