scholarly journals Johns Hopkins and Slavery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney Van Morgan ◽  
Stan Becker ◽  
Samuel B. Hopkins ◽  
Edward C. Papenfuse
Keyword(s):  
Complex Nature ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In ◽  
Religious Society Of Friends

Questions about Johns Hopkins, his family, and their relationship to slavery have been raised by Johns Hopkins University, most directly in the announcement made by President Ronald Daniels on December 9, 2020, that, based on newly discovered records, the university’s founder owned five enslaved people who lived and worked at his properties in Baltimore in the mid-1800s. This announcement and other statements by the university have caused many people to doubt long-held beliefs about Johns Hopkins’ character and his support for anti-slavery causes. This paper investigates three of the primary assertions made in December 2020 by examining: (1) whether or not Johns Hopkins’ parents were slaveholders, (2) whether or not Johns Hopkins opposed slavery, and (3) whether or not census and other records prove that he owned enslaved people. After a careful review of the evidence uncovered to date, we argue that (a) Johns Hopkins’ parents and grandparents were devout Quakers who liberated the family’s enslaved laborers prior to 1800, (b) Johns Hopkins was an emancipationist who supported the movement to end slavery within the limits of the laws governing Maryland, and (c) the available documentation, including relevant tax records, does not support the university’s claim that Johns Hopkins was a slaveholder. We conclude with a discussion of the complex nature of Johns Hopkins’ economic relationship with the institution of slavery and a call for further research on his business networks, investment practices, and membership in the Religious Society of Friends.

The Paradox of Quaker Theatre

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-228
Author(s):  
Benjamin Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Other ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Religious Society Of Friends

The title of Benjamin Lloyd's article reflects the apparent dissociation between, on the one hand, a spiritual religion distinguished by its lack of dogmatism and by non-liturgical forms of worship and, on the other, a mode of entertainment long divorced from the ritual religious forms in which it may well have had its roots, yet which continues to depend on preserving authenticity despite the rote of repeated performance. The author suggests that a communal seeking after inward enlightenment occurs no less in the approach of some of the most influential of modern theatre teachers – notably Stanislavsky and Grotowski – than at a meeting of the Society of Friends; and that the nature of Quaker worship may not, after all, be far removed from a striving for theatrical truth. In the series of ‘meetings together’ here described and analyzed, Benjamin Lloyd brought together friends and practitioners to investigate the nature and possible value of the relationship. The author has acted and directed in New York, Edinburgh, and Prague, and taught at Villanova and Princeton Universities. He presently teaches acting at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and his book, The Actor's Way: a Journey of Self-Discovery in Letters, was published by Allworth Press in 2006. He is a member of Haverford Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.

M. A. Ayuh. Made in Jamaica: The Development of Manufacturing Sector. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981. xxii+128 pp.

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Najam-us- Saqib
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Industrial Base ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
Caribbean Country ◽  
Bauxite Ore ◽  
Made In

Jamaica, known in the world for her rich deposits of bauxite ore, is a small Caribbean country with an area of 10991 square kilometers and a population of just over two million individuals. This beautifu11and, which was described by Columbus as "The fairest isle that eyes have beheld" has developed a remarkably diversified manufacturing sector starting from a modest industrial base. Jamaica's manufacturing industry enjoyed a respectable growth rate of about 6 percent per annum during the good old days of the euphoric '50s and '60s. However, those bright sunny days ''when to live was bliss" were followed by the chilling winter of much subdued progress. The rise and fall of growth have aroused considerable interest among economists and policy• makers. The book under review probes the causes of this behaviour by analysing key characteristics of Jamaican manufacturing sector and tracing its path of evolution.

scholarly journals Microscopy for Children

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-53
Author(s):  
Caroline Schooley
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Real Science ◽  
Curriculum Research ◽  
Early Decision ◽  
National Reputation ◽  
Science Educators ◽  
The University ◽  
Lawrence Hall Of Science ◽  
Made In

Precollege science education in the United States is not what it could, and should, be. Major changes are being made in the way science is taught, but delivering those changes to thousands of schools is an enormous task. Scientific societies are a major resource; they can organize and train member-volunteers to help teachers bring “real” science to the classroom. The Microscopy Society of America has become part of the effort with Project MICRO (Microscopy In Curriculum - Research Outreach). MICRO is putting MSA members, teaching materials, and microscopes in middle school classrooms nationwide. The idea began in 1993, but it has taken a lot of time and effort to implement.MSA's early decision to collaborate with experienced science educators at the Lawrence Hall of Science of the University of California at Berkeley was a wise one; their educational materials have a well-earned national reputation for excellence.

Surinam Plantations in Dutch Archives

Itinerario ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Peter Boomgaard
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Good News ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Indian History ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Plantation Economy ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University

The 1979 issue of Itinerario, (no. 2) opened with “A note on Suriname Plantation Archives at the University of Minnesota”, in which Richard Price of the Johns Hopkins University reported his discovery of some 2,000 manuscript pages on a number of Surinam plantations in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. This, of course, is very good news. It is perhaps still better news that the Dutch archives contain vast and almost untapped (resources on a 200-odd plantations! I am, however, certainly not the first tone to make this ‘discovery’: Mrs. M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz not only mentioned it in her Ph.D. dissertation “Asian trade and European influence in the Indonesian Archipelago between 1500 and about 1630”, but she even ordered part of the archives herself. It must be the unbridgeable gap between scholars interested in the East Indies /and those who study West Indian history, that her enthusiastic remarks on the availability of plantation material went unheeded. When nine years later Th. Mathews published his article “Los estuadios sobre historia economica del Caribe (1585 - 1910)”2, he mentioned the Dutch West Indies as a blank on the Caribbean map as far as economic (plantation) history is concerned. Since Mathews wrote his article the historiographic situation has improved only slightly, and it is an ironic comment on Surinam historical scholarship that tiny Curaçao's XlXth century plantation economy by now has found its historian, while the Surinam plantations are still in search of an author.

scholarly journals Self-splitting Abelian groups

2001 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Abelian Group ◽  
Direct Product ◽  
Free Module ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Direct Sum ◽  
The University ◽  
Torsion Free ◽  
Made In

G is reduced torsion-free A belian group such that for every direct sum ⊕G of copies of G, Ext(⊕G, ⊕G) = 0 if and only if G is a free module over a rank 1 ring. For every direct product ΠG of copies of G, Ext(ΠG,ΠG) = 0 if and only if G is cotorsion.This paper began as a Research Report of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Western Australia in 1988, and circulated among members of the Abelian group community. However, it was never submitted for publication. The results have been cited, widely, and since copies of the original research report are no longer available, the paper is presented here in its original form in Sections 1 to 5. In Section 6, I survey the progress that has been made in the topic since 1988.

Library Impact Practice Brief: Freshman Fellows: Implementing and Assessing a First-Year Primary-Source Research Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Burri ◽  
Joshua Everett ◽  
Heidi Herr ◽  
Jessica Keyes
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
First Year ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
College Career ◽  
Library Impact ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Impact Framework

This practice brief describes the assessment project undertaken by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative to address the question “(How) do the library’s special collections specifically support and promote teaching, learning, and research?” The research team investigated how the Freshman Fellows experience impacted the fellows’ studies and co-curricular activities at the university. Freshmen Fellows, established in 2016, is a signature opportunity to expose students to primary-source collections early in their college career by pairing four fellows with four curators on individual research projects. The program graduated its first cohort of fellows in spring 2020. The brief includes a semi-structured interview guide, program guidelines, and a primary research rubric.

ACCURACY ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION MODELLING METHODS FOR HERITAGE OBJECTS DIGITIZED CONSIDERING PHOTOGRAMMETRIC DATA / SKIRTINGŲ RELJEFO MODELIAVIMO METODŲ, SUDARYTŲ PAGAL PAVELDO OBJEKTO FOTOGRAMETRINIUS DUOMENIS, TIKSLUMO ANALIZĖ / АНАЛИЗ ТОЧНОСТИ РАЗНЫХ МЕТОДОВ МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЯ ПОВЕРХНОСТИ, СОСТАВЛЕННЫХ В СООТВЕТСТВИИ С ФОТОГРАММЕТРИЧЕСКИМИ ДАННЫМИ ОБЪЕКТА АРХИТЕКТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Jūratė Sužiedelytė-Visockienė ◽  
Aušra Kumetaitienė ◽  
Renata Bagdžiūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Initial Data ◽  
Surface Reconstruction ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Accuracy Analysis ◽  
Triangulated Irregular Network ◽  
Modelling Analysis ◽  
The University ◽  
Modelling Methods ◽  
Made In

The article explains the possibilities of reconstructing heritage objects. Measurements were made using photogrammetric data received from digital images taken by the Canon EOS 1D Mark III digital camera calibrated in the Institute of Photogrammetry at the University of Bonn (Germany). The images were received applying the PhotoMod photogrammetric software produced in Russia. TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network) and an orthophoto map were made in the investigated objects. The modelling analysis of TIN data was made using ArcGIS software. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the surface of heritage objects referring to photogrammetric data, to investigate accuracy dependence of heritage object reflection on the methods of preparing the initial data and to evaluate the influence of modelling methods on to the accuracy of reconstructing heritage objects when modelling photogrammetric data and selecting the most appropriate method of modelling parameters to restore the most accurate surface of the heritage object. Santrauka Straipsnyje aprašomos paveldo – architektūrinio objekto paviršiaus modeliavimo galimybės. Modeliavimas atliktas pagal fotogrametrinius objekto duomenis–skaitmenines nuotraukas, darytas kalibruota fotokamera Canon EOS 1D Mark III. Kamera kalibruota Bonos universiteto Fotogrametrijos institute (Vokietija). Objekto nuotraukos apdorotos fotogrametrine kompiuterine programa PhotoMod (Rusija). Sudaryta objekto ortofotografinė nuotrauka ir, parenkant skirtingus duomenų šaltinius, paviršiaus TIN (triangulated irregular network). Skirtingais metodais, naudojantis ArcGIS programa, atliktas fotogrametrinių TIN duomenų modeliavimas ir gauti objekto paviršiaus vaizdai. Įvertintas rezultatų tikslumas ir kokybė. Резюме Описываются возможности моделирования поверхности объекта архитектурного наследия. Моделирование осуществляется с использованием фотограмметрических данных объекта – цифровых снимков, снятых калибрированной цифровой камерой Canon EOS 1D Mark III. Камера калибрирована в Институте фотограмметрии Боннского университета (Германия). Снимки объекта обработаны по фотограмметрической компьютерной программе PhotoMod (Россия). Cделан ортофотографический снимок объекта и с помощью разных источников данных TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network) поверхности. Используя программу ArcGIS, разными методами проведено моделирование фотограмметрических TIN данных и получены изображения поверхности объекта. Осуществлена оценка точности и качества результатов.

scholarly journals Challenges of Building and Maintaining an Image Database: a use case based on the Digital Research Archive for Byzantium (DiFAB)

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-224
Author(s):  
Nina Rannharter ◽  
Sarah Teetor
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Image Database ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Metadata Standards ◽  
The University ◽  
Case Based ◽  
Digital Research

Due to the complex nature of archival images, it is an ongoing challenge to establish a metadata architecture and metadata standards that are easy to navigate and take into consideration future requirements. This contribution will present a use case in the humanities based on the Digital Research Archive for Byzantium (DiFAB) at the University of Vienna. Tracing one monument and its photographic documentation, this paper will highlight some issues concerning metadata for images of material culture, such as: various analog and digital forms of documentation; available thesauri – including problems of historical geography, multilingualism, and culturally specific terminologies –; and the importance of both precise and imprecise dating for cultural historians and their research archives.

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