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The H-Diplo publication schedule for the period 16 to 27 May is as follows:
Week of 16 May:
What a nice boost this quiz game set of moments was for history buffs and for the Taylor-Fillmore project! Good job!
Climate change has become a pervasive topic in the collective social and scientific imagination. There is no question that climate is now a part of our daily lives, from media images depicting the destruction caused by extreme weather conditions to news stories detailing the rapid depletion of natural resources to op-eds warning of the dangers of pollution on human health.
The Editorial Collective of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies is very pleased to announce the release of Volume 2, Issue 2, with a special theme of Matricultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
This issue of our online, open access, and peer-reviewed scholarly journal can be accessed here: https://www.networkonculture.ca/activities/matrix
Week of 09 May:
I'm by no means an expert on this material, but what you describe sounds like what they call "Plan Book Plans" at the notarial archives in New Orleans. There aren't a lot of examples of them online, but a few pages into the the first item here: http://www.orleanscivilclerk.com/ADVS.html there are some examples.
Adam Cox
MS Geography/MLIS student at Louisiana State University
Geospatial Developer
The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore has a new blog post! To see what we've been up to, the public attention Fillmore is getting, and America's response when Russia invaded a neighbor in 1849, check out "Millard Fillmore's YouTube Moment."
https://edspace.american.edu/taylorandfillmore/millard-fillmores-youtube-moment/
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