In The Limelight
New Media Lab in the News
The eight-minute segment, produced by Lauren Mucciolo, gives a general introduction to the lab and highlights the work of doctoral students who are incorporating multimedia formats into their scholarship. The show features students in music, environmental psychology, and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages (Zachary Seldess, Shawndel Fraser, and Marcos Wasem).
Staff in the Limelight 2: The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
In the second installment of "Staff in the Limelight," Ellen Noonan discusses her forthcoming book about the famous Gershwin opera and the politics of race in twentieth-century America.
Mission US Goes Live! A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
This is For Crown or Colony? the first installment of Mission US, a free online history game designed to improve students' understanding of US history through innovative, engaging game play.
“Former Slave Recalls Slave Quarters and Moments of Leisure”
Masters and slaves viewed slave quarters very differently. While masters sought to create an ordered world where their control was complete, slaves attempted to create homes, grow food and raise families
Herb, a Resource Database: coming soon
For those of you who have been following the Now and Then blog, you may be aware that we're working on developing an online resource for social history documents and for teachers. This resource database tentatively called "Herb" after the esteemed Herbert G.Gutman.
Where do you get your history?
Where do you get your history? Off –Broadway? Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by its title doesn’t leave much room for interpretation; the point is made more forcefully by the interior of the theater that is completely crimson, except for the reproduced portraits of the “stars†of the Jacksonian Era.
Teaching and Learning at ASHP in Action!
Take a look at a new video showing teachers in our workshops and seminars.
Staff in the Limelight 1: Our Intrepid Correspondent . . .
As the first installment of our "Staff in the Limelight," we offer a conversation with Leah Potter about her current research on the Gilded Age American journalist, Nellie Bly.
What might these things have in common?
The longer answer: All are the focus of a digital project by a New Media Lab graduate student researcher. All share an innovative approach to using cutting edge programs and digital tools to enhance their scholarly research.
Youth on the Road
Continuing our theme of responses to the Great Depression of the 1930s, this month’s highlighted items focus on the responses of young men and women to the economic pressures they and their families faced.
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