God's Gift. A Living History of Dulwich College

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
P. H. Vellacott ◽  
Sheila Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Living History ◽  
History Of

A Hero to Be Remembered:EbonyMagazine, Critical Memory and the “Real Meaning” of the King Holiday

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 503-527
Author(s):  
E. JAMES WEST
Keyword(s):  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Living History ◽  
Black America ◽  
Senior Editor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Color Blind ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article explores the role ofEbonymagazine as a key staging ground for competing political and ideological debates over Martin Luther King Jr's legacy, and the struggle for a national holiday in his name. In doing so, it provides an important case study into the contestations between what Houston Baker has described as “black critical memory” and “black conservative nostalgia.” In response to attempts by Ronald Reagan and other politicians to reimagine King as an advocate for color-blind conservatism,Ebony’s senior editor, Lerone Bennett Jr., sought to situate King's legacy within a radical “living history” of black America. However, the magazine's broader coverage of the King holiday movement betrayed underlying tensions within its discussion of King's legacy, and fed into the magazine's role as an inadvertent frame for color-blind ideologies during the 1980s.

Progress in the formalisation of the Anthropocene GSSP

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Turner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Living History ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Depositional Settings ◽  
Quaternary Stratigraphy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collaborative Exploration

<p>The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) has assembled scientific teams to analyse stratigraphic successions, as potential stratotypes, in order to facilitate a formal submission to the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy. The aim is to seek ratification of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch starting in the mid-twentieth century. Stratigraphic records, including a range of novel materials, geochemical and biological signals spanning the mid-twentieth century interval of unprecedented human activity and industrialisation, are being gathered by international teams of scientists, working on eleven contrasting depositional settings from around the planet. Interwoven with this scientific process to define a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), from which a specific year for the onset of the Anthropocene will be established, is a decades long collaborative exploration of the Anthropocene between the AWG, Haus der Kulturen Welt (HKW) and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG).  </p><p>While the compilation of stratigraphic data to define a new epoch is as old as the science of geology, the demarcation of one within living history that signifies human activity as a global geological agent is unparalleled. Similarly, there is no precedent of a stratigraphic formalisation process being pivotal to the framing of so much contemporary social, ecological, artistic, historical and political thought. In May 2022 along with the publication of the results and data, an exhibition including a discursive and performative programme will occur at HKW in Berlin as a public forum for the scientific, cultural and socio-political impact of the geochronological research carried out by the international research project on the Anthropocene.</p><p>This presentation provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary and collaborative research project between the AWG, HKW and MPIWG. The talk will introduce the prospective sites and stratigraphy of the proposed successions and an update on progress towards the official ratification of the GSSP, as well as collaborative artistic and cultural work embedded in the process.</p>

In Living Color: Early “Impressions” of Slavery and the Limits of Living History

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1732-1748
Author(s):  
Drew Swanson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public History ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Living History ◽  
Mount Vernon ◽  
Jim Crow Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Embodied History

Abstract In the 1970s, American historical sites began to more thoroughly and critically interpret slavery’s history, with a few institutions employing living history as an interpretive form. At sites like Virginia’s Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg, the hope is that these historical “impressions” will engage audiences with a more authentic or credible representation of racial bondage. An earlier wave of living historical representations of slavery suggest the challenges and hazards of embodied history, however. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a significant number of southern sites employed African American interpreters who claimed to have been born into slavery, often on the very sites where they were currently working. Historical attractions used the “authenticity” and “credibility” of these interpreters to advance the narrative of a happy Old South. Historians have noted these performances as part of the sectional reconciliation of the Jim Crow era, but have rarely interpreted them as public history. Although the contemporary living history of slavery has different—and far better—goals than impressions of a century past, this long history of embodied bondage suggests the implicit dangers of interpreting slavery and race through living people.

Light Falling on England: History and Landscape in the Poetry of C. H. Sisson

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 406-435
Author(s):  
Kevin Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Linear Theory ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Living History ◽  
English History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future

AbstractThe defining characteristic of the poetry of C. H. Sisson (1914–2003) may be its complex understanding of time. Pervading his work is an incessant fascination with the history and landscape of England that hinges on a non-linear theory of time. Sisson imagines events past and present swirling together in eddies of dislocated English history. He associates the English landscape not only with a past still vibrantly alive but with moral virtue as well. A profound commitment to Anglicanism and monarchism also notably marks his poetry. Sisson's attention to the history and landscape of England substantiates and justifies his commitments to church and crown. This Drydenesque Toryism, rooted in the landscape of his poetic imagination, enables him to conceptualize time as an undisrupted flow in which history and the present merge seamlessly and offer comfort against an uncertain future. The poetry of C. H. Sisson is the poetry of hope, amid the desolation of the present, located in the living history of the past.

scholarly journals The Life Experiences of Twenty-One Women who Challenged Disability

1970 ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Jahda Abou Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Living History ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women With Disability ◽  
Actual Life

Studies related to disability in the Arab world are still limited and studies concerned with the status of disabled women are nearly non-existent. In order to fill the void I have conducted research work covering the experiences of 21 women with disability in seven Arab countries. By analyzing the living history of these women the study aims at deciphering the actual life conditions of women with disability in the Arab world. The objective is to highlight the areas of oppression and opportunities available to disabled Arab women in comparison with women with disability worldwide.

The living history of metallurgy

Metallurgist ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 650-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Karpushchenko
Keyword(s):  
Living History ◽  
History Of

Maintaining Boundaries, or ‘Mainstreaming’ Black History in a White Museum

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 177-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gable
Keyword(s):  
Black History ◽  
Living History ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Colonial Williamsburg ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, I explore ethnographically how enduring notions of racial ‘identity’ continue to make it unlikely that an ongoing attempt by America's largest outdoor living-history museum – Colonial Williamsburg – to tell stories about race relations in the antebellum era will be pedagogically effective. I focus on pedagogic practice among Colonial Williamsburg's ‘frontline’ because, while the professional historians ostensibly set historiographical policy and monitor historiographical product at Colonial Williamsburg, it is ultimately the dozens of guides who tell Williamburg's story to the visiting public. Moreover, I focus on the way guides talk about a particularly revealing topic – miscegenation – because it is a generally accepted argument among historians of antebellum America that the history of laws against miscegenation (which were codified in the eighteenth century), coupled with the history of their systematic violation, is at the root of the invention of distinct racial categories. To tell this story of ‘kinship denied’ at Colonial Williamsburg would have meant that a largely white audience and a mostly white ‘frontline’ would have had to rethink the category of race itself in ways perhaps more threatening to their ‘identities’ than to their ostensibly ‘black’ peers. In this chapter, I suggest that the way miscegenation remained a resisted topic at Colonial Williamsburg, reinforces, at the level of vernacular historiography, the very dichotomizing thinking about racial categories that the topic should have called into question.

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