Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]
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Marking Digital History at UMW
Published by April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 3 CommentsAnother gem from the Ubuweb RSS feed.
Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion (1982-84)
1982-84, 55:27 min, b&w and color, sound
Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dances. [...]
James Farmer and the Great Debaters
Published by October 11th, 2007 in James Farmer, civil rights, politics and video. 5 CommentsJames L. Farmer, Jr. was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. He was a renowned orator, one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), organized the first sit-ins, and was a key figure on the Freedom Rides during the 1960s, a phrase he actually [...]
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