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Item A Queer Wall in the Head: Using Oral Histories to Map Gay Desire Across Cold War Germany(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022-10) Huneke, Samuel ClowesThis article uses oral histories to examine divergences in how gay men from East and West Germany remembered the sexuality of their youths. Finding that East German men recalled their sexual exploits in far more detail than did West German men, the article argues that this divergence is the result of a complex interlacing of factors. Ultimately, the article contends that these factors reveal a queer wall in the head that continues to delimit how gay German men understand their actions, their pasts, and their identities.Item Horror vérité: politics and history in Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017)(Continuum, 2018) Landsberg, LandsbergThis essay proposes that certain cinematic conventions of the horror film are uniquely suited to bring into visibility everyday, endemic horror – a horror that many in US society refuse to see. I call this use of horror, ‘horror vérité’ or truthful horror. As a form of politically inflected horror, it has potential to perform the kind of materialist history that Walter Benjamin theorizes, in which the historical materialist ‘appropriate[es] a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger’ in order to recast the present. Jordan Peele’s 2017 film, Get Out, is an example of ‘horror vérité’, because it uses the mechanics of the horror genre to expose actually existing racism, to render newly visible the very real, but often masked, racial landscape of a professedly liberal post-racial America. The film analysis considers: first, the use of the conventions of horror to expose everyday racial violence; second, its reliance on a dialectic of sleeping (hypnosis) and waking up (provoked by photography); and third, its performing of the historical materialism Benjamin describes, in which the jarring confrontation of the past and the present radically alters the landscape of the present.Item Stearns' Blog(George Mason University, 2019-05-20) Stearns, Peter N.Stearns' Blog is the official blog of Peter N. Stearns, Provost Emeritus and University Professor of Art and Art History at George Mason University. Professor Stearns began the blog in October 2008 and has since used it as a forum for discussing his research, history pedagogy, and events at George Mason University.Item The Uses of Denominational History(Fides et History, 2017) Mullen, Lincoln A.; Bendroth, Margaret; Kidd, Thomas; Harper, Keith; Prichard, Robert W.Item textreuse: Detect Text Reuse and Document Similarity(rOpenSci, 2015-11-05) Mullen, LincolnThis R package provides a set of functions for measuring similarity among documents and detecting passages which have been reused. It implements shingled n-gram, skip n-gram, and other tokenizers; similarity/dissimilarity functions; pairwise comparisons; minhash and locality sensitive hashing algorithms; and a version of the Smith-Waterman local alignment algorithm suitable for natural language. It is broadly useful for, for example, detecting duplicate documents in a corpus prior to text analysis, or for identifying borrowed passages between texts. The classes provides by this package follow the model of other natural language processing packages for R, especially the NLP and tm packages. (However, this package has no dependency on Java, which should make it easier to install.)Item Institutionalizing Knowledge in Washington's Early Republic(2015-12-18) Oberle, George D., IIIIn Democracy in America, Alexander de Tocqueville observed that “In democratic countries the science of association is the mother of science; the progress of all the rest depends upon the progress it has made.” Tocqueville noted that Americans formed numerous associations for distinct purposes and whose goals included establishing schools and churches, and spreading knowledge through the publication of information of interest to like-minded citizens. The residents of the District of Columbia, America’s federal city, sought to create a thriving metropolis crowded with a vibrant and extensive community of scholars. Many hoped a national institution would materialize to promote the expansion of knowledge and learning. This paper explores the purpose and composition of the myriad societies in the early federal city, especially scientific, literary and proto-professional societies, 1815-1850. This paper examines the shared relationships between these groups using computational tools and methods to develop network analysis using society membership lists.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 ”Boys, of course, cannot be raped”: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1955(Blackwell, 2006-08) Robertson, StephenItem The Company’s Voice in the Workplace: Labor Spies, Propaganda and Personnel Management, 1918-1920(Duke University Press, 2013) Robertson, StephenItem Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s(Sage, 2013-09) Robertson, Stephen; White, Shane; Garton, StephenItem Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem(University of Texas Press, 2012-09) Robertson, Stephen; White, Shane; Garton, Stephen; White, GrahamItem This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s(Oxford University Press, 2010) Robertson, StephenItem Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the American History of Sexual Violence(University of Texas Press, 2010-05) Robertson, StephenItem Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race and Prostitution in the 1920s(Sage, 2009-05) Robertson, StephenItem Seduction, Sexual Violence and Marriage in New York City, 1886-1955(University of Illinois Press, 2006) Robertson, StephenItem What’s Law Got to Do with it? Legal Records and Sexual Histories(2005-01) Robertson, StephenItem "Making Right a Girl’s Ruin: Working-Class Legal Culture and Forced Marriage in New York City, 1890-1950(2002-08) Robertson, StephenItem Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886-1921(Oxford University Press, 2002) Robertson, StephenItem Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Psycho-Sexual Development and Sex Crime in the United States, 1930s-1960s(Oxford University Press, 2001-01) Robertson, StephenItem Signs, Marks, and Private Parts: Doctors, Legal Discourses, and Evidence of Rape in the United States, 1823-1930(University of Texas Press, 1998-01) Robertson, Stephen