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Inter-Department Project Collects Thousands of Slave Resistance Stories
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A team of Cornell researchers is collecting “thousands of stories of resistance” in the form of artifacts to shed light on part of America’s troubled past.
Cornell Adult University
Cornell Historian to Lead New Civil War Tour Next Fall
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By busing participants to various battlefields and including a lecture each day by Prof. David Silbey ’90, the tour aims to bring “understanding [of] the battle at the ground level,” Silbey told The Sun.
military journalism
Cornell Law Student Releases New Book About Journalism in World War I
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“Standards for journalistic norms and ethics would not be solidified until the decade after the War ended, so this period of war reporting often was marked by a noted lack of objectivity,” Kelley said.
Biplane
Not a Plane Left Behind: WW1 Biplane Manufactured in Ithaca Returns Home for Centenary Flight Over Town
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The aircraft was produced in Ithaca by the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation from 1917 to 1918.
Columns
GROSKAUFMANIS | Framing History
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This September, students in my old school district in Virginia returned to a newly named Justice High School — previously J.E.B. Stuart High. Same walls and infrastructure; new decorations, sports uniforms and absence of Confederate memorialization. Stuart, the dethroned-honoree-in-question, was a Confederate general who fought to maintain slavery. The name change, which neutralizes the school’s explicit nod to Confederate history, was the subject of a long, arduous debate that is still ongoing, according to the nearly 200 comments on the Washington Post’s most recent coverage. From one end, this name adjustment is read as an attempt to rewrite history, a pandering to political correctness.
Guggenheim Fellowships
Cornell Faculty and Alumni Awarded 5 of 175 Guggenheim Fellowships
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Two Cornell professors and three alumni were awarded Guggenheim fellowships this year for work in a diverse range of fields.
history
Historian Reveals Role of International Law in Blocking Ottoman Colonialism
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Prof. Mostafa Minawi, history, said the Ottoman Empire used ambiguous legal language for expansionist practices known as “juridical colonialism.”
politics
Classics Historian Gleans Wisdom from Greco-Roman Political Thought
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Prof. Barry Strauss’74, an author of eight books and a historian of war, leadership and democracy, detailed the historical roots of populism dating back to ancient Athens and the Roman Republic.
african american
Historian Examines Islam in African American Communities in Brooklyn
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Our current political climate is not the only instance when Muslim Americans have been framed as outsiders, according to oral historian Zaheer Ali in a lecture Thursday.
cornell literary society
Cornell Literary Society Panel Discusses Universality, Cultural Power of Plays
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We are living in a “fractured culture” and playwriting is a means of reparation, according to award-winning playwright Neil Wechsler, who spoke in a panel Wednesday in Goldwin Smith Hall.