Canadian and American Environmental Activism in the St. Lawrence Valley
Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spill On the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140 barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while plying the swift straits of the St. Lawrence River's Thousand Islands region. Before the spill was halted, 300,000 gallons of oil had leaked, ......
French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940
A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal Negotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of Senegal from 1848 to 1940. In this ......
French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940
A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial Senegal Negotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of Senegal from 1848 to 1940. In this ......
Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500-1700
Examining maps and placemaking during negotiations between Indigenous people and colonial settlers Between 1500 and 1700, Indigenous and English mapmakers across the North Atlantic depicted present-day New England in markedly distinct ways, highlighting how differently their communities understood the landscape. While English cartographers ......
A History of the First Four Children's Museums in the United States (1899-1965)
The Innovation and influence of the first children's museums in the US When it opened in 1899, the Brooklyn Children's Museum greeted visitors with a new experience. Rather than carefully ensconcing artifacts and curios behind protective glass, the staff took the unusual step of moving the objects out of their cases and into the hands of the ......
A History of the First Four Children's Museums in the United States (1899-1965)
The Innovation and influence of the first children's museums in the US When it opened in 1899, the Brooklyn Children's Museum greeted visitors with a new experience. Rather than carefully ensconcing artifacts and curios behind protective glass, the staff took the unusual step of moving the objects out of their cases and into the hands of the ......
Arguing for equality as the necessary foundation of liberty During Ralph Waldo Emerson' s lifetime, the idea of universal human equality was under intensive assault. Repeatedly - in contexts ranging from slavery, to marriage, to politics and workers' rights - Americans of the time were being told that equality was an obsolete ideal and that ......
Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change
Finding hope in a small farm, an engaged community, and an age-old connection to the earth After half a lifetime spent moving from place to place, Alexis Lathem at last settled down with her husband on a small farm near Vermont's largest city. The lyric essays of Lambs in Winter take readers through the seasonal cycles of raising sheep and ......
Elizabeth Lowe charts her journey to becoming a translator through a series of vignettes relating her life as a " third-culture kid" and living and working abroad in a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages. She lived in Germany as a young child immediately after the Second World War while her father worked in the Nuremburg trials and as a newly ......
