Why the ‘Redskins’ is a Racist Name
Click 'Play' to Listen to the Lecture Download Lecture (Right Click and Save) Download from iTunes Subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes For quite some time now there has been a sizable controversy surrounding the name of the Washington Redskins with numerous Native American groups and individuals, along with a ...
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Digital Archaeology: E.T. Atari 2600
E.T. by Atari is widely regarded as one of the worst videogames ever created. Based upon the wildly popular film Steven Spielberg, it was made in under six weeks by a single developer working on hardware that was, by 1982 standards, utterly archaic. The Atari 2600, the console on which the game was released, had just ...
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Hard Times Come Again No More – Folk Music of the Civil War
Click 'Play' to Listen to the Lecture Download Lecture MP3 Download from iTunes Although it is easy to think in terms of division when thinking about the American Civil War, there were experiences which united those on both sides of the divide. Although the deadliest war in American history, many more lives ...
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CFP: The Making of the Trans-Appalachian West
[caption id="attachment_1424" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Image by Valerius Tygart[/caption] Call For Papers The Making of the Trans-Appalachian West: Society, Culture, and Peoples, 1754-1832 Edited by Darren R. Reid (Coventry University) "More than an extension of the British colonial backcountry, ...
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The Silent Film Festival App for Android Tablets and Phones
The Silent Film Festival app brings four classic movies with new educational audio commentaries to your Android tablet or phone. The app is, as with everything on this site, open access (i.e. free) and presents the four episodes from The Artist in American History podcast films studies series from late 2013 and early ...
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Why Comic Books Matter: V for Vendetta and the Occupy Movement
The Comic Book Studies series currently running on The Artist in American History has a brand new episode. "Why Comic Books Matter", the fifth entry in the Comic Book Series, explores some of the reasons why comic books are deserving of academic study and attention. This episode takes a look at Alan Moore's V ...
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A Song of the South – Decoding Dixie
'Dixie' -the unofficial anthem of the Confederate States of America- is one of the most controversial and divisive songs in American history. For many modern day appreciators of the track, 'Dixie' is a charming, nostalgic look at the American South, a celebration of the region's sense of its own identity. To its ...
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