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18 November 2010 – Will Walker 1
The editors of the online journal Common-place perhaps had Whitman’s line from the 1855 preface of Leaves of Grass: “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem” in mind when they decided recently to inaugurate a column that features contemporary poetry based on historical research. Read More
16 August 2010 – Mary Rizzo 3
As an avid reader of fashion magazines and blogs, I’ve noticed a curious trend over the past few years. Upscale boutiques are described as “curated,” selling “discerning” and “careful” collections of items. Are they just borrowing the language of museums or is something else at work when the worlds of retail and curation collide? Read More
09 August 2010 – Vanessa Macias 1
In El Paso, you can find delicious Mexican food on every major street, but Mercado Mayapan offers more than a tasty, affordable meal. Recently, while enjoying a plate of enchiladas Zacatecanas, I started thinking about Mercado Mayapan through the lens of this “Off the Wall” blog. Read More
26 July 2010 – Melissa Boyajian 4
I would like to consider a selection of contemporary artists who utilize archives and history in their work as a method of reconstituting the meaning of history, past, place, identity, exhibitry and authorship. Since there are many interesting artists working with history and archives I will concentrate on a couple and continue with more in my future reviews. Read More
12 July 2010 – Margo Shea 7
digital media, methods, public engagement, community history, digital history, media, memory, sense of place
Most of us are familiar with Flickr, an online open source platform for sharing, tagging and talking about user-generated digital photos. Around 5,000 images get uploaded every minute, lending credence to the notion that many of us are operating in a techno-blur of obsessive documentation and display of our lives, our people, our surroundings. Read More
30 June 2010 – Kevin Bartoy 3
This short clip of actor Tim Robbins reading the words of historian and gay activist Martin Duberman on the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion is taken from a collection of videos from the “Voices of a People’s History” project, a performance-oriented offshoot of Howard Zinn’s iconic work “A People’s History of the United States” (Zinn, who died earlier this year, is seen in this clip introducing Robbins’ reading). Read More