Site-Wide Activity

Thoreau’s discussion of Walden Pond is rich with evocative and thought-provoking language. The language he uses reflects the scenes he’s describing. Surrounded by “celestial dews” and housing a “myriad of ducks, […]

In the village passage Thoreau talks about two points that seemed to be linked to greed, or loss of self. The first half of the section describes shop owners who use ruthless or cold tactics to tempt consumers or […]

Through Henry David Thoreau’s description and personal narrative of his experience with, and in nature, he strongly believed that all living things have rights that humans should recognize. He had a view that we a […]

Henry David Thoreau focuses a great deal of his chapter “Visitors” on a French Canadian woodchopper and post-maker. Thoreau admires the man’s simple worldview and practical reaction to lofty philosophical ponders. […]

While reading the chapters from Wednesday readings written by Henry David Thoreau, I was fascinated at the level of detail in which Thoreau describes his surroundings.  In the chapter, The Bean Field, Thoreau […]

Reading this passage connects with Thoreau’s attitude towards nature and solitude in the way of how he describes his journey between his house in the woods and the populated village. It is clear that he prefers […]

In class we discussed enslaved life in Cuba and Brazil. The Digital Public History: Slave Voyages site allows a deeper understanding of both larger trends in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as well as micro trends […]

I am interested in researching the life of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, and how his experiences and politics shaped Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. Chavez is an interesting and controversial figure, and […]

The primary source that I chose to analyze was Colored Officers or No Colored Soldiers by Presley Holiday. Sargent Presley Holliday’s document was a response to Roosevelt’s attack on African American sol […]

My research project will focus on homicides in Mexico. I will research the homicide rate in Mexico, along with the causes. The heavy increase in the number of homicides in Mexico has not gone unnoticed. It has […]

For the primary source analysis I read document 20, by John Clifford Brown. This document consists of excerpts from Brown’s diary, which he kept while serving as a common soldier in the Army during the […]

I would like to investigate women in Latin American Revolutions, in Chile and Cuba (perhaps a third could be added or just do these two comparatively). I find it interesting that the Cuban Revolution falls on […]

I would like to research the role that gender played in the Argentine Dirty War, both in terms of gender-based violence but also in terms of the peace movements led by women. When taking Peace Studies last year, I […]

I’d like to look at the different classifications of people in Jamaica during the 19th century. As a colony of the British Empire, there were three main classifications of people: British, slaves, and […]

As a GIS major with a focus in political science, international relations fascinates me. The Cold War has always been a period of history that interests me and I want to learn more about it from the Cuban […]

I read Henry M. Teller’s The People of the Island of Cuba Are, and of Right Ought to Be, Free and Independent. The primary source is preceded by a bit of context that is helpful in understanding the contents and […]

I would love to spend the semester looking into how feminism in Chile became so radical and powerful. I am interested in this, because of a viral video  I saw a few months ago of a group of women, blind fo […]