The anthropocene contract : what kind of historian-reader agreement does environmental historiography need?

The paper is an attempt to reply to the question on how environmental history can participate in public debates on contemporary world concerns in a reliable and socially relevant way. I argue that the answer to this question lies in environmental history's reading pact, which I call the Anthropocene contract. Its most important element is the principle of equality, which concerns the relationship between historians and their readers. In the first step, I invoke Graeme Wynn's statement to point to important questions about the challenges that the Anthropocene posed to environmental history. Next I critically discuss the answers to these questions provided by historical theory. I then formulate a proposal for a reading pact of environmental history using the theoretical insights of Kalle Pihlainen and the philosophy of Jacques Rancière

Introductory Research for Inner-City Advanced Placement High School Students

Instruction module: Circumstances of the Instruction: This module is based on a collaborative effort between a college librarian working with two 11 111 grade Advanced Placement (AP) History and English teachers. Students are enrolled in both the English and History classes, making collaboration and curriculum coordination easier. An instructional librarian working in concert with classroom faculty is beneficial to students because many teachers are not fully aware of recent trends such as information storage and retrieval systems and Web-based search tools. Students taking this module are intelligent, score well on standardized aptitude tests, and receive better than average grades. Still, they face many of the same challenges their peers did, including coming from lower-income and/or single-parent households, having parents with language or other educational barriers of their own, and the obstacles inherent to an inner-city environment. The purpose of the module is to prepare these talented students for college-level work (thus the collaboration with a university librarian) and to teach them basic Information Literacy and research skills. In such a teaching environment, the best way to achieve these goals is to keep expectations high and demand much from the students. At the same time, the librarian and teachers must realize that, though intelligent and intellectually-curious, too many of the students have not been introduced to even the most basic skills necessary for academic success. For these reasons, the lessons must be · scaffolded, deadlines set and adhered to, and expectations made clear. The final product is a 5- 6 page research paper about the Progressive Era, (or another subject of the librarian\u27s and teachers \u27 choosing), double-spaced, complete with a works cited page of at least five sources in the MLA format

Nexus: The Great War\u27s Grain Crisis and the Coming of Prohibition in America

One of the most immediate reasons for the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment was the Grain Crisis of the First World War. The shortage of this food staple enabled Temperance activists to advocate for limits on the brewing of beers and malt beverages. Herbert Hoover oversaw the Commission for Relief in Belgium during this period. Prohibition became law just after the Great War

9 March 1916, Part I: Newton Baker Sworn In as Secretary of War

This invited blog post explores the appointment of Newton D. Baker to the post of Secretary of War during the Woodrow Wilson Administration

Nora Evelyn Cordingley

Nora Evelyn Cordingley worked for the Roosevelt Memorial Association at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace. She helped Hermann Hagedorn build the extensive collection of materials related to President Theodore Roosevelt starting in the early 1920s until the collection moved to Harvard University in the early 1940s. She also helped in the project to publish Theodore Roosevelt\u27s letters. Ms. Cordingley died in her office within the Widener Library in 1951

Connecting the dots in Huntington's disease with protein interaction networks

Analysis of protein-protein interaction networks is becoming important for inferring the function of uncharacterized proteins. A recent study using this approach has identified new proteins and interactions that might be involved in the pathogenesis of the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington's disease, including a GTPase-activating protein that co-localizes with protein aggregates in Huntington's disease patients

Polyglutamine Dances the Conformational Cha-Cha-Cha

While polyglutamine repeats appear in dozens of human proteins, high-resolution structural analysis of these repeats in their native context has eluded researchers. Kim et al. now describe multiple crystal structures and demonstrate that polyglutamine in huntingtin dances through multiple conformations