What's Going on in Community Media

What's Going On in Community Media shines a spotlight on media practices that increase citizen participation in media production, governance, and policy. The report summarizes the findings of a nationwide scan of effective and emerging community media practices conducted by the Benton Foundation in collaboration with the Community Media and Technology Program of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The scan includes an analysis of trends and emerging practices; comparative research; an online survey of community media practitioners; one-on-one interviews with practitioners, funders and policy makers; and the information gleaned from a series of roundtable discussions with community media practitioners in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Portland, Oregon

Lincoln Dreamt He Died: The Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans From Colonial Times to Freud

The Role of Dreams in Understanding Great Men Historian and author, Andrew Burstein, brings considerable expertise and clout to his latest work, Lincoln Dreamt He Died: the Midnight Visions of Remarkable Americans from Colonial Times to Freud (Palgrave McMillan, 2013). Currently th...

The Field of Public Welfare

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The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood

Reexamining John Bell Hood’s Reputation Regarding the ideology of the “Lost Cause narrative that spread after the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865), the online Encyclopedia of Alabama states that “Historians describe the Lost Cause as a movement with three phases:...

The Iron Brigade in Civil War and Memory: The Black Hats From Bull Run to Appomattox and Thereafter

The Impact of the Black Hats on How We Remember Few stand as qualified to write a comprehensive history of the Union Army’s storied Iron Brigade as Lance Herdegen, the former director of the Institute for Civil War Studies at Carroll University. His latest work, The Iron Brigade in C...

Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio

Bringing an Important Family to the Forefront In describing Dr. Kenneth J. Heineman, the Gale Literary Database: Contemporary Authors Online states that he “has dedicated his life to the past by demonstrating “how history is constantly influencing the present. The consistency of ...

Adaptive Harvest Management Working Group

AHM Implementation: Status and Issues (Fred Johnson) Pacific Flyway Report (Dan Yparraguirre, Tom Aldrich, and Bob Trost) Central Flyway Report (Mike Johnson, Jim Gammonley, and Dave Sharp) Mississippi Flyway Report (Dale Humburg, Scott Baker, and Ken Gamble) Atlantic Flyway Report (Bryan Swift, Gary Costanzo, and Jerry Serie) Modeling and Adaptive Management of American Black Duck Populations (Mike Conroy) Estimating optimal waterfowl harvest decisions using the genetic algorithm (Clinton T. Moore, Michael J. Conroy, Kevin Boston, and Walter D. Potter) Communications Update (Dave Case and the Communications Team) Communications Workshop (Fred Johnson and Working Group) Current Conditions and Outlook for Breeding Waterfowl (Jim Dubovsky) Updating Posterior Probabilities (Bill Kendall) Modeling Survival of Midcontinent Mallards (Bill Kendall) Modeling Reproduction of Midcontinent Mallards (Jim Dubovsky) Assessing the Effect of Habitat on Midcontinent Mallards (Rex Johnson) Managing the Harvests of Eastern Mallards (Fred Johnson) Modeling Western Mallards (Sue Sheaffer) Modeling Pintails (Mike Runge) Estimation of Band-reporting Rates for Mallards: 1998 Pilot Study (Jim Kelley) Modeling Mallard Harvests (Mary Moore, Paul Padding, and Woody Martin) Changes in Mallard Harvests (Paul Padding) Effects of Extended Framework Dates on Mallard Harvests in Iowa and Mississippi (Khristi Wilkins) Potential Impacts of Nationwide Framework Extensions on the Regulation of Mallard Harvests (Fred Johnson) Position Statement on Framework Extensions (Working Group) Meeting Action Items (Working Group

John Brown\u27s Spy: The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

The Harper\u27s Ferry Raid and Trials from a New Perspective More than 150 years after John Brown’s failed attempt to seize the Federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia [on October 16, 1859], the fiery abolitionist and self-proclaimed instrument of God’s judgment upon American slavery rem...

A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War

Class, Race, and Riot in Reconstruction Memphis In May 1866, as the United States struggled to heal from the trauma of its bloody Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865), millions of Americans, for the first time, found themselves living in a land unburdened by slavery. For most whites ...