Tag: history

Finding hidden imagery in an Illuminated Page

A guided tour of the Zeytun Gospel’s Canon Tables reveals the extraordinary life of a matchless Armenian artwork HEGHNAR ZEITLIAN WATENPAUGH A bifolium of two different sets of illustration from the Getty display of the Zeytun Gospels canon tables. Photograph: J. Paul Getty Museum. Ms, 

History Stands alongside the Woman in the White Tobe

The Legacy of Sudanese Fashion and Politics MARIE GRACE BROWN Three female students at Khartoum University, two of whom are in white tobes; Khartoum, 1951. Sudan Government photograph: Crown copyright. Reproduced by permission of Durham University Library.   By now the image is familiar. A 

On Migration

Rethinking the Benefits Brought by the Chinese Railroad Workers ROLAND HSU  Title: 227 East and West shaking hand at Laying Last Rail. This work (by Andrew J. Russell), identified by Oakland Museum of California, is free of known copyright restrictions.   Today’s news is filled 

Iran and the Crisis of International Reputation

Why the Iranian Jewish Community is Not a Paradox LIOR B. STERNFELD January 16, 2015- Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepare meet at the Palais Coburg Hotel in Vienna, Austria to discuss the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive 

No Room for the Dead

On Grave Relocation in Contemporary China

A Reflection on Necessary Resistance

A letter from James M. Omura to Professor Roger Daniels, April 12, 1983.

Is Kanye West an Uncle Tom?

The Complicated Origins of a Racial Slur.

SCIENCE FAKE AND REAL

On Enlightenment scientists and the forgotten role of imagination. by TITA CHICO March for Science in San Francisco. Photo by Steve Rapport, CCBY2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Headlines today pop with accusations that traditional sources of knowledge and even experts are biased, ideological, and unreliable. Accusations 

The New Primitives

Excerpt courtesy of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

The Taboos of History

Executive editor, Eric Brandt, on his aims for the Press’s list in American history.