by Phillip Martin | Jun 26, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Traveling on an air-conditioned bus along Malaysia’s North-South Highway to Kuala Lumpur several months ago could not sensibly be compared to the freedom ride from Selma to Montgomery. But for the dark-skinned man seated near me, it could well have been a...
by Wen-ti Tsen | Jun 30, 2008 | The Public Humanist
From Asian American Comic Book by Wen-ti Tsen, AARW, pg. 63 My last blog post ended with us suspended on the ledge of a 3rd-story window of an old Chinatown building. Cleaning up, after finishing a mural on the building’s side depicting the coming of Asians to...
by Hayley Wood | Jul 3, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I saw an old friend, John, whom I hadn’t seen in about five years, at Co-op Power’s Sustainable Energy Summit at UMass Amherst last weekend. He and I had been Green Party members in 2000, and were among the handful of faithfuls who gathered monthly,...
by Robert S. Cox | Jul 14, 2008 | The Public Humanist
From the Shakers to Transcendentalists and hippies, communes spring up in the fields of Massachusetts history like so many unkempt weeds, and like weeds, they have an extraordinary ability to flourish in the most unexpected ways. While many of these communes might be...
by Kate Navarra Thibodeau | Jul 22, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Some recent posts, specifically Picture This: Participatory History on the Web, have caused a shiver to run up and down my spine, but only in regards to how it will affect the collection and keeping of soft, or online, records. While the historian in me regards the...
