August 2010

The Reenactment of Wartime Pasts in Yasukuni

August 25, 2010

In Japan, August is the month of the dead.  It is the time of the year when spirits of the dead are believed to return home and when millions of people return “home” to greet them.   This past week, my family in Japan and I busied ourselves by cleaning the family tomb, sprucing up [...]

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Time Machine Being Built South of the Border

August 23, 2010

The first steps towards building a historical time machine are underway south of the border. A group of American history educators have founded an ambitious plan to create the “Civil War Augmented Reality Project.” This first time machine will be a literal window into the past. By taking advantage of smart phone and tablet computer [...]

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Place and Time: Old Photographs and New Technology

August 16, 2010

This week I was made aware of a great new website that I think not only has broad interest and appeal, but also a high level of cool. Historypin is a collaborative website where google maps and google street view is combined with user contributed photographs in order to provide the viewer with a doorway [...]

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Integrating History and Fashion: an interview with Dorothy Grant

August 11, 2010

Brittany Luby interviews fashion designer Dorothy Grant on the intersections of history, fashion, art and culture.

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Lessons of the Past: Equity, Equality and Education

August 9, 2010

Some reflections on teaching history, equity and equality in the university classroom.

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Memories of L’Anse aux Meadows

August 6, 2010

This is a blogpost about the 50th Anniversary Celebrations that L’Anse aux Meadows had in July 2010.

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Can We Redeem File-Sharing After the Download Decade?

August 3, 2010

The term “download decade” is an effective description of the first ten years of this infant century and the first rising chapter of the so-called Information Age. It accurately distills the blind conspiracy between the exponential availability of high-speed Internet, the gradual decrease in the cost of personal computers, the rise of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks [...]

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