October 2023 Newsletter

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post

Silesian Vandals material culture, Vandalic pottery, between 100 BC and the late Migration Period

Image: Silesian Vandals material culture, Vandalic pottery, between 100 BC and the late Migration Period

A monthly roundup of what we’re reading, watching, or listening to this month in the world of material culture, alongside any updates from our editorial board.

We are delighted to welcome Caroline Hackett of Florida State University to our team as a general editor! Caroline is a PhD candidate in the final stages of her dissertation on women’s property rights in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. When not writing, she loves traveling, hanging out with her dog, bird watching, and

National Votes for Women Trail markers in Kentucky

Randolph Hollingsworth (she/her) Blog Post

The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (NCWHS) is leading the effort to develop a National Votes for Women Trail (NVWT), originally as a part of the celebrations commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment. (For more information about this national project, visit the About page at their website: https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/about-the-trail/.) The William G. Pomeroy Foundation sponsors the NVWT with donations of the distinctive NVWT national markers.

With the support of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project (KWSP), Kentucky has approximately 200 sites on the

Introducing the LEGACIES blog

R. Isabela Morales (she/her) Blog Post

Dear H-Slavery Members,

I am excited to introduce Legacies, H-Slavery's new blog on slavery and public history. More than 400 years after a slave ship brought the first enslaved Africans to colonial Virginia in 1619, more than 155 years after slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, the history of slavery -- and how it is remembered in the public imagination -- remains a subject of controversy and contention, a flashpoint in ongoing culture wars. Sharing research about slavery and exploring innovative ways that scholars present their work to the public is as relevant and important as

Breaking The Bronze Ceiling is a campaign to build a monument to celebrate the history of women in Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky.  The campaign kicked off in March 2018 with a public event at ArtsPlace in Lexington. Their goal is to raise $500,000 and have a monument in place in a prominent downtown Lexington location in 2020 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. See more at their website: www.breakingthebronzeceiling.com. The Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project has been supporting this initiative by supplying pamphlets, posters, bookmarks, speeches and historical

More Perfect: Podcasts, Pop History, and Historical Thinking

Heather Bennett Blog Post
Radiolab Presents More Perfect

There are two things I love about Radiolab Presents: More Perfect, the six-episode Radiolab spinoff produced by WNYC and co-hosted by Jad Abumrad. The first is this song - a quirky, catchy, mnemonic device for remembering the names of the eight current Supreme Court justices (plus nominee Merrick Garland):

The second is the way More Perfect communicates historical themes. The series’ hosts explore the cases that arguably made the Supreme Court the political powerhouse it is today and, in doing so, they unravel stories that address change over time, the complexity

More Perfect: Podcasts, Pop History, and Historical Thinking

Heather Bennett Blog Post
Radiolab Presents More Perfect

There are two things I love about More Perfect, the six-episode Radiolab spinoff produced by WNYC and co-hosted by Jad Abumrad. The first is this song - a quirky, catchy, mnemonic device for remembering the names of the eight current Supreme Court justices (plus the candidate Merrick Garland):

The second is the way More Perfect communicates historical themes. The series’ hosts explore the cases that, arguably, made the Supreme Court the political powerhouse it is today and, in doing so, they unravel stories that address change over time, the complexity of agency

By Nathan H. Dize (University of Maryland)

 

On May 26, I decided to make the trip to York College (CUNY) for a series of pre-Latin American Studies Association micro-lectures on Haitian and Dominican relations following the Constitutional Tribunal’s sentencia 168-13. The 2013 sentencia retroactively denies Dominican-born children of non-Dominican parents the right to citizenship for those born from 1928 until the present day, rendering thousands of Dominicans stateless. The event, organized by Kiran Jayaram (York College), ultimately sought to provide expert perspectives on the issue, its