CitizenWald

CitizenWald, 4 days ago to history

beautiful bit of book history:

florid poem by Col. J. J. von Scheler in honor of the 54th birthday [when you're an enlightened despit, it doesn't have to be a round number] of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg
Small folio from the presses of Court Printer Christoph Friedrich Cotta the elder, Stuttgart

#printing #C18 #BookHistory
@bookhistodons

CitizenWald, 5 days ago to books

The Complicated Ethics of #RareBook #Collecting: Literary treasures are too often hidden away from the public—but the world of private collecting isn’t all bad. - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/05/rare-book-private-collection-ethics/678254/?utm_campaign=books-briefing&utm_content=20240503&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Books+Briefing

Not sure it's as complicated as all that 😀 (especially compared with other fields), the more so as it's from a collector and in effect answers its own question (attached). But good to put the issues out there. Also nice that features local collector Lisa Baskin

#books #BookHistory #RareBooks

Many rare books, manuscripts, and items in the collections at these institutions are donated by or purchased from private collectors. In other cases, a donor supplies the funds for an institution to make general or specific acquisitions. If you've visited the permanent “Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures,” you might have seen one-of- a-kind items on rotation, such as an early manuscript draft of Oscar Wilde’s 7he Importance of Being Earnest, a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair, and a page from the manuscript of an unpublished chapter of 7he Autobiography of Malcolm X. These pieces were “acquired through the generosity of” a donor or were donated by a collector.
Collectors tend to donate or sell their collections to institutions if they don’t put them back into the marketplace via auction houses or rare-book sellers. “Collecting isn't mere shopping,” Heritage said. “The best collecting requires vision, passion, knowledge, and creativity—and, above all, persistence.” Collecting, for Heritage, has the capacity to be a form of advocacy through the creation of knowledge and the ability to tie together strands of knowledge that otherwise couldn’t be done unless one has a lifelong devotion to a particular subject. Some collectors have honed niche collections that have since been deposited in libraries (either wholly or partially). Walter O. Evans collected Black artwork and literature that now constitute mainstay collections—such as the Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers and the Walter O. Evans collection of James Baldwin—at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Douglass papers in Evans’s collection have been digitized so that scholars, students, and the public can access them.

CitizenWald, 7 days ago to Israel

Historian here.

This sort of thing--increasingly common--is not helpful to your cause. The more so as we mark V-E Day and the defeat of #Nazism.

Jewish students had put forward a motion stating that they deserved full rights in the ANU--and supporting a two-state solution

tiny.cc/3fz0yz

#Israel #Gaza #antisemitism #Hitler #Nazis #Hamas #Mazeldon @histodons @worldwarshistory

student in hoodie puts index finger below nose to imitate Hitler's mustache
student saying Hamas deserves our unconditional support
student refusing to condemn Hamas, and saying support for it must be unconditional

CitizenWald, 17 days ago to Israel

I realize that campus tensions are sky-high now regarding the issue of #Israel and #Hamas in #Gaza, so forgive me for raising a particularly sensitive and controversial issue:

Can anyone tell me why, all of a sudden, educated people are writing "protestor" rather than "protester" ?!

CitizenWald, 1 month ago to random

A favorite candy on Easter, created in Boston

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/29/lifestyle/jelly-beans-boston-history-easter-candy/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter

No, not Peeps--about which wars have, I believe, been fought. https://www.bonappetit.com/story/peeps-carcinogens

Jelly Beans!

CitizenWald, 1 month ago to random

Universities are closing their herbariums to save money, but they could be foreclosing our future.

amazingly shortsighted policy, typical of admin bean counters (no pun intended)

"3 in 4 species yet to be described are likely at risk of extinction. Moreover, 45 percent of all flowering plants are likely at risk of extinction"

Only thanks to a 500-year old herbarium "do we know what the first European-grown tomatoes... looked like & what their genetic makeup was"

https://wapo.st/3TK4NaO

CitizenWald, 2 months ago to history

Well, this response to our new #history of #antisemitism is certainly welcome

@histotons @worldwarshistory #Mazeldon

CitizenWald, 2 months ago to poetry

A tale of two women writers' houses:

As the Emily Dickinson Museum, having magnificently restored the "Homestead," now reopens "The Evergreens" after infrastructure work

https://www.gazettenet.com/Another-peek-at-the-poet-s-world-Emily-Dickinson-Museum-reopens-The-Evergreens-closed-for-preservation-work-the--five-years-54180174

Archaeologists discover Anne Bradstreet's home

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-anne-bradstreet-groundbreaking-research-into-the-poets-home-tickets-851911288597?keep_tld=1

(h/t @EmersonWBaker )

#authors #WomensHistory #poetry #archaeology

@bookhistodons @bookstodon

CitizenWald, 2 months ago to poland

Today I was teaching #Poland Beyond Martyrdom by Brian Porter-Szűcs.

Today he presents a hybrid lecture on the topic at 5 p.m. Eastern:

Poland Beyond Martyrdom? New Approaches in Polish History | H-Net

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20024856/poland-beyond-martyrdom-new-approaches-polish-history

#historiography #nationalism #identity @histodons @worldwarshistory

CitizenWald, 2 months ago to history

Pleased to say I will on Monday be teaching @MagdaTeter chapter on the #history and (sadly!) contemporary persistence of the ritual murder myth from our new Routledge History of #Antisemitism, in which she distills she essence of her masterful and justifiably acclaimed definitive book on the subject.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-History-of-Antisemitism/Weitzman-Williams-Wald/p/book/9781138369443

Here, a preview

#Mazeldon #Israel #Palestine @histodons

CitizenWald, 3 months ago to Jewish

Loss of another major #historian: Robert Chazan, pioneer of #medieval #Jewish #history.

https://www.jta.org/2024/02/13/obituaries/robert-chazan-87-nyu-scholar-of-medieval-jewry-who-helped-build-field-of-jewish-studies

Ironically, I start teaching one of his books tomorrow.

His medieval chapter in our new Routledge History of #Antisemitism was an overview of the findings of his 9 influential books

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-History-of-Antisemitism/Weitzman-Williams-Wald/p/book/9781138369443

#Mazeldon @histodons @medievodons

AbandonedAmerica, 3 months ago to random

The no-longer-abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. Closed in 1970, ESP was left to decay until Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Inc. began offering tours to the public in 1994. Now, it's one of the city's major tourist destinations, drawing over 220,000 visitors a year.

Luckily, they were kind enough to let me into some of the areas that are still off limits to the public 😉 https://www.abandonedamerica.us/eastern-state-penitentiary

Green_Footballs, 3 months ago to random

So. Just catching up. I haven’t paid attention to the details of this one, but is there anything to the Biden classified docs brouhaha? Because I detect the scent of a nothing-burger, with a side of media hype.

Seems like the bottom line is he’s not being charged. Everything else? Hype.

CitizenWald, 3 months ago to history

3 February 1468: death of Johannes Gutenberg

This 2021 Google Doodle "celebrates...the anniversary of this day in 2000 when the Gutenberg Museum launched a retrospective exhibition in his honor."
https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-johannes-gutenberg/
I was delighted to be visit it during the SHARP (sharpweb.org) #book #history conference

@bookhistodons @bookstodon

CitizenWald, 3 months ago to random

I may have to explain the theological concept of purgatory to my students this semester.

The way the morning is unfolding, I think I'll go with:

Imagine all the highly educated people on a listserv "reply all" to an invitation to an event, and you don't know when this will end

CitizenWald, 3 months ago to twitter

Siri, define "net solutionism."

Could social media really have stopped the #Holocaust ? Scholars say #ElonMusk 's 'fantasy scenario' is far-fetched. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

https://www.jta.org/2024/01/24/global/could-social-media-really-have-stopped-the-holocaust-scholars-say-elon-musks-fantasy-scenario-is-far-fetched?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_Sunday_Features&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-67616-32455

#Twitter #X #socialmedia #internet #tech #Musk

CitizenWald, 3 months ago to bookhistodons

10 Mass. districts remove and restrict book access:

"Frequently challenged books mostly deal with gender, sexuality, & race....In some cases ...more general pushback or questions regarding “LGBTQ+ & diversity topics & perspectives,
"But the challenges didn’t all come from conservative voices. Some parents took issue with titles that contained outdated and racist content, such as Dr. Seuss books that are no longer being published due to racist imagery"

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/17/metro/books-banned-in-massachusetts/?s_campaign=bostonglobe:push:web

@bookhistodons

CitizenWald, 4 months ago to random

for those not following the evolving crisis in German-language reporting:

Why Germany has gone into protest mode: Striking train drivers, angry farmers, a government losing support and a far-right party soaring in the popularity ratings. What is happening in Germany? – DW – 01/14/2024

"According to political journalist Albrecht von Lucke people are shifting to the fringes of the political spectrum, and he sees trends towards social division and dissolution."

https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-has-gone-into-protest-mode/a-67957380?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&at_medium=Newsletter&at_campaign=EN+-+Daily+Bulletin&at_dw_language=en&at_number=20240114&r=3726279830351217&lid=2793017&pm_ln=235628

anna_lillith, 4 months ago to Meme

#meme #sustainability

dukepaaron, 4 months ago to random

I saw this weird lefty pro-Houthis post earlier today and I wrote and deleted a response like 3 times. In the end I didn't think it was worth it but pro-Houthis? What kind of first world anti-imperialist uber alles mindfuck do you have to come from for that?

Their motto is literally "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam" which is nutso.

Curse on the Jews ffs!

CitizenWald, 4 months ago to random

Deer on the college campus as dusk approaches