By Zoya Brumberg Picture the home (or homes) where you grew up. When was your neighborhood built? Did most people in your neighborhood own or rent their homes? What did your neighbors look like? Were there a lot of immigrants or your neighborhood? A visible transient population? Was there a lot of green space? What […]
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diaCRITICS
“Diacritics” is the term used for the accent marks that change the pronunciation and meanings of words in written in a variety of languages, including Vietnamese. DiaCRITICS is also a play on words to describe a group of writers, researchers, and artists engaged in public scholarship and criticism of culture produced in the Vietnamese diaspora. […]
American Pulse Project
By Zoya Brumberg How will the moment of time in which you live be remembered? Will Occupy Wall Street or the anti-Trump movement be written into history as the 1968 of the 21st century? Are our lives a turning point in the political, economic, or social conditions of the modern world? For Rutgers University History […]
Remembering Lincoln
Do your great-great-great-grandparents remember where they were on the evening of April 14, 1865? Though this may not be a question most of us ask ourselves, it is one that might be answered by exploring the digital archives of the Remembering Lincoln project. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln left a mark not only on […]
The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Ajay Singh Chaudhary taught the first course of what would become the country-wide nonprofit interdisciplinary teaching and research institute, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York City in 2012. This single course about Plato and Aristotle, initiated by a recent Columbia University Comparative Literature PhD, has grown into a national organization with active […]
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