scholarly journals Visual Encounters with the Past: Teaching Visual Literacy to Enhance Historical and Cultural Understanding

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Peggy Keeran ◽  
Katherine Crowe ◽  
Jennifer Bowers
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
World War I ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Denver ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
Course Outcomes ◽  
The University

At the University of Denver, the reference librarians and special collections curator have developed strategies to incorporate visual literacy into instructional sessions across multiple disciplines. In this chapter, we will discuss our collaborations with faculty in anthropology and in history to help students interpret tangible and digital archival visual information that will inform their understanding of historical contexts and meet learning outcomes in two classes: “Native American Resistance in the Digital Age” and “World War I.” Whenever we partner with faculty to include visual literacy in non-arts courses, we start with course outcomes and work with the faculty to determine how the incorporation of visual literacy can help reach those goals. Our process is iterative, practice based, flexible, and ever evolving. This chapter will provide practical strategies that educators can use to implement this type of collaboration at their own institutions.

“Stern Champion of the Human Race, of Man as Human”: Alexander F. Chamberlain and Reform in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 833-864
Author(s):  
JOHN DAVID SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
World War I ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
World War ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Academic Interests

This essay examines the broad and understudied contributions of pioneer American anthropologist Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1865–1914), who earned America's first PhD in anthropology at Clark University under the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas. Before his untimely death on the eve of World War I, and Boas's rise as a leading scientific spokesman of antiracism at Columbia University, Chamberlain contributed as significantly as Boas to the fields of linguistic and cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, child development, comparative folklore, and Native American and African American culture, and to the cause of equality and justice for all humans. Chamberlain subscribed to an antiracist cultural evolutionism, frequently and passionately condemning ethnocentrism and insisting on the “generic humanity” of all persons, of all races. Close reading of Chamberlain's work suggests not that Boas's work mattered less, but rather that both men participated in an emerging debate on the nature and meaning of race that informed social policy and shaped academic interests during the Progressive Era.

Kolisch, Rudolf (1896–1978)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bangert
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Chamber Works ◽  
Second Viennese School ◽  
Left Hand ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
The University

Rudolf Kolisch was an Austrian-born violinist, teacher, and conductor. As leader of the Kolisch Quartet he premiered many important chamber works by the Second Viennese School and other modernist composers of the first half of the twentieth century. He later became leader of the Pro Arte Quartet and taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Kolisch was born in Klamm am Semmering, Austria on 20 July 1896. His father Rudolf was a doctor and his mother Henriette a pianist. Soon after starting violin lessons, an injury to his left hand led him to hold the violin in his right hand and bow left-handed. He attended the Vienna Music Academy and the University of Vienna, but his postgraduate studies were interrupted by three years of service in the Austrian army during World War I. His teachers included the Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík, the composer Franz Schrecker, and the musicologist Guido Adler.

scholarly journals Sigizmund Natanovich Valk, 1887-1975

Slavic Review ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 804-811
Author(s):  
Joan Afferica
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Archival Science ◽  
World War ◽  
Source Study ◽  
The University

Professor Valk, the distinguished dean of Leningrad historians, died on February 5 of 1975 at the age of eighty-seven. To review his career is to recall the splendid historical training provided by the University of St. Petersburg on the eve of World War I and to retrace the course of Soviet historical study, many of its principal aims, priorities, methods, and achievements. Professor Valk’s scholarly legacy includes over two hundred printed works; generations of students who benefited from his erudition, prodigious memory, and generous spirit; and a lasting contribution to the development of Soviet archival science and source study.

Confederate Statues and Their Dirty Laundry

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 349-359
Author(s):  
Ben Wright
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
World War ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
University Leaders ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation

AbstractSince 2015, America has witnessed a profound shift in aggregate public sentiments toward Confederate statues and symbols. That shift was keenly felt on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin (UT), culminating in the removal of four such statues in 2015 and 2017. However, an inquiry into their creation points to an equally significant shift in sentiments during the 1920s. UT's statues were commissioned in 1919 by George Littlefield, a Confederate veteran and university regent, as part of a larger war memorial. The ostensible purpose of that memorial was to commemorate veterans of both the Civil War and World War I. However, during the 1920s, a new generation of university leaders rejected Littlefield's design—and with it the assertion that the services of Civil and World War veterans were morally congruent and united in a common historical trajectory. This article tracks the ways in which they quietly and yet profoundly undermined the project, causing it to be significantly delayed and then extensively altered. Meanwhile, students and veterans improvised their own commemorative practices that were in stark contrast to the Confederate generation—the latter wanted to remember, while the former wanted to forget.

scholarly journals Philip Frank Wareing. 27 April 1914 — 29 March 1996

1999 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 507-518
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hall
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
World War ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
University College ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The University ◽  
Assistant Lecturer

Philip Wareing was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and after World War I moved to Benfleet and then to Watford, where he received his schooling. After leaving school he entered the Civil Service and took his BSc at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he studied part-time. After service during World War II in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, he took up a post as a demonstrator and then an assistant lecturer at Bedford College, University of London, obtaining his PhD in 1948. In 1950 he moved to the Department of Botany at Manchester and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Botany in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1981.

scholarly journals Future Historians: Their Quest for Information

1999 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Delgadillo ◽  
Beverly P. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Research University ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information Seeking Behavior ◽  
General Question ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Reference Librarians ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
The University

This paper examines how history graduate students at one research university seek information and how they use the university library in their information-seeking process. The general question framing the study was whether graduate students in history demonstrate the same information-seeking behavior as established scholars. Related questions explored the use of new technologies and the reliance that history graduate students place on reference librarians and librarians in special collections.

Finding “pax plantation” at Camp Gordon, Georgia: Historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and World War I

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-599
Author(s):  
John David Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
World War I ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Intelligence ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University

This article examines the World War I service of the University of Michigan historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877–1934). Phillips worked first with black recruits as a volunteer officer for the Young Men's Christian Association at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and later as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence officer in Washington, DC. In these years, Phillips ranked as America's foremost authority on the antebellum South generally and of African American slavery in particular. In 1918 he published his landmarkAmerican Negro Slavery. While on leave from Ann Arbor, Phillips taught English and French, planned educational and recreational programs, and supervised the management and construction of buildings at Camp Gordon's segregated facilities. Phillips's daily interactions with black troops in the cantonment reaffirmed—at least as he saw it—his conclusions that North American slavery had been a relatively benign institution, his belief in the virtues of plantation paternalism and in the management of subject peoples by educated whites, and his attitude that contemporary race relations were generally harmonious. Phillips's observations of African American recruits validated his conviction that blacks benefited most from white-run, regimented organizations and strengthened his belief in economic assimilation and social segregation. His military intelligence work confirmed Phillips's overall commitment to conservative change, whether in foreign or race relations.

Othmar Spann and the Quest for a “True State,”

1976 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Haag
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservative Revolution ◽  
True State ◽  
Economic Collapse ◽  
The University

The Austrian scholar and social theorist Othmar Spann (1878–1950) was a major figure in the “conservative revolution” that fired the imagination of many Central European intellectuals after World War I. Born in the Habsburg monarchy as it was disintegrating under the pressures of nationalism and industrialization, Spann seemed destined for a conventional academic career until war, revolution, and economic collapse destroyed the social and ideological foundations of the old order in 1918. A series of lectures delivered at the University of Vienna soon after the war quickly made Spann a major spokesman for the “war generation”—young men whose roughhewn idealism found few outlets in the grim world of postwar Central Europe.

scholarly journals Vladimir Leonidovich Borman - the first pediatric surgeon of the Imperial Kazan University

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-284
Author(s):  
A A Akhunzyanov
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Medical Faculty ◽  
Surgical Service ◽  
World War ◽  
Pediatric Ward ◽  
Pediatric Surgeon ◽  
Pediatric Clinic ◽  
University Department ◽  
The University ◽  
Medical University

Vladimir Leonidovich Borman was the first pediatric surgeon of the Imperial Kazan University, participated in the Russo-Japanese War, World War I and the Civil War. In 1900 a novel course of pediatric surgical diseases was started at the university. A new pediatric clinic was launched among other new clinics, and Vladimir Leonidovich Borman, a surgeon and a doctor of medicine, was invited to head one of the departments there. Since then the teaching of pediatric surgical diseases for Imperial Kazan University medical faculty students has been performed at the pediatric ward of the faculty surgery clinic. Then Vladimir Leonidovich participated in surgical service foundation in many parts of the country both at peace and wartime, he became the founder of the Omsk State Medical University department of hospital surgery. The contribution of that amazing, energetic, talented doctor and teacher to Russian medicine can not be overestimated.

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