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Item 2006: Crossroads for Copyright(2005-12-29) Cohen, DanItem A Closer Look at the National Archives-Footnote Agreement(2007-02-05) Cohen, DanItem A Human Being, and Not a Mere Social Factor: Catholic Strategies for Dealing with Sterilization Statutes in the 1920s(Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History, 2004-06) Leon, SharonThis article reviews the developing strategies of Catholic opposition to state laws for compulsory sterilization of so-called ‘feeble-minded’ residents of state institutions during the 1920s. In 1927 the Supreme Court, in its landmark decision Buck v. Bell, affirmed the constitutionality of such laws. This article traces the work of Catholic moral theologians, such as John A. Ryan, and representatives of various lay organizations in opposing such laws and educating Catholic laity on the natural law issues in the debate. In 1930 the National Catholic Welfare Conference published four pamphlets in a series entitled ‘Problems of Mental Deficiency’ that provided a full compliment of medical, legal, and moral objections to the laws. On 31 December 1930 Pope Pius XI in his encyclical ‘Casti Connubii’ provided an authoritative pronouncement on eugenics and sterilization that reaffirmed Catholic opposition to eugenics policy initiatives.Item Build, Analyse, and Generalise: Community Transcription of the Papers of the War Department and the Development of Scripto(Ashgate, 2014) Leon, SharonRRCHNM’s foray into community transcription with the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and the development of Scripto offers some significant lessons for cultural heritage institutions and professionals who want to engage with their constituents in meaningful ways. Primarily, we gained a dedicated and engaged audience for PWD, and a tremendous insight into their motivations. Equally important, the development process for the generalized tool, and its role in the larger ecosystem of open-source software that enables widespread user participation in cultural heritage projects, points to viable directions for the development of subsequent tools. Together this case study of PWD and the story of the creation of Scripto suggest that a wide range of cultural heritage organizations can launch and sustain lightweight transcription projects that encourage increased engagement with core audiences.Item Clifford Lynch and Jonathan Band on Google Book Search(2005-11-28) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 1: What is a Blog, Anyway?(2005-12-16) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 2: Advantages and Disadvantages of Popular Blog Software(2005-12-18) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 3: The Double Life of Blogs(2005-12-22) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 4: Searching for a Good Search(2005-12-26) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 5: What is XHTML, and Why Should I Care?(2006-01-05) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 6: One Year Later(2006-12-11) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 7: Tags, What Are They Good For?(2007-01-05) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 8: Full Feeds vs. Partial Feeds(2007-01-11) Cohen, DanItem Creating a Blog from Scratch, Part 9: The Conclusion(2007-07-25) Cohen, DanItem Creating Local Linkages: Local History Activity Guide(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2020-06-05) Brett, Megan; Kelly, Mills; Robertson, Stephen; Wilkinson, Corinne; Walters Cooper, LaQuanda; Dauterive, JessicaBased on the learning modules of our online course, Creating Local Linkages, the Local History Activity Guide includes models for public programs in libraries, especially those public libraries with special collections holdings. These program models and resources are intended to introduce library patrons (such as researchers, local neighborhood groups, or students of all ages) to the complexities of local history, and to items held in local public library collections which document this historyItem Debating Identity and Origins in Early 20th-Century American Commemoratives(Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012) Brennan, Sheila A.Patriotic commemorations flowered following World War I in the United States, as did campaigns for securing limited- issue federal postage stamps. Beginning in 1920 with the Pilgrim Tercentenary issue, commemorative stamp subjects were moving away from solely advertising world’s fairs as the U.S. Post Office Department (USPOD) celebrated battles, anniversaries, and individuals that were part of greater cultural trends that sought to define Americanness in post–World War I America. Because of the acces- sibility of American commemoratives, both in size and through imagery, these stamps served to reinforce and naturalize an exceptionalist and triumphalist vision of the Ameri- can past that obscured the complicated legacies of conquest and inequality. This article examines imagery from a few commemorative stamps from the inter-war years and the circumstances of their printing that celebrated regional anniversaries held in Plymouth Rock, Mayport, and Minneapolis, as well as stamps honoring Polish military heroes Casimir Pulaski and Theodore Kosciuszko. Conversations revolving around these stamps, in correspondence or in the public media, demonstrate how the USPOD became a powerful institution that legitimized and distributed historical narratives and one that allowed ordinary citizens to engage with its government. Knowing of the postal service’s power to circulate interpretations of the American past to millions of people, some citizens sought commemoratives as part of grander strategies fighting for social and political equality while others wanted stamps to perpetuate a romanticized view of colonial America. These debates over commemorative subjects reflected contemporary struggles over immigration restrictions, constructions of race, and definitions of citizenship in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.Item Design Matters(2008-11-12) Cohen, DanItem Digital Humanities and the Disciplines, Day 1(2008-10-03) Cohen, DanItem Digital Humanities and the Disciplines, Day 2(2008-10-08) Cohen, DanItem Digital Humanities Summit Wrap-up(2007-04-19) Cohen, Dan