Five Centuries of Change The goal of the web companion to Brazil: Five Centuries of Change is to provide both students of the textbook and those generally interested in Brazilian history with resources and images related to Brazil. The textbook provides a detailed and thorough history of the country; the website brings it to life. … Five Centuries of Change
Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427 Database A database of Renaissance Florentine tax data. The Online Catasto of 1427 is a web-searchable version of tax data for the city of Florence in 1427-29 based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480. The … Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427 Database
Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532 The Tratte is a database of office holders and candidates for office in Renaissance Florence (1282-1532). Used together with the Online Catasto, it can be mined for information about population, income and political office. This site gives access to a data base with information about office … Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532
Fox Point Oral History project Oral histories, transcripts, photos, and other materials related to Fox Point, Providence, RI. Since 2008, Brown University students have worked to preserve and present the cultural heritage of Providence’s Fox Point neighborhood through oral history interviews and public programs. This site allows visitors to hear audio interviews, read transcripts of … Fox Point Oral History project
Freedom Now! An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University Archival material and essays about the Civil Rights Movement and the Brown/Tougaloo relationship, collected and presented by students from Brown and Tougaloo. During 2002, Susan Smulyan and James Campbell, together with students and colleagues at Brown and its sister school Tougaloo College did research … Freedom Now! An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University
Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento A mid-19th century panorama painted in England, and illustrations from British, French, and German newspapers (c. 1850-1885) regarding Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), the military leader of the Italian Risorgimento, and his career. The Garibaldi Panorama and the Risorgimento project provides a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the … Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento
Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 The Reynolds family, traveling aboard the steamship “Taiyo Maru,” survive a tsunami and arrive on the scene of the 1923 Kanto earthquake disaster. This project, done in collaboration with students of Modern Japanese History, features photographs and ephemera, documents the destruction to Yokohama, and serves as a unique travelogue. Great … Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
Illustrated Quixote In the fall of 2005, the Brown University Library celebrated the 400th anniversary of the publication of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha with an exhibit featuring book illustrations and title pages from the first edition of this novel in 1605 to 2004. This project, a digital version of physical exhibit, … Illustrated Quixote
Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine A corpus of inscriptions in Greek, Hebrew and Latin from the area of Israel/Palestine from about 500BCE to 500 CE. The Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine project seeks to collect and make accessible all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE … Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine
Invested in Community Brown University’s Department of Music hosted the first conference on Applied Ethnomusicology. Participants from Europe and the United States discussed various ways in which Ethnomusicologists work directly in and on behalf of communities outside of academia. This project provides streaming video files of conference presentations. Website Status: Completed Invested in Community is a … Invested in Community
