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The Rest of the Remains: The East Marshall Street Well Oral History and Memorialization Project
Dr. Christine Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

May 5, 2026 Christine Cynn / Virginia Commonwealth University and Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University Leave a comment

Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche explore the complexities of setting up the Health Humanities Lab’s East Marshall Street Well (EMSW) Oral History and Memorialization Project that grapples with memorialization and education around historical racist violence and stolen remains. This project proposes a kind of humanities practice that wrestles with unresolved histories that inform the present.

What Remains: The East Marshall Street Well Oral History and Memorialization Project
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

December 2, 2025 Christine Cynn / Virginia Commonwealth University and Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University Leave a comment

This article examines VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection and tracing current community-led efforts toward ethical research, oral history, memorialisation, and overdue reburial of the stolen remains.

Building the Television Network: AT&T’s Southwest Extension and the Fort Worth Rodeo
Selena Dickey / Furman University

July 17, 2024 Selena Dickey / Furman University One comment

Selena Dickey argues that the growth of nationwide, synchronous television service was a much more contingent, incremental, and local process than most media historians have previously acknowledged.

Exporting local nostalgia – Polish past for global audiences
Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University

March 6, 2024 Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University Leave a comment

Dr. Sylwia Szostak examines Netflix’s “nostalgia strategy” in a recent Polish film, Mr. Car and the Knights Templar, arguing that global distribution results in the delocalization of Netflix’s “local productions.”

The Homogenized Queerness of Historical Television
Britta Hanson / University of Texas at Austin

July 5, 2017 Britta Hanson 2 comments

What does the presence of queer characters accomplish in historical shows? How much historicity do their depictions require? Britta Hanson explores the positive – and frequently negative – implications of modern-framed queer characters placed in the past.

A Pedagogical Experiment in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina

February 26, 2017 Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina 3 comments

Susan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”

#TrumpIsRight: The Paradox of Digital Database Histories and Collective Memory
Eric Hahn / New York University

October 24, 2016 Eric Hahn / New York University One comment

Eric Hahn explores how user-generated digital databases complicate our understanding of the nature of reportage, history, and news coverage.

“Cibercultura” y cibercultur@

April 20, 2007 Jorge A. González / UNAM 4 comments

by: Jorge A. González / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Una propuesta en cuanto al neologismo “cibercultur@”: entenderlo como un objeto de estudio y como un valor
de desarrollo y empoderamiento social. / A proposal to
use the neologism “cybercultur@” to designate an area
of study, as well as describe a value for development and social empowerment.

El Inicio de la Investigación Científica de la Comunicación Social en América Latina

April 20, 2007 José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana 5 comments

by: José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana
Información sobre el proyecto Office of Inter-American Affairs [OIAA] dirigido por Nelson Rockefeller. / Information about the the Office of Inter-American
Affairs [OIAA], a project directed by Nelson Rockefeller.

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