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Covid Edition, Journal Of Hip Hop Studies Dec 2021

Covid Edition, Journal Of Hip Hop Studies

Journal of Hip Hop Studies

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Commonwealth Times 2021-01-20 Jan 2021

Commonwealth Times 2021-01-20

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Founding Monsters Tales, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means Jan 2021

Founding Monsters Tales, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means

Founding Monsters

The creative team behind the Founding Monsters comic book—Maggie Colangelo and Dr. Bernard K. Means—bring you Founding Monsters Tales. Founding Monsters Tales features all-new art by Maggie and explores and expands on themes in Founding Monsters. Meet again Moses Williams, an enslaved servant of the Peale family who not only helped reconstruct the first mastodon skeleton, but was an unheralded artist in his own right. Find out whether mastodons were meat eaters, and how they differed from mammoths. Learn whether Thomas Jefferson was correct in his interpretation of what he called “the great claw.” Discover what Jefferson thought …


Founding Monsters, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means Jan 2021

Founding Monsters, Maggie Colangelo, Bernard Means

Founding Monsters

The Founding Monsters comic book was created as a science-friendly graphical storytelling framework that tells the story of the Founding Fathers and their obsession with prehistoric megafauna, especially mastodons and giant ground sloths. Founding Monsters combines sequential art (e.g. comic book style) with historical and scientific data. The first mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils were found in New York in the early 18th century. Later in the 18th century, Thomas Jefferson was sent fossils from what is now West Virginia for what were eventually identified as bones from a giant ground sloth (Megalonyx jeffersoni). The founding fathers, …


Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2021) Jan 2021

Pwatem: An Anthology Of Literature And Art (2021)

Pwatem (Poictesme), 2006-

Pwatem is an anthology of literature and art from undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University. Pwatem publishes poetry, prose and art of all kinds from talented undergraduate students of all majors.