Site-Wide Activity

The Wooster Tree Ring Lab collaborated on a publication describing the recent thermal history of the Lidder Valley, Northwest Himalaya. Dr. Santosh Shah, the lead author, is a multitalented paleoclimatologist at […]

Hoy, está un poco soleado y hay personas y perros en los las calles. Está Es primavera en Wooster, y estoy feliz. Los arboles estan verdes y tienen flores. Los arboles en el la foto tienen flores blancos. Mis arbo […]

It is Coretta Scott King’s birthday! How do I know this? Elizabeth Warren tweeted about it. Warren’s tweet is not substantive and has no links to sources or anything that recognizes Coretta S. King’s life or […]

JR: You have chosen the archer’s shooting form depicted in this photograph. Tell me about the person who displays this form, about the archery school, and about archery itself and what your interest is in a […]

Constantin Brancusi, Untitled (Head of a Young Woman). 1910 (See image here: MOMA)
 
JR: Tell me about the object you’ve selected. Who is the artist? When did you first encounter it?
RW: This photo of a scu […]

!Esta semana, hablamos sobre la vida y la carrera de Mon Laferte! Además, hablamos sobre la objetificación de mujeres y nuestras canciones favoritas de ella. ¡Diviértete!

 
JR: Tell me about what this photo has captured.
ZS: The photo was taken from the deck of my grandparents’ time share beach house in Emerald Isle, North Carolina. I took it at sunset after a giant storm th […]

 
JR: What are we looking at? Is this a tourism advertisement? When was it created and how did you first encounter it?
MJ: This is a print made by Dorothy Dix in 1922. It was commissioned to encourage […]

¡Escucha a Ciudades Semana a Semana! En nuestro podcast, vamos a investigar una ciudad hispánica del mundo. Cada semana, cambiamos la ciudad. En el podcast, hablamos sobre la música, la historia, la comida, los lu […]

This post is partly inspired by recent student activism at the College of Wooster, represented collectively by the Galpin Call-in, as well more recently students, especially students of color’s concerns about […]

This article posted yesterday discusses the 1998 hate-crime killing of James Byrd Jr. It was reported that John William King, one of the two men held responsible with a life sentences in prison, was executed. The […]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The Danger of A Single Story”

In this class, while this course’s goal is to center African American History as central and part of the larger story of U.S. history, it also […]

Systematic Racism Explained

This morning we discussed the rise of conservativism in American politics and liberal and conservative law and order politics. Part of that discussion is connected to previous […]

“Kevin Kruse Takes to Twitter to School Dinesh D’Souza in American History” by Jeet Heer

Dinesh D’Souza gets a history lesson on Twitter. D’Souza has made a specialty of highlighting the undeniable racism of […]

Workshop II

Andrew Aldridge, “Killing Me Softly: An Observation of Hip Hop from a Feminist Lens”

This paper examines various ways women of color have fought against their portrayal in the male dominated hip […]

Para mi blog final, quise hacer algo especial. Yo escogí traducir algunos poemas que mi mejor amiga escribir escribió para yo mí. El primer poema se llama “My Dear,” o en español, “Mi Cielo.”

la nieve se derr […]

A beautiful spring day this morning and instead of staring at a mountain of email in my office, I went out to Wooster Memorial Park. The fresh air and sunshine did me good. Trees are leafing out, migratory […]

Palette knife painting, on Canvas by Chen. Found on Etsy here.
 
JR: I understand that for this assignment you decided not to pick something with which you had already been familiar, not something that had […]

 
JR: This looks like a promotional poster for a particular theater company. Is that what it is? Tell me         about the object: who created it? why? And, what are the words and images referring to? […]