African Anthropology: Khoisan language, Asante Stool Histories, Ceremonies
Michael Gallagher This is a video I created in 2008 to highlight some of the materials available in the collections here. It highlights some fairly amazing content and most of it hadn’t…
February 2010
The Band: Canada, America, Blogging, and Bliss
I don’t claim to know anything about music. I mean I can’t read music, write music, even play music. Although I do a mean air guitar. It took a good…
AP, Asia Correspondent: Chinese Ships from the 1400s off the coast of Kenya
This article from the Associated Press via Asia Correspondent brought out the armchair historian/Indiana Jones style of archaeology in me. “China and Kenya plan to search for ancient Chinese ships…
Music for 2.23.2010: Holly Miranda’s Waves
Today’s song of the day is actually from an album that was just released today and one which I have been waiting for quite some time. The artist’s name is…
2010 NFAIS Conference in Philadelphia
I will be attending the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 2010 Conference beginning this weekend in Philadelphia and the lineup is looking like a good one. From a…
Isan’s Gunnera: A lazy post, all rights reserved
And sometimes I reserve the right to lazily post YouTube clicks of bands I like. In this case it is Isan and the track is called Gunnera and both the…
Digital Media: Subway Maps as Tools for Teaching History
You can file this post more under ‘teaching ideas’ than anything particularly original. If I were to wait for something truly original to conjure itself in my head, then I…