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Smith College, Museum of Art
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
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Colleagues,
I am writing on behalf of an art and architectural historian of 17th c. France, Robert W. Berger, who is hoping that a medical historian will be interested in utilizing his translation of a case study, written in Bordeaux in 1669, in a work of medical history. Having seen the brief translation, I agree that it could be of interest, certainly for teaching purposes. Please respond directly to him at: rwberger36@gmail.com . What follows is his description of the material in 2 emails to me.
Ellen More
If you want to make some selections from reform and anti-reform pamphlet literature, the American Antiquarian Society's Teach US History has a useful collection of links to plain-text versions of them, sorted by topic. I've found the Clements Library's assortment of primary sources on female education, evangelism, and culture to be really i
Dear Kentucky Educators,
Have you been looking for a forum to share your knowledge, experience, and classroom successes?
The Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy
University of Dayton, October 1-3, 2015
“Sound and Story: The Rhythms of Language in the Works of Germanophone Women Writers”
German Women Writers Panel at the 2015 SCMLA, Nashville, TN, October 31 - November 3
For German and Polish please scroll down
Jewish–German–Polish:
histories and traditions in medical culture(s)
15th International Conference of the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine
Poznan University of Medical Sciences
In co-operation with:
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
German Historical Institute, Warsaw
Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Colleagues,
I am writing on behalf of an art and architectural historian of 17th c. France, Robert W. Berger, who is hoping that a medical historian will be interested in utilizing his translation of a case study, written in Bordeaux in 1669, in a work of medical history. Having seen the brief translation, I agree that it could be of interest, certainly for teaching purposes. Please respond directly to him at: rwberger36@gmail.com . What follows is his description of the material in 2 emails to me.
Ellen More
Crossing the Centennial: The Historiography of the Armenian Genocide Re-Evaluated
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
March 19-20, 2014
Wick Alumni Center – Great Hall
1520 R Street.
Sponsored by
Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
Society for Armenian Studies
Department of History
Thanks, Janet. I've done all those things except for going to the county itself and digging through local records. One newspaper story on the guy said that it was thought he had fled to Mexico. In any case, it's hard enough trying to track some obscure dude, but one who was purposefully trying to cover his tracks is close to impossible. I don't even really know what the procedure is for having someone declared legally dead. Who does that? Probate court?
Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki. Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth-Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki. Polish and Polish American Studies Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. 272 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8214-2073-7; $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2004-1; $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8214-4420-7.
Leighton S. James. Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe. War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xiii + 281 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-24917-2.
Reviewed by Robert D. Billinger, Jr. (Wingate University)
Published on H-German (March, 2015)
Commissioned by Chad Ross
Shlomo Avineri. Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State. Translated by Haim Walztman. Katonah, NY: BlueBridge, 2013. 304 pp. $22.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-933346-98-4.
Reviewed by Mark Blum (University of Louisville)
Published on HABSBURG (March, 2015)
Commissioned by Jonathan Kwan
The Experiential Development of Theodor Herzl's Vision
