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The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools
Article on the History Engine Project, an online archive consisting of thousands of narratives written and contributed by undergraduates.
[Review] Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands
This article reviews the book "Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands," edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton.
Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia
Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.
Mapping Texts: Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization To Unlock The Research Potential of Historical Newspapers
Paper on mapping texts and combining text-mining and geo-visualization to unlock the research potential of historical newspapers.
Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers
Paper for the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This paper discusses topic modeling on historical newspaper.
History 4263: Palestinian History
Poster for the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses a project for a UNT history course, History 4263, on Palestinian history. In the course, students explore historical foundations and interpretations of modern Palestinian history.
Mock Trial on Stalin and Stalinism
This poster describes an experiential learning activity for the UNT course History 5040, Historiography of Stalinism. The goal is to apply critical reasoning to Stalin's politics in a courtroom environment.
Food Habits and Racial Thinking
This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on The Food We Eat. In this presentation, the author discusses race and food habits.
Legacy of Stalinism in Modern Russia: Historical Trauma, Memory and Forgetting
This poster presentation discusses research on a transformative instructional initiative on globalizing curriculum. The project involved students learning about the legacy of Stalinism in modern Russia and connecting students to their virtual peers in Russia via the internet.
Image of the Future in Russian Communism: Narratives of the Collective Representations in the 1920s in the USSR
This article discusses the image of the future in Russian communism.
The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s
This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.
The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
The Public Perception of the Cult of Lenin Based on Archival Materials
This book presents a study of collective representations in Soviet Russia concentrates on perceptions of Lenin's image from a socio-anthropological, rather than political, view. In addition to Communist Party information, official documents, memoirs and folklore, newly opened secret reports of the Soviet political police are used for the first time. The book analyzes the development of the cult from Lenin's lifetime up to the process of "de-Leninization" in the 1990s. Much of the research concerns the perception of Lenin's death and the decision to embalm his body, the campaign called "the Lenin enrollment", renaming of Petrograd and organization of "Lenin Corners". The book also presents new material devoted to Lenin museums, along with archive documents and never-published photographs.
Крестьянский Союз в 1920-е годы и формирование крестьянской идентичности: модернизационный дискурс: The Peasant Union in the 1920s. The Formation of a Peasant Identity: Modernizing Discourse
Book chapter discussing the Peasant Union in the 1920s, the formation of a peasant identity, and modernizing discourse.
Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans
This article describes an ecological model that identifies the underlying reasons for the pattern of cancer susceptibility in Americans of African descent.
Comment on ‘Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women’
A comment on the article 'Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women'.
Genomics: Shaping the Future of Health Equity in Medicine
This presentation focuses the impact of genomic research on health equity, in particular mental health treatments in communities of African ancestry. The presenter also highlights the other speakers from the conference. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research
Presentation highlighting the use of zebrafish to identify genes relating to predisposition to thromboembolism and cardiovascular disease in people with African ancestry. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Six Overlooked Hurdles to Achieving Diversity in Genomic Research
This presentation is a broad overview on the challenges to achieving diversity in genomic research. It is also an introduction for the research of the other presenters at the conference. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
[Welcome and Introduction to the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research by Mark McLellan]
Presentation from Mark McLellan, the Vice-President for Research and Innovation at UNT, to welcome attendees, introduce the University, and advocate for the importance of the diversifying genomics research. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
[Examining the Role of Nanomaterials and Optical Sensors for Genomics Research]
This presentation introduces the possibility of using nanomaterials and optically active sensors in genomics research. The presenter shares the history and applications of nanomaterials, introduces their research into optical-luminescent sensors and optically active plasmonic nanoparticles, and explores how they might be used in genomics. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
[Introduction and Motivation for the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research by Jennifer Wallach]
Presentation from Jennifer Jensen Wallach, the chair of the Department of History at UNT, to introduce and highlight the conference's origination by Dr. Constance Hilliard and Dr. Denise Perry Simmons.
Adjustment for Local Ancestry in Genetic Association Analysis of Admixed Populations
Presentation on the consideration of local ancestry of admixed populations, or populations comprised of genetically distinct ancestral populations which can alter their gene flow in unique ways. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Pilgrimage and Textual Culture
This article considers issues of reading and writing before, during, and after medieval pilgrimages, as well as the methodological and historical issues at stake for both pilgrim writers and modern scholars. In particular, the articles address the vexed issue of where — and how much — reading and writing took place around historically attested pilgrimages.
Elizabeth Abel, Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010)
Book review for "Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow" by Elizabeth Abel.
Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians through Oral Histories
Grant narrative for the grant, "Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories." The University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Information Science, partnering with the UNT Oral History Program, will host a series of forums to identify best practices and strategies to respond to challenges around building, implementing, preserving, and accessing community oral history projects. The project team will convene librarians, archivists, oral history practitioners, public historians, community-based memory workers, and others working in oral history to identify good practices, share challenges and lessons learned, and prepare an actionable roadmap for building, implementing, preserving, and sustaining community oral history projects.
Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections
Book chapter that documents the “Mapping Texts” project, an experiment focused on the problem of OCR noise in historical newspapers.
Webinar 1: Oral History and Communities
Video recording of the first webinar from the Oral History Forum. The theme of the webinar explores how community identity, history, activism, and experiences are represented through oral history.
Webinar 2: Creating and Collecting Oral History
Video recording of the second webinar from the Oral History Forum. The theme of the webinar explores the relevant issues and concerns regarding creating and generating oral histories in a time of social and technological change.
Webinar 3: Preserving and Archiving Oral History Collections
Video recording of the third webinar from the Oral History Forum. The theme of the webinar explore best practices and considerations for ethically informed preservation and archiving of oral history.
Webinar 4: Accessing and Using Oral History
Video recording of the fourth webinar from the Oral History Forum. The theme of the last webinar of the series explores innovative uses of oral history collections and pushes for equitable access to oral history collections.
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