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Crystal Palace project
Crystal Palace project The New York Crystal Palace exposition was America’s first world’s fair. Exhibitors from around the world showed off their latest machinery, consumer products, and raw materials. The catalog of the 1853 New York Crystal Palace listed most of the items on display and indicated where they might be found. The Crystal Palace … Crystal Palace project
Clyde Davenport
Clyde Davenport An early website incorporating music and image, about the Kentucky fiddler, Clyde Davenport. Clyde Davenport is an old-time fiddler and banjo player from south-central Kentucky. In 1990, Brown University ethnomusicologist Jeff Titon recorded music and interviews with Mr. Davenport and his family. He then created a multimedia, hypertextual, Hypercard stack with links to … Clyde Davenport
1968: The Whole World Was Watching Website
1968: The Whole World Was Watching Website 1968: The Whole World Was Watching is an oral history website developed in collaboration with students at South Kingstown High School. 1968: The Whole World Was Watching is an educational resource for secondary school students and teachers as well as for scholarly research on the period. Members of … 1968: The Whole World Was Watching Website
Catskills Institute
Catskills Institute Website of the Catskills Institute, documenting the importance of the Catskills in American Jewish Life The Catskills Institute website was developed by Phil Brown and his colleagues at the Catskills Institute to disseminate information about conferences and the photographs, ephemera, memorabilia and memoirs they have collected. Additionally, the site collected queries about people … Catskills Institute
Brazil Under Vargas
Brazil Under Vargas Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954) is arguably the most important Brazilian political figure of the twentieth century. From a wealthy landholding family in the south, Vargas became interim president in 1930 and then ruled the country until 1945. In 1937, he created the Estado Novo [New State], an authoritarian regime that relied on nationalism … Brazil Under Vargas
Brasiliana Collection
Brasiliana Collection Brazil has long been a subject of interest at Brown University Library. In 1912, the Library acquired the private collection of Col. George Earl Church (1835–1910), a noted engineer, explorer, soldier and investor from New Bedford, Massachusetts, also known as one of the lead engineers behind the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad project, a plan to … Brasiliana Collection
Boccaccio’s Decameron
Boccaccio’s Decameron The Decameron Web was begun in 1994 as a participatory hypertext project used to teach the Decameron. In 1997, STG encoded the text of the Decameron in SGML, and delivered it via a search engine. The Decameron consists of a hundred stories in Italian, told from the point of view of ten young … Boccaccio’s Decameron
Beyond Carnival
Beyond Carnival Welcome to the companion website to the 2001 edition of James N. Green’s book Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil, published by University of Chicago Press. This website was developed by students at Brown University working with James N. Green (Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History) and is hosted … Beyond Carnival