Links Miscellany

from LII weekly update

British Library Images Online
London Transport Museum Photographic Collection
Chinese Ceramics
PotWeb: Ceramics at the Ashmolean Museum
Pottery in Colonial America

Life and times of Frida Kahlo

Local History: Liverpool
Tennessee Encyclopaedia of history and Culture
Mind and Body: Descartes to William James
Purim

LII Links Miscellany

Fifty Years of Supporting Children’s Learning: A History of Public School Libraries and Federal Legislation from 1953–2000
March of Dimes: From Polio to Prematurity
Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War

The Medieval Science Page

Pop Culture
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996

Robert C Williams American Museum of Papermaking
Thomas Gravell Watermark Archive
Chambers's Book of Days 1879

The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords

From the LII weekly update

IWD, Belated

Sharon must have forgotten to mention her excellent collection of links for International Women's Day as well as the addresses that she highlighted at her blog.

• Anne Bradstreet
• Elizabeth I
• Susan Owen
• Women's Petition (1649)
• Katherine Philips
• Gluckel of Hameln
• Sojourner Truth
• Juliana of Norwich

Cleveland in Flames

Pratie Place examines the causes of the 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River and the response of the city.

... On June 23, 1969, Cleveland's oily, contaminated Cuyahoga River caught fire. Flames climbed as high as five stories until fireboats brought it under control. The fire was attributed to wastes dumped into the river by the waterfront industries. Cleveland at the time was not particularly impressed. The Chief of Police was not called; the regular crew, which was always dispersing oil slicks and watching for river fires, had it under control in under half an hour. The only picture (left), taken after the fire was pretty much out, ran in two local papers the next day, but the only story was brief and buried. ...

Check out the great quotes.

Cologne, Nullzeit

I looked at the liberation of Cologne in 1945.

The image of the cathedral, surrounded by the rubble, was also a reminder that the past -- the mythic past of German nationalism -- was irretrievable. What was left behind was the city made by the empire; what remained was the medieval city and its faith.

I also found some links to the music of the Edelweiss Pirates, a youth group that opposed the Hitler Jugend, and posted Eric Johnson's description of youth and persecution in Nazi Germany.

Protestant Sermons

Flos Carmeli takes a Catholic look at love in the works of Jonathan Edwards (via Siris).

It is my belief that Jonathan Edwards, along with William Law, George Whitefield, George Fox, William Penn, Jeremy Taylor, and a smattering of others, is one of a very elite group of protestant mystics whom God granted the grace to see far and see hard.
As a result Edwards did produce some remarkable works centered on love, affection, and compassion.

Canada and the American Civil War

I've just posted an old essay of mine on the impact of the American Civil War on Canada at my blog. Should be of interest to some of you.

Links Miscellany

From the LII Weekly Update

Photograph collections from American Memory:
African American photos for Paris Exposition 1900
Fenton Crimean War photographs
Bain collection
Matson negatives (Middle east)

Women's history links
Celebrate Women's History Month
History of women in sports timeline
Timeline of American women's rights movement

The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert (English translations)
Gravely gorgeous: gargoyles, grotesques and the nineteenth-century imagination
History of St Patrick's day
The complete Andersen (Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales)
Kraus collection of Sir Francis Drake
Milestones in garbage (timeline of waste management)
NY Food museum
Sanborne fire insurance maps (maps of early 20th century American cities)
Who's who of Victorian cinema

A cultural miscellany

A belated run through my emails...

* Columbia University's Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) website "features innovative and easy-to-use materials for teaching about East Asia at the undergraduate level".

* Not for males of a delicate disposition ... Foreskin incision and circumcision in the Pacific Region. And for an account of modern practices Penis enhancements.

* New contents to the web site of the Irish Argentine Historical Society: "St. Patrick's Day in Peru, 1824" by Brian McGinn; "St. Patrick's Day, Buenos Aires, 1905" by Edward Walsh; Dictionary of Irish-Argentine Biography. William Brown, Edelmiro Farrell; Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection at Universidad de San Andrés's Max von Buch Library

* Sacrifice Lost and Found--Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka: This article analyses how the colonial government and the post-independence state viewed and dealt with rituals involving violence that were rooted in the regional community ...