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Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith Nov 2014

Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Monet and Renoir, friends collaborating in open air about 1865, discovered that sunlight filtering through a canopy of tree leaves does not produce the splotches and dapples that studio artists conventionally represented at the time but circles of light. Sometimes the circles of light punctuating the shade are clear, separate and crisp, as though light is being propagated as particles, but if the pin-hole gaps between leaves are very close together, they will project compound or superimposed circles that look like the waves that Thomas Young saw in his double slit experiment in 1803-4. Newton’s Opticks published in 1704 had …


Jeanne D'Arc: Maid Of Oleans, A Prose/Poem 6/4/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jun 2014

Jeanne D'Arc: Maid Of Oleans, A Prose/Poem 6/4/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

A poem introducing a theory of how Joan, an illiterate teenager, inspired a demoralized French army to defeat the English.


Heritage Interpretation As Public Discourse: Towards A New Paradigm, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2013

Heritage Interpretation As Public Discourse: Towards A New Paradigm, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Discourses Of Development: Narratives Of Cultural Heritage As An Economic Resource, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2012

Discourses Of Development: Narratives Of Cultural Heritage As An Economic Resource, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Heritage Interpretation And Human Rights: Documenting Diversity, Expressing Identity, Or Establishing Universal Principles?, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2012

Heritage Interpretation And Human Rights: Documenting Diversity, Expressing Identity, Or Establishing Universal Principles?, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Finding Rosie: Documenting The World War Ii Home Front Experience Of The American West Through Oral History, Samuel Redman Jan 2012

Finding Rosie: Documenting The World War Ii Home Front Experience Of The American West Through Oral History, Samuel Redman

Samuel Redman

This article describes an ongoing oral history project with the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. It explains how the team frames its research, understands the audience for oral histories, details how individuals are selected for interviews, and outlines the project’s various new initiatives.


The Hearst Museum Of Anthropology, The New Deal, And A Reassessment Of The ‘‘Dark Age’’ Of The Museum In The United States, Samuel Redman Mar 2011

The Hearst Museum Of Anthropology, The New Deal, And A Reassessment Of The ‘‘Dark Age’’ Of The Museum In The United States, Samuel Redman

Samuel Redman

This article examines the claim that the period between the dawn of the Great Depression and conclusion of the Second World War was a “dark age” for the discipline of anthropology in museums. It argues that while museums in the United States encountered numerous common challenges due to the economic downturn and outbreak of war, the period also presented a number of opportunities, especially through the arrival of labor through New Deal work-relief agencies. This article focuses on what is now known as the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. The narrative of the …


Heritage Interpretation And Human Rights: Documenting Diversity, Expressing Identity, Or Establishing Universal Principles?, Neil A. Silberman Mar 2011

Heritage Interpretation And Human Rights: Documenting Diversity, Expressing Identity, Or Establishing Universal Principles?, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Validation, Resistance, And Exclusion: Neo-Nationalist Cultural Heritage In A Globalized World, Neil A. Silberman Nov 2010

Validation, Resistance, And Exclusion: Neo-Nationalist Cultural Heritage In A Globalized World, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Between Home And History, Neil A. Silberman Sep 2010

Between Home And History, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


The Tyranny Of Narrative, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2010

The Tyranny Of Narrative, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Who Should Care For The Dead? Balancing Religious Rights With Civic Responsibilities, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2010

Who Should Care For The Dead? Balancing Religious Rights With Civic Responsibilities, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Rewriting Jewish History, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2010

Rewriting Jewish History, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Postcolonial, Neo-Imperial, Or A Little Bit Of Both?: Reflections On Museums In Lebanon, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2010

Postcolonial, Neo-Imperial, Or A Little Bit Of Both?: Reflections On Museums In Lebanon, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Review Of Innovation In History: The New Woman Resources Book, Madeleine K. Charney Jan 2010

Review Of Innovation In History: The New Woman Resources Book, Madeleine K. Charney

Madeleine K. Charney

No abstract provided.


"Silly Creations Of An Imagination That Is Not Conscious Of Its Freaks": Multiple Selves, Wordless Communication, And The Psychology Of Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, Randall Knoper Jan 2009

"Silly Creations Of An Imagination That Is Not Conscious Of Its Freaks": Multiple Selves, Wordless Communication, And The Psychology Of Mark Twain's No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

No abstract provided.


Process Not Product: The Icomos Ename Charter (2008) And The Practice Of Heritage Stewardship, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2009

Process Not Product: The Icomos Ename Charter (2008) And The Practice Of Heritage Stewardship, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Meine Jugend In Traiskirchen, Otto Vogl Jan 2009

Meine Jugend In Traiskirchen, Otto Vogl

Otto Vogl

No abstract provided.


Icomos Charter For The Interpretation And Presentation Of Cultural Heritage Sites, Neil A. Silberman Oct 2008

Icomos Charter For The Interpretation And Presentation Of Cultural Heritage Sites, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Partitioning The Past, Neil A. Silberman Apr 2008

Partitioning The Past, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Chronology Of The Drafting, Review, And Revision Of The Proposed Icomos Charter For The Interpretation And Presentation Of Cultural Heritage Sites, Neil A. Silberman Jul 2007

Chronology Of The Drafting, Review, And Revision Of The Proposed Icomos Charter For The Interpretation And Presentation Of Cultural Heritage Sites, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Trauma And Sexual Inversion, Circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy And Maladies Of Representation, Randall Knoper Jan 2007

Trauma And Sexual Inversion, Circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy And Maladies Of Representation, Randall Knoper

Randall Knoper

No abstract provided.


Cultural Heritage And The Information Technologies: Facing The Grand Challenges And Structural Transformations Of The 21st Century, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2007

Cultural Heritage And The Information Technologies: Facing The Grand Challenges And Structural Transformations Of The 21st Century, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Reshaping Waterloo: History, Archaeology, And The European Heritage Industry, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2007

Reshaping Waterloo: History, Archaeology, And The European Heritage Industry, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Two Archaeologies, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2007

Two Archaeologies, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Sustainable Heritage? Public Archaeological Interpretation And The Marketed Past, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2007

Sustainable Heritage? Public Archaeological Interpretation And The Marketed Past, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Beyond Theme Parks And Digitized Data: What Can Cultural Heritage Technologies Contribute To The Public Understanding Of The Past?, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2005

Beyond Theme Parks And Digitized Data: What Can Cultural Heritage Technologies Contribute To The Public Understanding Of The Past?, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.


Engineering The Perfect Cup Of Coffee: Samuel Prescott And The Sanitary Vision At Mit, Larry Owens Oct 2004

Engineering The Perfect Cup Of Coffee: Samuel Prescott And The Sanitary Vision At Mit, Larry Owens

Larry Owens

No abstract provided.


Racial Terror & The Attempt To Stop The Desegregation Of Lamar State College Of Technology, Amilcar Shabazz Jan 2004

Racial Terror & The Attempt To Stop The Desegregation Of Lamar State College Of Technology, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

The desegregation of Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont was marked by racial terror. The clash at Lamar climaxed a protracted antidiscrimination campaign that developed during the Second World War, escalated in 1949 when Lamar grew from a locally supported junior college to a state-supported senior college, and turned into a court battle in the wake of the victorious 1950 Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter which opened certain graduate and professional school programs at the University of Texas to African Americans. While in the book Advancing Democracy my focus is on documenting Lamar’s desegregation and situating the …


In Flanders Fields: Uncovering The Carnage Of World War I, Neil A. Silberman Jan 2004

In Flanders Fields: Uncovering The Carnage Of World War I, Neil A. Silberman

Neil A. Silberman

No abstract provided.