History (video)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. In this talk, Orville Schell discusses China's long march to the 21st century. Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. In 1986, a 2,000-year-old boat was discovered in Israel on the banks of the Sea of Galilee. The vessel is representative of the large fishing boats common on the ancient lake, and the type of boat used in the Gospels by the disciples of Jesus. It is also the type of boat used by the Jews in the brutal nautical Battle of Migdal in AD 67 against a makeshift Roman fleet. The lecture describes the adventure of the boat's discovery and excavation, and delves into the revealing research about the vessel and its milieu.Shelley Wachsmann, Meadows Associate Professor of Biblical Archaeology, Texas A&M University (lecturer); Gil Stein, Oriental Institute Director (introductory speaker)

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs" – Yoshiko Nozaki (SUNY Buffalo) and Mark Selden (SUNY Binghamton)"The Politics of History Textbooks in India" – Neeladri Bhattacharya, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)"Weapons of Mass Instruction: How Schoolbooks & Democratization Destroyed Multiethnic Central Europe" – Charles Ingrao, (Purdue University)Discussant: Prasenjit Duara, University of ChicagoSession II: Boundaries"Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History" – Thomas Bender (New York University)"Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000)" – Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago)Discussant: Simone Laessig, Georg-Eckert-Institut f~A 1/4 r Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Braunschweig, Germany)Session III: Futures"School Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Design: Some Thoughts on Developing a World Consciousness" – Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany)"Historical Reconciliation: A Tool for Conflict Resolution" – Elazar Barkan (Columbia University)Discussant: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoQuestion and Answer Session

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs" – Yoshiko Nozaki (SUNY Buffalo) and Mark Selden (SUNY Binghamton)"The Politics of History Textbooks in India" – Neeladri Bhattacharya, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)"Weapons of Mass Instruction: How Schoolbooks & Democratization Destroyed Multiethnic Central Europe" – Charles Ingrao, (Purdue University)Discussant: Prasenjit Duara, University of ChicagoSession II: Boundaries"Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History" – Thomas Bender (New York University)"Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000)" – Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago)Discussant: Simone Laessig, Georg-Eckert-Institut f~A 1/4 r Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Braunschweig, Germany)Session III: Futures"School Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Design: Some Thoughts on Developing a World Consciousness" – Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany)"Historical Reconciliation: A Tool for Conflict Resolution" – Elazar Barkan (Columbia University)Discussant: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoQuestion and Answer Session

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs" – Yoshiko Nozaki (SUNY Buffalo) and Mark Selden (SUNY Binghamton)"The Politics of History Textbooks in India" – Neeladri Bhattacharya, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)"Weapons of Mass Instruction: How Schoolbooks & Democratization Destroyed Multiethnic Central Europe" – Charles Ingrao, (Purdue University)Discussant: Prasenjit Duara, University of ChicagoSession II: Boundaries"Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History" – Thomas Bender (New York University)"Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000)" – Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago)Discussant: Simone Laessig, Georg-Eckert-Institut f~A 1/4 r Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Braunschweig, Germany)Session III: Futures"School Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Design: Some Thoughts on Developing a World Consciousness" – Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany)"Historical Reconciliation: A Tool for Conflict Resolution" – Elazar Barkan (Columbia University)Discussant: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoQuestion and Answer Session

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the neo-liberal order.Session I : Politics"Historical Memory, International Conflict and Japanese Textbook Controversies in Three Epochs" – Yoshiko Nozaki (SUNY Buffalo) and Mark Selden (SUNY Binghamton)"The Politics of History Textbooks in India" – Neeladri Bhattacharya, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)"Weapons of Mass Instruction: How Schoolbooks & Democratization Destroyed Multiethnic Central Europe" – Charles Ingrao, (Purdue University)Discussant: Prasenjit Duara, University of ChicagoSession II: Boundaries"Textbook Controversies and the Limits of American History" – Thomas Bender (New York University)"Testing the limits of historical imagination: Mexico’s history-textbook controversies and the U.S. question (circa 1957-2000)" – Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago)Discussant: Simone Laessig, Georg-Eckert-Institut f~A 1/4 r Internationale Schulbuchforschung (Braunschweig, Germany)Session III: Futures"School Textbooks as Collective Memory and Social Design: Some Thoughts on Developing a World Consciousness" – Hanna Schissler (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany)"Historical Reconciliation: A Tool for Conflict Resolution" – Elazar Barkan (Columbia University)Discussant: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoQuestion and Answer Session

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Generations of scholars have explored the writing of the Declaration of Independence--the philosophy informing Jefferson and his co-authors, the political circumstances behind its drafting, even the literary qualities of the document. We know far less, however, about how the Declaration was understood by early readers. What did the text mean to contemporaries? When did readers begin to focus on the Declaration as primarily a charter of rights rather than an assertion of national sovereignty? Is the history of liberty in the United States in part a story in which readers, both free and enslaved, productively misread the Declaration? Prof. Slauter explores these and related questions.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender.Day after day, as she uncovered new finds of historic importance, Goldsby talked with owner and heir Robert A. Sengstacke on how to protect this amazing collection. Rather than competing to acquire the collection on behalf of the University, Goldsby focused on making it available to the widest number of people possible, and keeping it in the Defender's hometown.Experts from the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center counseled Sengstacke on the ways such a collection might be housed. Goldsby inventoried to assess the research value of its contents. Ultimately the University of Chicago Library agreed to create and maintain a database of the collection's contents and a digital archive of its 4,000 images.Those labors bore fruit when Sengstacke announced he was donating his family's massive collection to the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History. In a ceremony Wednesday, May 27, at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Mayor Richard Daley and others lauded one of the most significant collections of African American history in the nation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender.Day after day, as she uncovered new finds of historic importance, Goldsby talked with owner and heir Robert A. Sengstacke on how to protect this amazing collection. Rather than competing to acquire the collection on behalf of the University, Goldsby focused on making it available to the widest number of people possible, and keeping it in the Defender's hometown.Experts from the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center counseled Sengstacke on the ways such a collection might be housed. Goldsby inventoried to assess the research value of its contents. Ultimately the University of Chicago Library agreed to create and maintain a database of the collection's contents and a digital archive of its 4,000 images.Those labors bore fruit when Sengstacke announced he was donating his family's massive collection to the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History. In a ceremony Wednesday, May 27, at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Mayor Richard Daley and others lauded one of the most significant collections of African American history in the nation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender.Day after day, as she uncovered new finds of historic importance, Goldsby talked with owner and heir Robert A. Sengstacke on how to protect this amazing collection. Rather than competing to acquire the collection on behalf of the University, Goldsby focused on making it available to the widest number of people possible, and keeping it in the Defender's hometown.Experts from the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center counseled Sengstacke on the ways such a collection might be housed. Goldsby inventoried to assess the research value of its contents. Ultimately the University of Chicago Library agreed to create and maintain a database of the collection's contents and a digital archive of its 4,000 images.Those labors bore fruit when Sengstacke announced he was donating his family's massive collection to the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History. In a ceremony Wednesday, May 27, at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Mayor Richard Daley and others lauded one of the most significant collections of African American history in the nation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Throughout the sweltering summer of 2006, Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor in English Language and Literature, toiled away in an attic full of treasures' an unairconditioned loft in Chicago's West Loop, piled high with the personal and professional documents of the family that founded America's pre-eminent black newspaper, the Chicago Defender.Day after day, as she uncovered new finds of historic importance, Goldsby talked with owner and heir Robert A. Sengstacke on how to protect this amazing collection. Rather than competing to acquire the collection on behalf of the University, Goldsby focused on making it available to the widest number of people possible, and keeping it in the Defender's hometown.Experts from the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center counseled Sengstacke on the ways such a collection might be housed. Goldsby inventoried to assess the research value of its contents. Ultimately the University of Chicago Library agreed to create and maintain a database of the collection's contents and a digital archive of its 4,000 images.Those labors bore fruit when Sengstacke announced he was donating his family's massive collection to the Chicago Public Library's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History. In a ceremony Wednesday, May 27, at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Mayor Richard Daley and others lauded one of the most significant collections of African American history in the nation.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Film historian Tom Gunning examines an important precursor to modern film: the magic lantern. He considers the eighteenth and nineteenth century's fascination with this new, very modern way of experiencing images and how this form of visual media ushered in the era of motion pictures. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. He was there from the start, sitting near President Nixon as the chief interpreter for Chinese delegations first visiting the United States in 1972. Since then he has often traveled with Chinese delegations as their interpreter and was called upon to interpret amid a 2001 international incident in which a U.S. spy plane was downed in China.As a scholar, Alitto, Associate Professor of History, has devoted his career to studying Chinese history. He was among the first Americans invited to visit the Communist country in 1973, and in 1986, he opened the first site for rural research. He has witnessed remote villages blossom into communities with modern infrastructures and industrial plants.But it was Alitto's biographical work on Chinese philosopher and reformer Liang Shu-ming that endeared him to the Chinese people and helped create a minor industry on the topic. Millions of copies of his book have been sold in Chinese translation. Alitto is now somewhat of a celebrity in China, and the foreign media frequently rely on him as an expert. Most recently, as a commentator on President Obama's inauguration.It is satisfying to know that I am able to help the Chinese understand Americans, says Alitto, whose affable chuckles seem to go naturally with his generous mustache.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Neil Harris, the Preston & Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art History, first ran across "The Chicagoan" at the Joseph Regenstein Library more than 12 years ago. Although the eminent historian had never before heard of the colorful Jazz Age magazine, he figured that plenty must have been written about it."The Chicagoan", which openly celebrated its city, was published at least 149 times between 1926 and 1935. The lavishly illustrated magazine featured the work of hundreds of artists and writers, many of them quite successful. And it was clearly an imitation of the well known The New Yorker.Over the ensuing years, however, Harris found few records of the Chicagoan in any scholarly, historical, or popular archives or collections. So he set out to write a modest book about "The Chicagoan".The more Harris dug into the magazine's past, however, the more he became determined to give it a fitting re-introduction to the world. The book grew in page size and page count, and grants were secured to assure high-quality color reproduction. His wife, Teri Edelstein, aided him in selecting the pages to anthologize.“We felt a big responsibility because we were giving a second life to some very talented writers and artists,” Harris says. “As we worked, we became more and more determined to get it right.”"The Chicagoan": A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age, published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2008, is a stunning 385-page tribute to the magazine and the city it shamelessly promoted. The reviews have been gushing, with The New York Times Book Review calling it “:a coffee table book nicer and better than most coffee tables.”