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A wax figure of Cristiano Ronaldo is displayed at CR7 Museum in Funchal, Madeira island on April 29, 2016. Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo's talent was first revealed in the CF Andorinha, a little club of his native island of Madeira, where pictures of this gifted kid, who became inspiration for the younger generation, are today displayed everywhere. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP.
LISBON (AFP).- Cristiano Ronaldo's museum on Madeira has upsized to a larger home in anticipation of the Real Madrid star winning "future trophies", his cousin told AFP on Monday.
The Portugal striker's self-financed shrine now occupies a prime seafront position in Funchal, the island's capital where "CR7" was born in 1985.
The museum's new two-storey site "will be able to welcome Ronaldo's future trophies," his cousin and museum director Nuno Viveiros said.
The treasure trove charting the success of Madeira's most famous son draws in 200,000 visitors a year.
It boasts two waxworks of the former Manchester United forward whilst a 3.4-metre-high (11 feet) bronze statue he unveiled of himself in December 2014 has been moved to greet visitors at the entrance.
In January the statue was the target of graffiti when it was tagged with the name and shirt number of arch-rival Lionel Messi, hours after the Barcelona superstar saw off Ronaldo to claim a fifth world player of the year award.
Among the 160 trophies on display are Ronaldo's three Ballons d'Or.
But one glaring omission is any honour relating to his time on international duty.
The 31-year-old, who won a third Champions League title last month, will be hoping to redress that anomaly at Euro 2016 with Portugal opening their Group F campaign against Iceland on June 14.
Irrespective of Ronaldo's success or not at the European Championships his cousin is confident he will soon be taking delivery of fresh silverware.
"After the Euro Ronaldo will be starting a new season with Real," when he can win more trophies, Viveiros predicted.
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Walter Benjamin's reading list of crime and classics revealed
Philosopher's little black book of books included in Berlin show by artist and author Edmund de Waal
by Julia Michalska | 7 June 2016
Walter Benjamin's journal listing all the books he read (Image: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Walter Benjamin Archiv)
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Stuck for summer reading ideas? Why not find inspiration from Walter Benjamin? Since he was a student, the German philosopher and culture critic wrote down and numbered every book he read in a journal. The small black notebook catalogues Benjamin's reading from the age of 22 in 1917 until 1939, shortly before he left Paris fleeing from the Nazis. It begins with number 462—earlier entries are lost—and ends with number 1712, Robert Hichens' Le Toque noire. Putting to shame the more leisurely reader, Benjamin was averaging more than one book a week.
The notebook is on show this month at Berlin's Galerie Max Hetzler as part of Irrkunst, an exhibition on the ceramicist Edmund de Waal, the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. Irrkunst is De Waal's first exhibition in Berlin, which, he says, is a city he feels he knows "through the writings of Walter Benjamin". Building upon this influence, De Waal collaborated with the Walter Benjamin Archive to exhibit the philosopher's original manuscripts alongside his own works in the show. (The gallery in west Berlin looks out onto Benjamin's former school.)
Walter Benjamin in the 1920s.
"What you have here is an archive of Benjamin's knowledge. You're reading the story of his own education," says Ursula Marx, a researcher at the archive. Generally, Benjamin noted only the author and title of the books in his list, but he sometimes included where and when he read a book, whether he read it only in part, and on some rare occasions included his opinion, describing some works as "schund" (trash), or "albern" (silly).
Proust and Baudelaire feature heavily, as do the stars of Russian literature (Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Gogol) and German philosophy (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marx). But Benjamin's love of mystery novels is one of the more unexpected revelations—he was planning to write his own crime novel with the playwright Bertholt Brecht. Three Agatha Christies are listed, two books by Arthur Conan Doyle as is The Red House Mystery, the only crime novel written by A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie-the-Pooh.
• Edmund de Waal: Irrkunst, Max Hetzler, Berlin, until 16 July
Exhibition at Jeu de Paume revisits the life and work of Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek, Prague pendant la nuit, vers 1950–1959. Épreuve gélatino-argentique, 12 × 16,7 cm. Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa. Don anonyme, 2010. © Succession de Josef Sudek.
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Gilbert & George to convert East End house into non-profit gallery
Contemporary art foundation would host two exhibitions a year and is expected to bring 200 visitors a week
by Anny Shaw | 7 June 2016
Inside the main house on Heneage Street, a former brewery, soon to become The Gilbert & George Centre
Gilbert & George are planning to convert an East End house into a non-profit gallery and foundation for contemporary art. The artists have lived and worked in Spitalfields since 1969 and often draw inspiration for their work from the local multi-faith community. They rescued their current house and studio on Fournier Street from dereliction and painstakingly restored it to its 18th-century origins themselves.
The site for the proposed gallery, called The Gilbert & George Centre, is a house on nearby Heneage Street, which previously belonged to the late artist Polly Hope. As part of the refurbishments, Gilbert & George propose to rebuild the 1970s workshop as a gallery and create a new basement.
According to the planning statement, the art foundation would "operate purely for the public benefit" with the aim of "promoting the education of the public in the arts". The gallery would "benefit both the local community as well as the wider community, attracting visitors from other locations".
Because the centre is a non-profit foundation, the number of exhibitions are limited to two a year. It would be open to visitors by appointment, with typical opening hours from 10am to 5pm, free of charge. Gilbert & George are expecting 200 visitors a week to the gallery and will create two full-time positions. Unlike their own collection, which mainly consists of 19th-century furniture and decorative arts by designers including Augustus Pugin, George Bullock and Christopher Dresser, the gallery will show contemporary art.
The architects Sir Solutions have prepared the planning statement for Gilbert & George and Tower Hamlets Council is expected to make a decision on 5 July. Neighbours are currently being consulted; according to the planning report, Anne Butler, the landlady of the Pride of Spitalfields pub next door, is "supportive of the overall proposed scheme" and thinks the plans will "enrich the area". The artists were not available for comment.
PARIS.- Entitled "The Intimate World of Josef Sudek", this exhibition is the first of this scale to revisit the life and work of Josef Sudek (Kolin, 1896 – Prague, 1976) within its sociogeographical and historical context: Prague during the first half of the twentieth century, at a time when the Czech capital was a veritable hub of artistic activity.
The exhibition features a selection of 130 works spanning the totality of Sudek's career, from 1920 to 1976, and allows the public to examine the extent to which his photography was a reflection of his personal relationship to the surrounding world. On display are works that are the result of Sudek's photographic experiments carried out within the privacy of his own studio, images of the garden seen from his window, and photographs of adventures further afield. The artist enjoyed meandering through the streets of Prague and its surrounding suburbs, and made frequent excursions to the nearby countryside.
Sudek's enduring fascination with light, and its absence, is at the root of some of the most haunting photographs of the twentieth century. Nature, architecture, streets and objects are magnified by his sensitivity and mastery of the effects of light, contrasting with the impenetrable cloak of darkness.
As a photographer, Sudek was particularly concerned with the quality of the photographic print, an essential component in terms of the expressive potential of an image. His mastery of the pigment printing process enabled him to produce highly atmospheric and evocative images, thereby reaping all of the reflective and descriptive power of the gelatin silver print.
The exhibition presents work from Sudek's early career, but also features photographs from a pivotal period of experimentation and innovation, beginning in the 1940s. Focusing on the technical and formal aspects of the medium of photography, Sudek created pigment prints, halftone prints, puridlos (photographs between two windows) and veteše (photographs inserted into old frames), techniques which allowed him to transform the objectal quality of photography.
The loss of his right arm during the First World War and the difficulties he now encountered in transporting his view camera did not dampen his passion for photography.
Sudek's studio window became an object of abiding fascination—rather like the surface of a canvas—reflecting moments of exquisite tenderness and hope when a flowering branch brushed against its pane, or of poignant melancholy when he observed the world beyond his window transformed by the playful infinity of mist.
His room with a view allowed him to capture, on film, his love of Prague. His photographs demonstrate both a precision and a depth of feeling, fitting odes to the rich history and architectural complexity of the Czech capital.
Like many artists of his generation marked by their experience of war, Sudek expresses a particularly acute awareness of the dark and tormented aspects of human existence—feelings that would inspire some of his most melancholy and most moving pictures. A photograph taken at night, through the glass pane of his window, shows a city plunged into darkness during the Occupation of the Second World War, and communicates a sentiment of unspeakable despair—a dramatic illustration of Sudek's technical ability to transcend the literal.
The first part of the exhibition features images that herald the photographer's later work, showing his early landscapes, portraits of fellow patients at Invalidovna, the Prague hospice for war invalids like Sudek, his hesitant foray into modernism, and his interior shots of St. Vitus Cathedral.
Through images that recount the narrative of his life, the viewer gains access to Sudek's inner world, and an insight into his immediate environment, the views and objects he loved, his studio and garden. His endless walks in Prague found expression in the views of the city and its surroundings, as well as in photographs of its more sordid "suburbs", a subject explored by other Prague artists. The eastern and northern areas of Bohemia, the Beskid Mountains and the Mionší forest were other destinations close to the photographer's heart.
The exhibition "The Intimate World of Josef Sudek" provides a fascinating panorama of the work of this unique artist.
Curators: Vladimír Birgus (director of the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University, Opava), Ian Jeffrey (art historian) and Ann Thomas (curator of photography, The Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa).


It's hard to feel stuck. Whether it's relationally, occupationally, with a hidden sin, with your finances, or spiritually, there's a deadness that seeps into all other areas of your life when you're feeling like you can't overcome something.
And when you look at Scripture, it's really easy to see that's not the way God created us to live. At. All.
If you're feeling stuck, it's time to live blessed instead.
I was reminded this morning that Jesus gives us a really good blueprint through the Beatitudes of what it looks like to focus our efforts on the most important things. As we focus on what's most important to Him, it puts our own circumstances and struggles in perspective.
The hinge point of these beatitudes is in the beginning of each when Jesus says "Blessed are those..." or, in some translations, "God blesses those..." This isn't #blessed where something good happens or we're reminded of how nice we have it. This is a deep sense of peace and joy that God has for His people when we're living in the ways that matter most to Him. The Greek word here can even be translated to "lucky" (more on this here) to remind us that we've been chosen and called not based off anything good we've done but because God loves us and is using us.
Stay sober-minded about whose you are. Your good works aren't yours. They're God's. In fact, your whole life is His. Keep your thoughts focused on whose you are, not on how well or poorly your actions seem.
The deepest mourning is when we see how far our actions truly separate us from the holiest of holies: God. When we remember our own depravity, we can see his grace more clearly. True comfort comes in seeing this.
We start to turn a corner here and see Jesus inviting us into a way of living. The term "meek" could more literally be defined as "the men who suffer wrong without bitterness or desire for revenge." It's controlling our anger and choosing to love rather than dish out what we believe is deserved. God calls us to always live this way.
This is not a "feel good" stanza. Jesus promises this. And of all the beatitudes, I'm most challenged by this one. I want to grow. I want to be closer to God. But is that the primary driving force of my life? Am I willing to forego all my selfish desires to truly experience His love and direction? Major heart check for me. And if you find yourself in a similar place, start praying this as often as you remember: "God, help me to hunger and thirst for your righteousness in me."
5. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
When we choose to give mercy to others who we feel may or may not deserve it, what we're really saying is, "God, I trust your justice over my own." And the truth is that you and I deserve judgment outside of the work of Jesus. When we treat others with the same mercy we've received from Jesus, we experience that mercy freshly.
We can't do this on our own. Scripture's clear that our hearts are deceitful, wicked, and self-seeking. But when we continually seek to empty ourselves and live God's way instead of our own, we see His ways more clearly. And by reaction, we can see and know Him more clearly, too.
"This does not describe those who live in peace, but those who actually bring about peace, overcoming evil with good." To witness and participate in bringing God's Kingdom to earth is one of His greatest calls. We do that in the small acts of grace we show to our coworkers or family members. We also do this in bringing relief and restoration to brokenness we find in our neighborhoods and cities.
8. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Persecution is such a tough subject for those of us who live in "comfortable" America, where the highest amount of persecution we may receive is a dirty look from a coworker. My greatest challenge in this is to not live safely. It's easy for "American Christianity" to just be a part of our lives that doesn't stir the pot or create uncomfortableness for others or ourselves. When I think about the stories of the early church and true persecution, I think of men and women who were willing to look like complete fools that even one person would understand the God who loves them. How "out of my way" am I willing to go to listen and obey the true voice of God? To what degree would His voice be just a little too crazy or weird for me to say, "Yeah, probably not that." And how can I stretch myself and invite the work of the Spirit in my life instead of doing what just feels like enough to me?
I pray that Jesus' words would stir up your heart to think differently about your circumstances. I pray that you would live a truly blessed life. I pray that whatever you feel stuck by would loosen its grip on you as you pursue the way of Jesus. And I pray that God would direct your thoughts and actions to what matters most: His voice and His way.
Well said, Andrew Brown! A refreshing perspective of the Beatitudes!


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Osman Zeki Üngör (Isztambul, 1880 – Isztambul, 1958. február 28.) török zeneszerző, hegedűvirtuóz, szövegíró, Törökország első Elnöki Szimfonikus Zenekarának karmestere; a török himnusz (İstiklâl Marşı) zenéjének szerzője. Segédkezett a Török Állami Konzervatórium megalapításában, és az intézmény első igazgatója is ő volt; aktívan részt vett a törvények létrehozásában, melyek értelmében a különleges művészi tehetséggel rendelkező diákok oktatását teljes egészében az állam finanszírozza.

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Isztambul Üsküdar negyedében született 1880-ban, egy cukorkereskedő fiaként. Nagyapja Santuri Hilmi Bey, az oszmán szultáni udvar elismert zenésze, az Oszmán Birodalmi Zenekar Fasl-ı Cedid zenekarának alapítója.

Középiskolai tanulmányait a Beşiktaş Katonai Akadémia középiskolájában végezte 1891-ben, 11 évesen nyert felvételt az Oszmán Birodalmi Zenekarhoz, és tehetségével nemcsak oktatói figyelmét keltette fel, hanem II. Abdulhamid szultánét is, aki Vondra Bey hegedűst és d'Aradna pasát bízta meg a fiú tanításával. Üngör zenei tanulmányai befejezésével hegedűművész lett, és hamar a Birodalmi Zenekar prímása, majd 1917-ben karmester lett belőle. Vezető szerepet játszott abban, hogy a zenekar, amely eredetileg leginkább katonai indulókat játszott, nyugati értelemben vett szimfonikus zenekarrá váljon.

Üngör zenekari tevékenysége mellett oktatóként is működött, zeneórákat adott a Birodalmi Zenekarnál, az Istanbul Erkek Lisesiben, és hetente nyilvános koncertet adott a Union Française-ben. Karmesterként fellépett Bécsben, Berlinben, Drezdában, Münchenben, Budapesten és Szófiában.

Hírneve csúcsát akkor érte el, amikor 1922-ben megírta a török nemzeti himnusz zenéjét Mehmet Akif Ersoy szövegére. Nem sokkal ezután az újonnan kikiáltott Török Köztársaság frissen megalapított Elnöki Szimfonikus Zenekarának első karmestere lett; emiatt 1924 körül Ankarába költözött.

Fontos szerepet játszott a Musik-i Muallim Cemiyeti (jelenleg a Hacettepei Egyetem Állami Konzervatóriuma) megalapításában, és 1924–1934 között az intézmény első igazgatója is volt. Ebben az időben aktív részt vett olyan törvények alkotásában, amely a különlegesen tehetséges fiatal művészek állami szponzorálását és külföldi taníttatását tette lehetővé.

1934-ben nyugdíjba vonult, élete hátralévő részét az isztambuli Maçka Palasban lévő otthonában élte le. Hetvennyolc évesen hunyt el 1958. február 28-án. Utolsó kívánságát, mely szerint temetésén játsszák le a himnuszt, a kormány örömmel teljesítette, így a köztársaság történetében ő lett a második (a szöveg szerzője, Mehmet Akif Ersoy után), akinek temetésén elhangzott a himnusz. Üsküdarban nyugszik, a Karacaahmet temetőben.

Egy fia született, Ekrem Zeki, aki apja nyomdokaiba lépett hegedűművészként és zenetanárként.

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'Physician Heal Thyself!': The Dr. Percy E. Ryberg Papers
October 21, 2020 mlp60@duke.edu	Leave a comment
Post contributed by Matthew Barrett, Graphic Artist and Historian at the Canadian War Museum
In December 1944, Flight Lieutenant Percy Edward Ryberg was sentenced to dismissal from the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) for renting a London apartment with two airmen accused of homosexuality. Ryberg, a medical officer, had earlier published a book, Health, Sex and Birth Control (1942), which included a chapter devoted to understanding homosexuality. The circumstances of the case left me with many questions about Ryberg. I was intrigued to learn that the Rubenstein Library held Dr. Ryberg's papers.
Graphic history of Ryberg's court martial, drawn by the author
Thanks to a History of Medicine Collections travel grant from Duke, in September 2019, I was able to explore Ryberg's history in far more depth. The visit was well worth the trip as his writings and correspondence offered unique insights into his professional career and private life.
Ryberg was born on February 26, 1908 in England but grew up in Argentina. After graduating with a medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1935, Ryberg worked as a physician in the city. Then in 1938 he earned a three-year fellowship to the Mayo Clinic. Following the outbreak of WWII, he joined the RCAF as a medical officer. He served overseas in England until his dismissal in December 1944.
After the end of his military service, Ryberg took up a position in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University in June 1945. Within a few years he opened a private psychiatric practice in New York where he also received appointments to various clinics and hospitals. After a medical career that spanned seven decades, Ryberg died on December 16, 2001 at the age of ninety-three.
Despite having read thousands of pages from his diaries, letters, and memos, Ryberg remains something of an enigma to me. His papers reveal the complexity and contradictions of a private life that departed from the ideal he promoted. He wrote about sexual health and rejected judgmental morality but since teenage years he was deeply ambivalent about sex and tried to repress homoerotic feelings. He upheld marriage as the most important and profound experience in life, but privately called his own marriage a "convenience" that he said brought nothing but regret.[1] A constant theme in Ryberg's life was the ambiguous definition of "normal." It is a question that the doctor attempted to answer his entire career and was in part what led him to study medicine.
Graphic history (in style of Dr. Kildare comics) of Ryberg's career, drawn by author
Ryberg sometimes acknowledged the contradictions at the center of his own life and professional identity. He complained that the public placed physicians and psychiatrists on pedestals only to express "spiteful triumph" when revered medical authorities are exposed for human faults and thereby "reveal their feet of clay." He resented such sayings as "'Practice what you preach!' Or, 'Physician, heal thyself!'" Ryberg argued that "the psychiatrist who is honest with himself and with others tries very hard to practice what he preaches, though he, like other people, may not always succeed."[2]
I have only highlighted a few of the contradictions between his professional advocacy and private life, but his long career and contributions to psychiatry deserve far deeper analysis. I continue to work through his papers to better understand his life and experiences.
For more detail on Ryberg's court martial and his medical career see my article, "Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Doctor: Medical Attitudes toward Homosexuality and the Court Martial of Dr. Percy Ryberg," recently published in the Canadian Journal of History. It is freely available for a limited time at: https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-2019-0053
Matthew Barrett is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian War Museum. As an artist and historian his postdoc project explores graphic and illustrative storytelling as forms of historical interpretation and analysis.
[1] "Sample Column," October 1954. Ryberg papers, box 3.
[2] Percy Ryberg, to Barbara Ryberg, 30 Oct 1953. Ryberg papers, box 2.
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Would You Buy a Comic Book from this Woman?
October 5, 2020 Kate Collins
Post contributed by Sagan Thacker, recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville BA in History. Read more in their senior thesis, "'Something to Offend Everyone': Situating Feminist Comics of the 1970s and '80s in the Second-Wave Feminist Movement," forthcoming in the University of North Carolina at Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Research and available to read here.
"Would You Buy a Comic Book from This Woman?" by Barb Behm, in Amazon: A Feminist Journal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), February 1976. From the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Periodicals Collection, Box 1.
In January 2020, I traveled from Western North Carolina to the Sallie Bingham Center to study feminist newspapers in two of the Bingham Center's incredible collections: the Women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements (LGBT) Periodicals and Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Periodicals collections. I was looking for material about feminist underground comics of the 1970s and '80s—books such as Wimmen's Comix and Tits and Clits. I wanted to determine what feminists of the time period thought about the comics, and whether they viewed them as serious literature or just mindless entertainment.
I soon found several articles that turned popular notions of comics on their heads. Most notable was a February 1976 article from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, newspaper Amazon: A Feminist Journal. Written by Barb Behm about the now obscure Pricella Pumps/Star Buckwheat Comic Book by Barba Kutzner (1976), the article cogently praised the book's relatability and satire of American society and its metaphorical significance for all women. Behm touted Kutzner's protagonist as both a character with which women could heartily identify and a way to break free from the oppressive system and celebrate non-normativity.
This source was instrumental in showing that feminist underground comics, far from being tangential and lowbrow parts of the second-wave feminist movement, were instead an important part of the intellectual discourse within feminism. By finding a critic who enthusiastically engaged with the work on a level beyond its perceived lowbrow status, it became clear that some feminists viewed comics as a valid and direct medium to write and engage with feminism on a level that would not be widespread until the zine revolution of the late 1980s and early '90s. This reframing of comics' literary history deepens our understanding of second-wave feminism and gives a more nuanced portrait of its discursive diversity.
Cover by Barba Kutzner, Amazon: A Feminist Journal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), February 1976. From the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Periodicals Collection, Box 1.
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From the Collections
August 12, 2020 Kate Collins
Kelly Wooten, Research Services and Collection Development Librarian for the Sallie Bingham Center.
For over twenty years, the Rubenstein Library has offered travel grants for researchers. The first grant began with the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture's Mary Lily Research Travel Grant program and grew to include the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture; John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History; History of Medicine Collections; Human Rights Archive; and most recently, the Harry H. Harkins T'73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History.
As archivists, we have long understood that research, scholarship, writing, and creative processes take time. The outcomes from the people and projects we support often come to fruition years in the future. Thankfully, we stay in touch with many of our grant recipients long after they visit the Rubenstein Library, and are thrilled to celebrate their publications and projects once they are out in the world. Here are a few selections we'd like to highlight:
Anesthesia Mask, 4"x5" printed plexi glass plate, 2016-2018. History of Medicine Collections, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, c. 20th c.
Lindsey Beal, Mellon Faculty Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, received a History of Medicine travel grant in March 2016. Beal's photographic work, Parturition, features History of Medicine Collections instruments and artifacts with a focus on obstetric and gynecological tools.
Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s by Victoria Grieve, Associate Professor of History at Utah State University, was published by the Oxford University Press in 2018. Dr. Grieve visited the Rubenstein Library in May 2016 as a Foundation for Outdoor Advertising Research and Education Fellow through the Hartman Center to use the Outdoor Advertising Association of America archives, the Garrett Orr papers, and the J. Walter Thompson Co. Writings and Speeches Collection.
Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage by Lauren Jae Gutterman, professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin, was published in 2019 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Dr. Gutterman received a Mary Lily Research Travel Grant from the Bingham Center in 2013. Her research focused on the Minnie Bruce Pratt papers, as well as the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance's archives and the papers of prominent feminist thinkers Robin Morgan and Kate Millett. Dr. Gutterman is also co-host of the podcast Sexing History.
Marjorie Lorch, Professor of Neurolinguistics, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication, University of London, visited the Rubenstein Library in February 2018 as a History of Medicine Collections grant recipient, utilizing the Henry Charles Bastian papers for her research. Her article, "The long view of language localization" was published in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy in May 2019. She also co-authored an article with R. Whurr, "The laryngoscope and nineteenth-century British understanding of laryngeal movements," Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, also published in May 2019.
Rachel R. Miller successfully defended her dissertation "The Girls' Room: Bedroom Culture and the Ephemeral Archive in the 1990s" to complete her Ph.D. in English at the Ohio State University on May 18, 2020. She received a Mary Lily Research Grant to use the Bingham Center's zine collections in 2018. Since her defense was held via videoconference, Dr. Miller noted on Twitter, "I've been working for four years on a project about how teenage girls' bedrooms are archival spaces, so I guess it's only appropriate that I'll be defending my project from my bedroom."
Erik A. Moore, postdoctoral associate at the University of Oklahoma's Humanities Forum, visited the Rubenstein Library in May 2017 as a Human Rights Archive grant recipient. His article "Rights or Wishes? Conflicting Views over Human Rights and America's Involvement in the Nicaraguan Contra War" was published in the journal Diplomacy & Statecraft (v. 29, no. 4) in October 2018. Dr. Moore used the Washington Office on Latin America records in his research.
Wangui Muigai, Assistant Professor in African and African American Studies and History at Brandeis University, is a historian of medicine and science. She received a Franklin Grant in 2015 for research on infant mortality and race from slavery to the Great Migration. Dr. Muigai was awarded the Nursing Clio inaugural prize for best journal article for "'Something Wasn't Clean': Black Midwifery, Birth, and Postwar Medical Education in All My Babies" in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine (v. 93, no. 1,) in 2019, which cites an interview from the Behind the Veil oral history collection.
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, was published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2019. . Dr. Winford is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He was awarded a Franklin Research Center grant in 2015-2016. While visiting the Rubenstein Library, Dr. Winford consulted the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company archive, the C.C. Spaulding papers, the Asa and Elna Spaulding papers, and the Rencher Nicholas Harris papers. In February 2020, Dr. Winford returned to Duke to give a talk about the book and his research at the Duke University Law School.
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America by Wendy Woloson, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers-Camden, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2020. Dr. Woloson visited the Rubenstein Library as a Hartman Center grant recipient in 2017 and used the Advertising Ephemera Collection and the Arlie Slabaugh Collection of Direct Mail Literature.
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Announcing our 2020-2021 Travel Grant Recipients
April 22, 2020 Kate Collins
The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020-2021 travel grants. Our research centers annually award travel grants to students, scholars, and independent researches through a competitive application process. We extend a warm congratulations to this year's awardees. We look forward to meeting and working with you!
Please note that due to widespread travel restrictions, the dates for completing travel during this grant cycle have been extended through December 2021.
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture (Mary Lily Research Grants):
Dena Aufseeser, Faculty, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, "Family Labor, Care, and Deservingness in the US."
Elvis Bakaitis, Adjunct Reference Librarian, The Graduate Center, CUNY, "The Queer Legacy of Dyke Zines."
Emily Larned, Faculty, Art and Art History, University of Connecticut, "The Efemmera Reissue Project."
Sarah Heying, Ph.D. candidate, University of Mississippi, "An Examination of the Relationship Between Reproductive Politics and Southern Lesbian Literature Since 1970."
Susana Sepulveda, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, "Travesando Chicana Punk", an examination of Chicana punk identity formations through the production of cultural texts.
Tiana Wilson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin, "No Freedom Without All of Us: Recovering the Lasting Legacy of the Third World Women's Alliance."
John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture:
Brandon Render, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, "Color-Blind University: Race and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century."
Erin Runions, Faculty, Department of Religious Studies, Pomona College, "Religious Instruction of Slaves on Fallen Angels and Hell in the Antebellum Period."
Katherine Burns, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Edinburgh, "'Keep this Unwritten History:' Mapping African American Family Histories in 'Information Wanted' Advertisements, 1880-1902."
Leonne Hudson, Faculty, Department of History, Kent State University, "Black American in Mourning: Their Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln."
Matthew Gordon, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Georgia, "American Memory and Martin Luther King, 1968-1983."
Michael LeMahieu, Faculty, Department of English, "Post '54: The Reconstruction of Civil War Memory in American Literature after Brown v. Board."
Harry H. Harkins T'73 Travel Grants for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History:
Amanda Stafford, Ph.D. candidate, School of History, University of Leeds, "The Radical Press and the New Left in Georgia, 1968-1976."
Caitlyn Parker, Ph.D. candidate, American Studies Department, Purdue University, "Lesbians Politically Organizing Against the Carceral State from 1970-2000."
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History:
Andrew Wasserman, Independent Scholar, "The Public Art of Public Relations: Creating the New American City."
Austin Porter, Faculty, Department of Art History and American Studies, Kenyon College, "Bankrolling Bombs: How Advertisers Helped Finance World War II."
Elizabeth Zanoni, Faculty, Department of History, Old Dominion University, "Flight Fuel: A History of Airline Cuisine, 1945-1990."
Hossain Shahriar, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Business Administration, School of Economics & Management, Lund University, "Gender Transgressive Advertising: A Multi-Sited Exploration of Fluid Gender Constructions in Market-Mediated Representations."
Jesse Ritner, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, "Making Snow: Weather, Technology, and the Rise of the American Ski Industry, 1900-Present."
Joseph Larnerd, Faculty, Department of Art History, Drexel University, "Undercut: Rich Cut Glass in Working-Class Life in the Gilded Age."
Katherine Parkin, Faculty, Department of History and Anthropology, Monmouth University, "Asian Automakers in the United States, 1970-1990."
Meg Jones, Faculty, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University, "Cookies: The Story of Digital Consent, Consumer Privacy, and Transatlantic Computing."
Ricardo Neuner, Ph.D. candidate, University of Konstanz, "Inside the American Consumer: The Psychology of Buying in Behavioral Research, 1950-1980."
Stanley Fonseca, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Southern California, "Cruising: Capitalism, Sexuality, and Environment in Cruise Ship Tourism, 1930-2000."
History of Medicine Collections:
Jackson Davidow, Theory and History of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, "Picturing a Pandemic: South African AIDS Cultural Activism in a Global Context."
Lisa Pruitt, Faculty, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University, "Crippled: A History of Childhood Disability in America, 1860-1980."
Morgan McCullough, Ph.D. candidate, Lyon G. Tyler Department of History, William and Mary, "Material Bodies: Race, Gender, and Women in the Early American South."
Human Rights Archive:
Andrew Seber, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago, "Neither Factory nor Farm: The Fallout of Late-Industrial Animal Agriculture in America, 1970-2000."
Eugene (Charlie) Fanning, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, "Empire of The Everglades: A Global History of Agribusiness, Labor, and the Land in 20th Century South Florida."
Jennifer Leigh, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, New York University, "Public Health vs. Pro-gun Politics: The Role of Racism in the Silencing of Research on Gun Violence, 1970-1996."
Richard Branscomb, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University, "Defending the Self, Preserving Community: Gun Rights, Paramilitarization, and the Radical Right, 1990-2005."
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Applications Now Accepted for the 2020-2021 Travel Grant Program
November 25, 2019 Kate Collins
The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library is now accepting applications for our 2020-2021 travel grants. If you are a researcher, artist, or activist who would like to use sources from the Rubenstein Library's research centers for your work, this means you!
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture, the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, the History of Medicine Collections, and the Human Rights Archive will each award up to $1,500 per recipient ($2,000 for international applicants to the Human Rights Archive) to fund travel and other expenses related to visiting the Rubenstein Library. The Rubenstein Library also awards up to $1,500 for individuals who would benefit from access to our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender history collections through the Harry H. Harkins, Jr. T'73 Travel Grant.
The grants are open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, independent scholars, artists, and activists who live more than 100 miles from Durham, North Carolina, and whose research projects would benefit from access to collections held by one of the centers listed above.
More details—and the grant application—may be found on our grants website. Applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 PM EST on January 31, 2020. Recipients will be announced in March 2020.
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A Punk Female Divine
October 21, 2019 Kate Collins
Post contributed by Chiara Amoretti, PhD candidate, University of Bristol, UK
Natal Chart found in Box 32, Folder 6 of the Kathy Acker Papers
After the generous award of a Mary Lily Research Grant, I travelled to Duke University this winter to conduct research for my doctoral dissertation, a study on modern and contemporary women writers and the creation of a female divine. My project focuses on three authors, including Kathy Acker, so I was excited to have the opportunity to consult the Kathy Acker Papers housed here at the Rubenstein Library. The collection spans notebooks, drafts, typescripts, annotations, correspondence and much more. My research goal was to find any evidence that Acker engaged with religion and religious discourse or texts, but more importantly how she engaged with it. To better understand her published work's fragmented use of such suggestions, I wanted to see how Acker had originally worked them into her texts.
In order to do this, I studied the many notebooks containing Acker's drafts for her novels and other unpublished material. Her drafts amazed me not just for the evidence of relentless work and self-editing that she put her writing through, but especially for the many different uses of heterodox religious language that appear therein. I was particularly struck to find one of her notebooks containing a discussion of her cancer treatment, in an extended metaphor, as a Shamanic initiation rite. This seems to highlight the spiritual significance, for Acker, of her choice of alternative medicine, and a way to reclaim her lived experience in response to her diagnosis.
The archive also illuminated my understanding of Acker's fascination with para-religious activities and discourses. Her interest in astrology, which her published work hints at, takes on deeper meaning after seeing the natal charts of herself, and other people in her life, that Acker consulted. This shows her attachment to diverse forms of spiritual meaning-making, especially towards the end of her life. My visit to the Acker Papers has been invaluable for my research, showing me many unexpected ways in which Acker devised her own spiritual narrative experimentation.
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Why Do We Trust Doctors?
Post contributed by Laura Smith, a Doctoral Candidate, History Department at the University of Arkansas. She is a 2019-2020 History of Medicine Collections travel grant recipient.
This question was the starting point for my dissertation research, and it has guided every research trip I have taken in my quest to understand how medical education functioned in the 1800s. The answer? It depends on the time period. In the 19th century, this wasn't a question easy to answer. People didn't always trust doctors, and they didn't really start until medical schools began to provide enough clinical experience for their graduates to consistently produce better health outcomes for patients. I came to Duke to better understand the evolution of clinical experience in medical schools of the 1800s. These pictures trace that history.
Frederick Augustus Davisson went to Lexington, KY in the 1830s on his journey to becoming a physician. He took classes at Transylvania medical school from its most notable professors, Drs. Caldwell and Dudley, men whose publications and work in their communities initially gave Transylvania a decent reputation as far as medical schools went in this era. Davisson took good notes. He recorded the books that were suggested for him to read, books popular at the time.
Davisson's entry of medical books recommended to him.
His notes also reflect that medical knowledge in the 1800s was experimental, controversial, and personal as his writings reflect the differing opinions of his professors. "Dr. Dudley thinks his own plan better than any" for treating the retention of fluid in the genitals as it is "far more certain less painful and greatly more expeditious." Dudley used a knife to drain fluid as opposed to a needle, explaining the benefits of each to his students.
Davisson's notes describing Dr. Dudley's approach to a procedure.
The idea that medical knowledge was not solidified but debated in this era hints that a major challenge to the authority of doctors was surprisingly the slander of other physicians and schools. When Dr. James Conquest Cross, a professor at Transylvania, released a pamphlet on why Louisville, KY needed a medical school, many wondered how another school could be necessary when Lexington already had Transylvania so nearby. In the pamphlet, Cross argued that Transylvania's school offered no actual experience in hospitals, no dissections, and therefore practiced antiquated medicine. Students improved with the advice of practicing physician-instructors, but nothing compared with the experience of practicing medicine themselves. Questioning the merit of Transylvania, Cross asked, "Who has ever seen a human body opened before the medical class, for pathological purposes? Which of her numerous alumni ever made, a pathological dissection under the eyes of one of her teachers? Of that individual we confess, we are just as ignorant as we are of the inhabitants of the moon." Until Transylvania aligned with a teaching hospital like a school at Louisville would, it could not graduate credible physicians. The Rubenstein Library's collections show rebuttal from Transylvania, however. The medical class of 1834 defended their professors, argued they had dissecting experience, and claimed Cross invented lies because of disappointment about being refused a higher position on the faculty. If it's difficult for us to know who to believe in this debate, it was even more difficult for the public watching this conflict unfold.
Statement from the medical students at Transylvania University defending their professors.
In the end, Louisville did build a medical school. Louisville Medical Institute wooed students with the promise of study in a working hospital, and Duke's papers from Courtney J. Clark give a rare glimpse into what that early clinical experience looked like. Clark traveled from Alabama to take courses at the Louisville Medical Institute in the same era that Davisson went to Kentucky, and while Clark had similar lecture experience from Kentucky physicians, he also had notes from real cases he studied that Davisson did not. As Clark observed patients in the Louisville Marine Hospital, he learned from his practice, but his work and the work of the LMI faculty also benefitted the poor of the community who could receive low-cost medical care. Clark recorded the prescriptions and health plans of other physicians while closely monitoring the success of patients. When most medical history books praise the progressive teaching methods of Northern schools, these notes show that the medical schools of the US South made clear attempts to give experience while attempting to foster positive relationships with their communities.
Clark's notes describing his examination of a patient.
This comparison between two Kentucky medical schools through the notebooks of students shed light on how division within the medical community hurt physician trust. Rifts between schools like that between the cities of Lexington and Kentucky turned into ugly and public spectacles partly because for-profit schools competed so intensely for students and prestige. Ironically, long-lasting feuds between schools presented the public with a feeling that doctors could not be trusted as they could not even come to agreement among themselves, and in this way, doctors in the 1800s eroded their own medical authority.
So why do we trust doctors now? We trust doctors because most of us have agreed to trust science and evidence-based conclusions. We trust doctors when they time and again heal us. But perhaps, we also trust doctors because they appear unified, a surprisingly recent development in medical history offering a cautionary tale useful in our own professional and public divisions. Yes, even in 2019.
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Curating the Self: The Dawn Langley Simmons Papers and Transgender History
June 11, 2019 Kate Collins
Post contributed by Adrian Kane, doctoral candidate in History at the University of Washington
I travelled to the Rubenstein Library this winter, with generous support from the new Harry H. Harkins Jr. T'73 Research Grants, to conduct research for my dissertation "Narrating Sex: Transitional Bodies and 'Expertise' in the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1945-1970." The Dawn Langley Simmons papers, a collection of correspondence and ephemera related to the English-born Charlestonian author, offer an unusually rich portrait of the life of a woman of transgender experience in the 1960s and 70s—one all the more valuable because Simmons played an active role in the archive's construction.
Simmons, a prolific biographer in her own right, was keenly aware of the way textual evidence shapes memory. Her sequence of donations to Duke chronicle her 1968 transition and marriage to John-Paul Simmons—the first marriage between a white woman and Black man in South Carolina, she claimed—as well as her struggles with racist violence, housing instability and single-income working motherhood. Many of the documents bear Simmons's marginal comments in colorful ink, explaining in-jokes or clarifying her relationship to the correspondent. Her 1975 diary, for example, closes with a list of "Points of Int." written on the inside flyleaf, while the bland, newsy letters from her sister Fay assume a different tone in light of Simmons's comment that Fay and her right-wing "Powellite" family refused to see her in person after her wedding.
Front endpapers of Dawn Langley Simmons's diary
What is largely absent from either the letters or the marginalia, however, is the suggestion that transition was a central part of her identity or a primary source of adversity in her life. Of all the letters she chose to donate only one expresses disapproval of her transition, and her friends in the United States and England alike seem to have readily adopted her new name and pronouns. This may, of course, reflect curation on her part. But even if there are deliberate gaps in the archival record, it is significant that Simmons chose to preserve vacation postcards and programs from her daughter's Christmas pageants rather than accounts of her changing body or any hostility she endured because of it. Even today, after all, trans people are expected to recount feelings of gender-based misery in order to access basic healthcare and legal support, and, as an historian, I had assumed that the pressure to reproduce the "correct" narrative would have been still greater in the early days of the Johns Hopkins gender identity clinic. Yet Simmons seems to have taken active steps to ensure that no future biographer could reduce her life to a simplistic tale of suffering and its surgical redemption. She was a writer, a mother, a lover of antiques and old houses, a bon vivant, a restless soul with one foot planted on either side of the Atlantic—all of these aspects of her identity come to the fore in the Dawn Langley Simmons papers, and serve as a reminder that published or institutional records of transition cannot fully represent the way mid-twentieth century trans people understood themselves.
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The Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019-2020 travel grants! Our research centers annually award travel grants to students, scholars, and independent researchers through a competitive application process. Congratulations to this year's recipients:
Emily Fleisher, Artist: Artistic project will include a series of drawings based on historic needlework that create a narrative about the lives of American women before 1920
Charlie Jeffries, Faculty, University of East Anglia: Your Best American Girl: Construction of Adolescent Sexualities in the US Culture Wars
Laura Kenner, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture Department: Text, Sex, and Video: New York City's Downtown/Underground Scene (1973-1996)
Nell Lake, Doctoral Candidate, Brown University, American Studies Department: Research for dissertation that will link 20th century moral discourse around care and domestic labor with 20th century politics of women's work
Jessica Lapp, Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information: The Provenance of Protest: An Exploration of Feminist Activist Archiving
Kaja Marczewska, Research Fellow, Coventry University, Centre for Postdigital Cultures: Distribute-it-Yourself: Judy Hogan and the History of North American Small Press in Circulation (1960s-1990s)
Jennifer Withrow, Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Economics Department: Three Essays on Labor and Marriage Markets: Farm Crisis and Rural-to-Urban Migration in the United States, 1920-1940
Selena Doss – Faculty, Western Kentucky University, Involuntary Pilgrimage: Black Southerners and Territorial Separatism, 1783-1904
John Harris – Faculty, Erskine College, Pirates of New York: The United States and the Final Era of the Illegal Slave Trade, 1850-1867
Jacqueline Fewkes – Faculty, Florida Atlantic University, American Mosques: An Ethnohistory of Space, Memory, and Muslim-American Community
Crystal Sanders – Faculty, Penn State, America's Forgotten Migration: Black Graduate Education in the Age of Jim Crow
Kali Tambree – Doctoral Candidate UCLA, Enslaved African peoples who jump off of the slave ship as it is en route to the Americas
Charles Weisenberger – Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts-Amherst "The Telfair Family and the Antebellum One Percent: Slavery in the Early United States, 1735-1875"
Sarah Arnold, Faculty, Maynooth University, Department of Media: Television, Technology and Gender: New Platforms and New Audiences
Mark Bartholomew, Faculty, University of Buffalo, School of Law: "Advertising Outrage and its Legal Regulation"
Rachel Kirby, Doctoral Candidate, Boston University, American and New England Studies: Study of visual representation of Southern agricultural products
Shayan Lallani, Doctoral Candidate, University of Ottowa, Department of History: Cultural Globalization in the Caribbean: Dining and the American Middle-Class Turn in Cruise Ship Tourism, 1920-2016
Adam Mack, Faculty, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts Department: Limitless: Supermarkets and the Dilemma of Choice
Brent Malin, Faculty, Pittsburgh University, Department of Communications: Ordinary and Necessary: A History of the American Tax Deduction for Advertising
James McElroy, Doctoral Candidate, University of Minnesota, Department of History: Racial Segregation and Market Segregation: The Late-Twentieth Century History of the American City Supermarket, 1960-1990
Emily Morgan, Faculty, Iowa State University, Department of Visual Culture: Imagining Animal Industry: Visualizing the American Meatpacking Trade, 1890-1980
Robert Terrell, Faculty, Syracuse University, Department of History: The People's Drink: The Politics and Culture of German Beer in the Twentieth Century
Emily Westkaemper, Faculty, James Madison University, Department of History: Career Women: Image and Reality in U.S. Popular Culture, 1940-2000
Matthew Barrett, Doctoral Candidate, Queen's University, History Department: Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Doctor: Medical Attitudes toward Homosexuality and the Court-Martial of Dr. Percy E. Ryberg
Kelly O'Donnell, Faculty, Thomas Jefferson University, College of Humanities and Sciences: Study of the role doctors' wives played in the medical profession, recasting the history of American health care by focusing on the women behind the "great men" of medicine
Laura Smith, Doctoral Candidate, University of Arkansas, History Department: Southern Doctors from Southern Communities: Medical Education and Professionalization in the Nineteenth-Century South
Human Rights Archive (Marshall T. Meyer Research Travel Grants):
Meghan Gibbons, Independent Researcher: Nationalism and Maternal Protest in the US, El Salvador, and Argentina
Gabrielle Girard, Doctoral Candidate, Princeton University, History Department: Modeling Democracy: The Global History of an Argentine Human Rights Experiment, 1978-1991
Michael Jones, Doctoral Candidate, Tulane University, Department of Political Science: Blood & Peace in the Hills of Africa: Post-conflict Institutions in Comparison
Zachary Norman, Faculty, University of Utah, Department of Art & Art History: "Researching Images of Incarceration: Developing Visual Art & Studies Courses to be Taught Inside"
Mira Rai Waits, Faculty, Appalachian State University, Department of Art: Colonial Carcerality: The Birth of the Modern Prison in India
Jonathan Coleman, Independent Researcher: Anywhere, Together: A Queer History of Kentucky
Benjamin Serby, Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University, History Department: Gay Liberation and the Politics of the Self in Postwar America
Photographic Research Grants, Co-Sponsored by the Archive of Documentary Arts and the History of Medicine Collections:
Rachel Fein-Smolinski, Faculty, Syracuse University, Department of Transmedia: "Sex Lives of Animals Without Backbones: A Study of the Aesthetics of Pain and Courage Within the Western Healthcare System"
We look forward to working with you all!
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Gilded Age Cures for Soldiers Suffering from Opiate Addiction
February 20, 2019 mlp60@duke.edu
Post contributed by Jonathan S. Jones, historian and PhD candidate at Binghamton University
In the Civil War's wake, thousands of veterans became addicted to medicinal opiates. Hypodermic morphine injections and opium pills were standard remedies in the Civil War era for amputations, sickness, and depression, and they often lead to addiction. Take, for example, the case of A.W. Henley, a Confederate veteran, who recalled in 1878 that, "In the army, I had to use opiates for a complication of painful diseases." The medicine soon "fastened its iron grip on my very vitals, and held me enchained and enslaved for near fifteen years."[i]
Historians have long recognized the causative link between Civil War medical care and the high rate of opiate addiction among veterans. However, although we know that doctors were in many ways the originators of the postwar addiction epidemic, we know surprisingly little the about the medical response to the crisis. Did American doctors ignore the opiate addiction among veterans, or did physicians seek to help veterans suffering from addiction? And if so, what did those efforts look like?
These are questions I seek to answer in my dissertation, "A Mind Prostrate": Opiate Addiction in the Civil War's Aftermath." My research benefited greatly from a History of Medicine Collections Travel Grant, awarded by the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The History of Medicine Collections at the Rubenstein Library includes several manuscripts and rare items that suggest answers to elusive questions about the medical responses to Civil War veterans' opiate addiction.
Physicians fell under a wave of criticism after the Civil War for causing opiate addiction crisis. Veterans and observers in the media accused doctors of overprescribing opiates to ailing old soldiers and other patients, resulting in widespread opiate addiction. This criticism posed a problem for physicians—so-called "regular" doctors—because it undermined their precarious position in the hyper-competitive Gilded Age medical marketplace. Physicians had been struggling to out-compete alternative healing sects and "quacks" for decades. Being labeled the culprits for the crisis only weakened the regulars' footing in this struggle.
CHANGING PRESCRIBING PATTERNS
In response to this professional crisis, some physicians advocated for a move away from prescribing medicinal opiates. During the 1870s and 1880s, ex-military surgeons, in particular, exhorted their colleagues in medical journals and scientific studies to prescribe fewer opiates, to substitute the drugs with supposedly less-addictive painkillers, and even to refrain from prescribing opiates altogether. As the ex-Union surgeon Joseph Woodward surmised in 1879, "The more I learn of the behavior of such cases [of overprescribing] under treatment, the more I am inclined to advice that opiates should be as far as possible avoided."[ii] Such proposals were truly radical, considering that opiates were the most commonly prescribed medicines of the nineteenth century up to that point.
But did physicians heed these warnings? Were radical proposals merely hypothetical, or did physicians implement them in practice? To answer these questions necessitates the close analysis of late nineteenth century clinical records. I was fortunate enough to stumble across one such record in the History of Medicine Collections at the Rubenstein Library, a rare casebook from the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, professional home of the physician Silas Weir Mitchell.
Casebook from the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases, professional home of the physician Silas Weir Mitchell.
An eminent neurologist, Mitchell was one of the most vocal members of the anti-opiate camp. Mitchell—whose infamous "rest cure" inspired the feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman to write The Yellow Wallpaper, a feminist critique of Mitchell's methods—was a prolific writer. In many of his medical works, he railed against the habit-forming potential of medicinal opiates and doctors' role in facilitating opiate addiction. As Mitchell explained in an 1883 work about pain management, "often, in my experience, the opium habit is learned during an illness of limited duration, and for the consequences of which there is always some one to be blamed." He blamed doctors who were "weak, or too tender, or too prone to escape trouble by the easy help of some pain-lulling agent" for causing their patients to develop opiate addiction.[iii] Doctors must refrain from prescribing opiates empathetically, Mitchell warned, lest the medical profession continue to be blamed for the opiate addiction crisis.
Accordingly, Mitchell's clinical records confirm that he stopped prescribing opiates to chronic pain patients, those at greatest risk for addiction, in his own clinic. Mitchell's clinic, the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital, was the cutting edge of American neurology in the late nineteenth century. Doctors working there alongside Mitchell specialized in treating chronic nervous pains, headaches, and other symptoms classified under the diagnostic category of neuralgia. During the previous decades, most of these individuals would have been treated with opiates. Indeed, Mitchell prescribed opiates heavily during the Civil War, witnessing the genesis of opiate addiction in several of his patients. Yet by the 1880s, Mitchell reversed course. The clinic's casebook reveals Mitchell did not prescribe opiates to a single patient among the 62 individuals for which he recorded clinical notes between 1887 and 1900. Other physicians, I suspect, mirrored Mitchell's increasingly conservative approach to prescribing opiates during the Gilded Age.
But physicians like Mitchell were not alone in responding to the Gilded Age opiate epidemic. Ailing Americans could choose from a vast spectrum of treatments and healers to remedy their medical woes during late nineteenth century. Unlike today, regular physicians were often outcompeted by alternative healers during the Gilded Age. So-called "quacks"—at least, that is what physicians dubbed them—often impinged on physicians' customer bases.
Dozens of entrepreneurial healers spotted new commercial opportunities amidst the rising rates of opiate addiction. They invented and marketed a diverse array of treatments for opiate addiction between the late 1860s and the turn of the twentieth century. John Jennings Moorman, the proprietor of a nineteenth century West Virginia hot springs resort, exemplified this trend. I encountered a rare copy of Moorman's 1880 advertising pamphlet for his White Sulphur Springs resort in the Rubenstein Library. Founded in the late 1830s, Moorman marketed his exceedingly popular hot springs as a cure for a diverse spectrum of diseases during the antebellum years, from rheumatism to neuralgia, jaundice, scurvy, and others.
Front cover of Dr. J. J. Moorman's pamphlet about the curative properties of White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, 1880.
Always looking to expand his enterprise, Moorman perceived an opportunity in the rising rates of opiate addiction after the Civil War. Naturally, he expanded his operation to cater to opiate addicted customers desperate for a cure. Moorman began marketing White Sulphur Springs as a treatment for "opium eating" in 1880. Prior versions of Moorman's marketing material do not include references to opiate addiction.[iv]
Page from Dr. J. J. Moorman's pamphlet: White Sulphur Springs, with the analysis of its waters, the diseases to which they are applicable, and some account of society and its amusements at the Springs, 1880.
As Silas Weir Mitchell's casebook and John Jennings Moorman's advertising pamphlet indicate, Gilded Age medical practitioners responded to the opiate addiction crisis in diverse ways, from prescribing fewer opiates to marketing hot springs therapy for addiction. The rare medical manuscripts held by the History of Medicine Collections at the Rubenstein Library thus made significant contributions to my research, unlocking answers to elusive questions about the various medical responses to Civil War veterans' opiate addiction.
[i] Basil M. Woolley, The Opium Habit and its Cure (Atlanta: Atlanta Constitution Printer, 1879), 30.
[ii] Joseph Woodward, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Pt. II, vol. I (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1879), 750.)
[iii] S. Weir Mitchell, Doctor and Patient (Philadelphia: Lippincott Company, 1888), 93.
[iv] J.J. Moorman, White Sulphur Springs, with the analysis of its waters, the diseases to which they are applicable, and some account of society and its amusements at the Springs (Baltimore: The Sun Book and Job Printing Office, 1880), 25-26.
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The latest Path of Exile update has added new skills and massive performance improvements
on 19th of November 2016 @ 03:26 am UTC
If any of you played Path of Exile at some of the higher levels then you're most likely aware of how laggy things can become when you open a Strongbox and spawn an entire screen full of enemies. In most other games this would be a minor annoyance you can simply ignore, but since Path of Exile both supports and encourages playing in the perma-death mode it is a bit more serious than that!
To Grinding Gear Games' credit, however, they have done major reworks of the engine over the past few years in order to combat these issues, and the latest 2.4.2 patch is an extension of that effort. As for the results? In the couple of maps I've tested out so far the newly added (and currently experimental) 64-bit DX11 client did not suffer more than a few milliseconds of stuttering, even while using my patented 'fill the screen full of glowy stuff' build. Quite impressive given how taxing POE can get on the CPU!
If you're not up for using an experimental build, worry not as the standard DX9 client has received the very same performance upgrades as well. The reason the DX11 client has been implemented is because it has potential for further improvements in the future, improvements that could easily put it ahead of what's possible in the DX9 version. So while it currently might not be much of an upgrade over its predecessor, you can consider it future-proofing on GGG's side. And speaking of upgrades, its worth mentioning that all of these are targeted at CPU performance, so if you're having issues due to the strength of your GPU I'm afraid you're out of luck for the time being.
As for the three new skills, I've only been able to toy around with Blight so far, and my impressions are less than stellar... to put it lightly. Even on my fully geared, fully overpowered character I couldn't get that spell to be anything more than mediocre, though I'd imagine there's some super-secret build you can create in order to make it ridiculously strong. Here's the description for all three of them, maybe you can figure something out:
• Dexterity/Intelligence skill - Blade Flurry: Repeatedly strike at enemies in a circle in front of you while channelling, dealing damage to and around the struck enemy. The damage is continually boosted while channelling. You unleash an additional strike for each stage reached once the channelling ends. Requires a Dagger, Claw or One-Handed Sword.
• Intelligence skill - Scorching Ray: Unleash a beam of fire that burns enemies it touches, and decreases their fire resistance. Remaining in the beam intensifies the burning, adding a portion of the beam's damage in stages. Enemies who leave the beam continue to burn for a duration. Increasing cast speed also increases the rate at which the beam can turn.
• Intelligence skill - Blight: Apply a debuff to enemies in front of you which deals chaos damage over time. Enemies who aren't already debuffed by Blight are also hindered for a shorter secondary duration, slowing their movement. Continued channelling adds layers of damage to the debuff, each with their own duration.
On a somewhat unrelated note, if you've stumbled here without ever actually playing Path of Exile, allow me to show you why exactly its one of the finest ARPG games ever created!


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The effect of modern technology on businesses and organizations have felt enormous. These days, visitors are able to initiate trades with others which experts state are one mile away. On addition, solutions has also made virtual payment prospective.
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Ever felt that sliding a regular bag onto your back that merely allows you to carry your tech for your commute to work, your weekend getaway, or even that camping trip you've been meaning to take, leaves you wanting more.
It's 2018, mere storage space is no longer enough to satisfy the tech savvy millennial generation – introducing Smart Backpacks, here to alleviate that feeling of technological isolation during your day-to-day.
For a mere three figure sum, in most but not all cases, you can equip yourself with a stylish Smart Backpack designed to integrate itself with all of your tech. needs.
Running late to a meeting, taking care of some last-minute business on the go – with a charger integrated Smart Backpack battery life woes are a worry of the past.
Tired of the exhausting exercise of removing your laptop from your carry-on luggage when going through security? I think that's a resounding, yes, I hear. Then fret no more, with Smart Backpacks by your side, airport security will be able to scan your device from right inside your bag – an incredible time, and energy-saver.
As for your camping trip, you can keep your kindle ready and charged, with a handy nightlight for before bedtime reading.
Even catch those Instagram perfect pictures on your phone without it dying while listening to music during your ascent. All of it possible, because you got your hands on a Smart Backpack capable of keeping you plugged in and charged, and we'll brush over the notion that you went camping to escape the tech saturated lifestyle you've become addicted to.
So, are Smart Backpacks helpful or hype? Well, one thing we can say with certainty is that they are a luxury.
But to those who can afford it, or whose line of work deem it a necessity to remain plugged in for prolonged periods of time, then they have the potential to be very helpful indeed.
Let's look at some reasons why a Smart Backpack may assist you, in your day-to-day.
It's no secret that we now find ourselves in a tech. saturated environment. If you're working, you're expected to keep on top of your emails, clients, schedule, partners, meetings, etc., all while on the go.
In some cases, battery life reliance is essential. Using a Smart Backpack alleviates this concern, by simply plugging in while moving from meeting-to-meeting.
A simple stress reliever, but certainly an effective one.
We've all been guilty of a forgetful moment, leaving something behind at an event, or even our bag itself.
Well, there is now a Smart Backpack range designed to keep track of what you put inside it. Linked to an app. on your phone, it uses electronic tags to identify items you store in your bag and will send a notification should something be found missing.
The bag itself is hooked up with a GPS tracker, so during those rare but particularly forgetful moments, you'll be able to reunite yourself once more with your precious Smart Backpack.
As tech hungry people, we're particularly demanding in terms of energy use and capability.
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'Direct life insurance is about customer choice', MLC says
MLC Life Insurance has said its decision to expand the distribution of its direct-to-consumer life insurance product was based around customer choice.
by Adrian Flores - October 21, 2016 11 comments
Anand Thomas, MLC Life Insurance chief customer officer of bancassurance, digital & direct, told ifa that its decision to expand the distribution of its NAB Essential Life product via NAB's 760 branches was about giving customers the choice in deciding what's appropriate for them.
"Some customers might need to go to a financial planner and get more holistic protection, but some customers … just want access to the security of having life protection in a quick and easy way," Mr Thomas said.
"When you look at the trends that are happening all around the world, in terms of digitising and so forth, customers are becoming comfortable with operating in that channel, and their expectations of wanting things being done in a simpler way is improving.
"It's all about enabling that distribution channel to provide customers with that choice."
As for how direct life distribution would work alongside MLC's financial advice network, Mr Thomas said the initial decision would come from the customer before meeting up with an adviser.
"The banker would ask the customer whether they have a need to have life insurance," he said.
"If the customer says yes, then we provide options to the customer. Would they like to make time to meet with a financial planner to go through a needs-based analysis and get a fully underwritten insurance product?"
MLC said in a statement yesterday NAB Essential Life will be available online, over the phone and in NAB branches.
Customers will be able to purchase the cover through "an easy and speedy application process without the need to consult a financial adviser or planner", the statement said.
Adrian Flores
Last Updated: 21 October 2016 Published: 21 October 2016
Adrian Flores is a deputy editor at Momentum Media, focusing mainly on banking, wealth management and financial services. He has also written for Public Accountant, Accountants Daily and The CEO Magazine.
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The Labor Reform and M&A Transactions
Christian Galvão Davies and	Silvia Fidalgo Lira 30/10/2017
Law No. 13,467, of July 13, 2017, which alters the Brazilian Labor Code (Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho - CLT), will become effective on November 11, 2017. The new legislation, referred to as "Labor Reform", brings innovations that can be relevant in mergers and acquisitions transactions, including a change in the definition of economic group (grupo econômico) and the limitation of liability of former shareholders.
Definition of Economic Group
The CLT and case law currently in force establish that whenever one or more legal entities are under the direction, control or management of another, an economic group exists, as a result of which each of the applicable companies may be held jointly and severally liable for labor obligations of the others, regardless of whether or not a group exists under corporate law.
For the characterization of an economic group, it is not necessary that different companies perform the same economic activities or that they are subject to the same control (vertical relation). The relationship between companies that form a same group may be established horizontally, by mere coordination, by means of participation in enterprises of common interest of the entities, as this allows the sharing of benefits and cash flows between them.
There are Labor Court decisions holding that simply by having shareholders in common (identidade de sócios) – whether individuals or entities – two or more companies may be deemed under to common control.
This is obviously a matter of great concern for any party intending to acquire a partial stake in a Brazilian legal entity, thereby risking being held liable for labor obligations not only of the target company, but also of its other shareholders and of the managing team.
Protection against such a risk is usually sought by means of indemnification clauses in the acquisition documents, which however often present difficulties. For instance, the contractual protections should be effective for the duration of the share holding and be binding on shareholders who might not have participated in the sale.
Under the Labor Reform, the mere existence of shareholders in common does not imply the existence of an economic group. Additional requisites should be verified case by case by the Labor Court, including the existence of common and integrated interests (comunhão de interesses and interesse integrado) and their joint operation (atuação conjunta) of the relevant companies.
Such changes by themselves, once the Labor Reform is effective, will substantially mitigate the risk of "cross contamination" commented above.
Labor Liability of a Former Shareholder
Article 1,032 of the Brazilian Civil Code limits the liability of the exiting shareholder for obligations of the company to a period of two years as from the date such party ceases to hold corporate interests therein. Due to the absence of provisions regarding this matter in the CLT currently in effect, case law determines that a party formerly entitled to corporate interests in a legal entity may be held liable for its labor obligations stemming from labor relations in effect during the period in which such party was a company stakeholder, regardless of the time elapsed after this party ceases to hold interests in the company.
According to the new rules, former shareholders may be held liable for labor obligations up to two years after departure, and such liability is subordinated to that of the company, in the first place, and of the current shareholders1.
Future Perspectives
As another significant innovation, the Labor Reform prevents precedents (súmulas) and other statements (enunciados) of the Brazilian Superior Labor Court (Tribunal Superior do Trabalho - TST) and of Regional Labor Courts (Tribunais Regionais do Trabalho - TRTs) restricting rights set forth by, or creating obligations that are not set forth in, statutory law, which will allow for greater predictability to transactions and work as an incentive for foreign investments in the country.
1The exiting stakeholder will be jointly and severally liable with the others when a fraud in the corporate documentation that formalizes the exit is demonstrated.
Christian Galvão Davies
Silvia Fidalgo Lira


As a kid, I would have been ecstatic to attend Hogwarts instead of my boring public school. But given the choice as an adult, even the promise of magic isn't enough to convince me to ever go back to school again. Why would I spend years studying textbooks and practicing potions when JAKKS Pacific's new Wizard Training Wands fast-forward me right to the best part of wizarding: running around with wands and blasting spells?
During my time at Hogwarts' correspondence school I trained using three different wands modeled after the magical sticks wielded by Harry Potter, Dumbledore, and Voldemort—aka he who must not be named—aka he who doesn't actually appear on the toy's packaging. Either Ralph Fiennes is very protective of his image, or just ashamed at how he looks without a nose.
They're a little thicker than the actual Harry Potter prop wands, but you don't have to completely rely on your imagination with these.
Having never attended the actual Hogwarts or had Ollivander choose a real wand for me, I can't say for certain if these feel like the real thing. But I have handled expensive prop replicas, and these are just as satisfying to flick around in the air. They're a little thicker, however, to make room for electronics, a tiny speaker, and three AAA batteries that power the wands instead of phoenix feathers or dragon heartstrings. There's no exotic woods used here either—at $25, each design is a plastic-on-plastic affair.
Voldemort's, Harry Potter's, and Dumbledore's wands.
Dumbledore's wand has the fanciest detailing, but Harry's simpler design is the most comfortable to hold. And as much fun as it is to be the heel, the hook on the end of Voldemort's wand makes it nigh impossible for southpaws to comfortably hold it in their left hands. Tom Riddle clearly chose form over function for his magical weapon, and maybe we now know the real reason he was defeated by a teenager: ergonomics.
The hook on the end of Voldemort's wand makes it tricky for southpaws to wield.
Although the simplest design, Harry Potter's wand was the most comfortable to hold.
To make them muggle-compatible, the wands use a combination of buttons and motion-sensing electronics to activate their imaginary capabilities. There are five modes of play, with four of them involving a series of 11 different spells that can be triggered by waving the wands around in the air in specific motions.
You'll work toward memorizing 11 different wand motions for casting various spells, but at times it can feel like actual homework.
This is where those of us with limited or precarious attention spans might get frustrated. There are modes that make learning and perfecting each of these specific spell motions less of a chore, but at times it can feel repetitive as you struggle to find the exact motions the internal gyroscope hardware is looking for.
There's certainly a feeling of satisfaction when you're able to reliably cast one of those 11 spells, and there's a quick-draw mode that lets you compete with others to see who can cast spells the fastest. But the real appeal of these wands is the Wizard Tag Mode, which ignores the spells altogether and simply allows multiple aspiring wizards to run around and shoot magical blasts at each other.
Wizard Tag Mode uses the wand's light-up buttons as a power meter, registering hits by turning the buttons off one-by-one.
The mode buttons on each wand light up to indicate each player's health (and turn off one-by-one every time you get hit), while a cast button is essentially your magical weapon's trigger. Get hit five times, and your wand is out of commission. As long as you're not expecting the same kind of range and accuracy that something like Nerf's new Laser Ops Pro blasters deliver, there's definitely some fun to be had here.
I found the wands maxed out at detecting hits somewhere around 15 to 20 feet away from each other, and at close range—just a couple of feet apart—you don't really need to aim your wand to damage your opponent. It's clear there are no lasers in use, and if you're looking for an experience that rivals an afternoon at the paintball range, you'll want to just go do that instead and pretend those little balls of paint are magical dragon eggs or something. This is a kid's toy, and will undoubtedly provide a fun experience to anyone under 10.
They're not the same as going to Hogwarts, but $25 is a lot cheaper than paying tuition.
Perfect replicas of the wands used throughout the Potter world can be found for around $30 to $40 if you're just looking for something to display. But nobody walks away from a Harry Potter movie wanting another piece of decor. You want to be a wizard and go to Hogwarts, and if you're OK with a little more studying in your life, it won't actually take that long to masterfully conjure all the spells these wands can simulate.


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