One of the things I love about my Flickr photostream are the intermittent gifts from my contacts. Fotoedge’s images regularly provide me with a beautifully textured and preserved Americana of the Mid-West. Whenever he uploads a new photo I am sure to spend some time thinking about the relationship between our state of mind [...]
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Intermittent presents of endurance and hope on Flickr
Published by July 16th, 2007 in museums. 1 CommentThe “effa bee eye” may be coming to a campus near you
Published by June 24th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 5 CommentsAccording to the Press Esc blog the FBI is offering to brief universities on how to identify an international spy on campus, here are some of the indicators listed:
Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: American Film Genres syllabus from Summer 2000
Published by June 12th, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 10 CommentsFrom another lifetime, here is class I taught at SUNY Old Westbury that was a total blast. A recent post on Film Noirs inspired me to start putting my old syllabi on bavawiki in order to begin archiving and making available some of the work I have done over the last ten years (has [...]
Title Page of The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea, from Daniel E. Williams’s Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal Narratives.
The topics of pirates and piracy has been on my mind a lot as of late. In the Early American Criminal Narratives class I have been talking about at length [...]
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This is a current snapshot of the ever changing category cloud for the Early American Crime Narratives class I have been teaching and experimenting with this Summer session. Read about the conception of this category tag project here, a rare success in this classroom with this approach here, and a [...]
Doing some last minute prep for class this evening I stumbled across an interesting fact about the iconic early American minister Cotton Mather. Not only was he arguably one of the most important figures in shaping the regrettable Puritan legacy of the U.S. with works like the Magnalia Christi Americana, but he also [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: Discipline and Punish
Published by May 24th, 2007 in WordPress. 10 CommentsOK, so last night’s class was so inspiring (a.k.a. sick) that I thought I would blog about it right quick. I have been leaving traces of some of the resources I have been finding on YouTube, and alluding to some ideas about categories, tagging, and WordPress -but last night demonstrated a couple of amazing [...]
Well, I have been furiously putting together my syllabus for the class on Early American Crime Narratives I’ll be teaching this first Summer session, which starts tomorrow! The class will be tracing a series of narratives from the colonial period through the U.S. revolution. More specifically, we will be examining the reformulation of crime and [...]
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