So you want to use textual digital surrogates in your teaching. Where can you find what is most relevant to your topics and pedagogical aims? How can you identify the most accurate and informative images, if there are several options? Alas, there is no one-stop shopping for this or any kind of textual material… digital […]
In the humanities, we place human creation at the center of inquiry. Our work, in its essence, is a dialogue with things people have made and, through them, with particular human creators—their histories and aesthetics, beliefs and philosophies, practices and communities. While the artifacts through which we learn vary by discipline, what humanists have in […]
COVID-19 has enrolled many of us in higher education in an unexpected experiment in online learning. While many classroom teachers have been practitioners of hybrid pedagogy for years—in-person meetings facilitated or complemented by digital texts, tools, and activities, learning management systems like Blackboard, and operational platforms like SIS—we find ourselves suddenly adapting by necessity to […]
It began with a visit, on a calm December day, to a spacious, sunlit farmhouse on the edge of Leakin Park. There I encountered for the first time John Clark Mayden’s Baltimore “street portraits”—photographs set worlds away from that peaceful location … or so you might think. I was there with Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg […]
Today, we commemorate the 51st anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death: his assassination by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, where King was preparing to march on behalf of sanitation workers on strike. In marking this tragic anniversary, we also celebrate the U.S. Civil Rights Movement King did so much to advance. Indeed, […]
Sunday was Veterans Day, which is observed on November 11 because it was on November 11, 1918, at 11 am, that the World War I armistice between Germany and the Allied nations came into effect. (The peace treaties that officially resolved the conflict were not signed until 1919, including, most famously, the Treaty of Versailles.) […]
The post is guest-authored by senior Lucy Eills, a Writing Seminars major and curator of a new exhibition opening today on M-level of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the outcome of a Sheridan Libraries / Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award. Over its four and a quarter years, World War I saw over […]
1968 was marked by war and protest, tragedy and revolution—a year around which a whole era of political turmoil, cultural change, and social unrest turned. So much happened in one year, including: The Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. The “Prague Spring” liberalizations in Czechoslovakia, followed by the Soviet invasion. The assassination […]
This guest post is from senior Samantha Smart, who received an Arts Innovation Grant to bring more Hopkins students into contact with one of Baltimore’s most intriguing historical figures, Edgar Allan Poe. Every September, football fans put on their purple jerseys and migrate to M&T Bank Stadium for the National Football League’s Opening Day. Every […]
Today, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death: his assassination by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, where King was preparing to march on behalf of sanitation workers on strike. In marking this tragic anniversary, we also celebrate the U.S. Civil Rights Movement King did so much to advance. Indeed, […]