Sumerian Mythology FAQ by Christopher Siren, 1992, 1994, 2000 cbsiren at alum dot mit dot edu This FAQ used to be posted on the third of every month to alt.mythology. An older text copy of this FAQ is available via anonymous ftp pending *.answers approval at: rtfm.mit.edu at /pub/usenet/news.answers/mythology/sumer-faq last changes: July 27, 2000: complete revision including incorporating Kramer's Sumerian Mythology and Black & Green's God's Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. Adapa (Dan Sullivan) has constructed a more complete Sumerian-English dictionary at: (Restored! I have constructed a rudimentary Sumerian-English, English Sumerian glossary using Kramer's The Sumerians and Jacobsen's Treasures of Darkness, although parties interested in the Sumerian language may be better served at the prior two pages. note: This FAQ is partly based on an anthropology paper which I wrote in 1992, using some of the sources detailed below. Contents: I. History Culture
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Background The author holds a chair in Humanities Computer Science at the University of Cologne. For a number of years, he has been responsible for digitization projects, either as project director or as the person responsible for the technology being employed on the projects. The author is currently project director of the project "Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Colonensis" (CEEC), which has just started and will ultimately consist of approximately 130,000 very high resolution color pages representing the complete holdings of the manuscript library of a medieval cathedral. The following paper has grown out of the design considerations for the mentioned CEC project. The paper takes the form of six theses on various aspects of the ongoing transition to digital libraries. 1. Thesis: The primary audience for a digital library is neither the leading specialist in the respective field, nor the freshman, but the advanced student or young researcher and the "almost specialist". Discussion: 2.
Fall from Grace: Arming America and the Bellesiles Scandal by James Lindgren Before there was a scandal, there was a book - Michael A. Bellesiles's Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Arming America is a well-written and compelling story of how early Americans were largely unfamiliar with guns until the approach of the Civil War. It tells a wide-ranging, detailed, but relatively unnuanced story of gunlessness in early America. According to Bellesiles, in early America there were very few guns. Unfortunately, except for the last claim of militia ineffectiveness, all 15 of these major contentions of Arming America turn out to be false. Two meta-arguments by Bellesiles might have direct public policy applications (though, as a work of history, Arming America does not directly advocate any gun policies). In this review article, I examine the following questions: How Common Was Gun Ownership? Arming America claims that we did not have a gun culture before the Civil War, but that we have had one since then.
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Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) | Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts. This site tells you more about the project itself and about historical GIS. A separate website, created by funding from the UK National Lottery and extended and re-launched with funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee, makes this resource available on-line to everyone, presenting our information graphically and cartographically.
The Gun Count That Won't Add Up The Gun Count That Won’t Add Up When Michael Bellesiles’ book on gun ownership in colonial America was published about a year ago, it seemed odd, slight, skewed. Even if its revisionist contention that few Americans owned guns before the Civil War were true and impeccably documented, that is hardly the stuff of a Eureka moment. It seemed more akin to discovering that frontier women didn’t wear much calico than, say, to proving Judge Roy Bean was a due process guy. Bellesiles, a history professor at Emory University, had his book–Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture–published by Alfred A. "This is the N.R.A.’s worst nightmare," the book’s jacket copy asserted. Gun-control advocates slavered over the new tin grail in their insufferable quest to convince us that the Second Amendment couldn’t possibly mean what it says. Eloquent, rave reviews flowed. Research is the lifeblood of knowledge, yet far too much of it has become the counterfeit coin of a bankrupt academic realm.
Add some #digitalhistory to your class | Stillwater Historians It’s the first week the semester up here in the snowy north and classes are underway. I’m teaching four this semester: two are small, great books courses in the Honors College and two are larger, focused on the state and cover a range of topics. This week I talked about the Aeneid, Nietzsche’s “Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense” and Maine’s open land tradition and it’s only Thursday! Next week it will be Zimbardo, Weber, more Aeneid, and Maine geology. The diversity is fun, the reading is time consuming but the great students I see every day make it all worthwhile. I bring bits and pieces of one class to the next and I use examples from one discipline to make points in another. I use lots of examples and show students lots of visuals in my History, Sociology, Honors and Maine Studies courses and I am always on the lookout for interesting ideas and new ways to present information. I really like having students think through the use of “tools.” 1. 2. 3. Like this: Like Loading...
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Hunting Guns in Colonial America By George C. Neumann Whether for protection on the frontier or for hunting in the backwoods, the smoothbore hunting gun played a pivotal role in times of peace and war in the American Colonies. The practice of hunting in England at the time the American Colonies were settled was legally restricted to the gentry. Trigger Guards(1.) Butt Tangs(1.) Special appreciation is extended to Joseph C.
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