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Latest Entry from Now and Then:Of Mice and Mien (posted Thu, 05 Nov 2009)Today’s New York Times front page article on the dilemma facing the Walt Disney Company over revamping its icon über alles, Mickey Mouse, struck me as very odd, indeed. Aside from a certain perplexity regarding the significance of this issue over, say, the war in Afghanistan (relegated to the interior), the article’s claim that the corporation’s purportedly bold move to tamper with Mickey’s visage was unprecedented failed to note the notorious litigiousness of said corporation whenever outsiders dared to parody or alter in any way the rodent’s sacred features. Nor did. . . [More] Latest American Social History Podcast:Hispanic Migration to the United StatesCarlos Sanabria, Hostos Community College, CUNY “Demographic Revolutions: Hispanic Migration to the United States” Hostos Community College, CUNY April 24, 2009 Why did we come here? And why are we...... [More] |
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University of New York Graduate Center, ASHP/CML produces print, visual,
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November Picturing U.S. History Forum!Join historian Alice Fahs in a month-long online discussion about the visual culture of the Civil War and ways to use its visual evidence to teach the subject. |
