Beginning to restructure the institutional church: Canadian social catholics and the CCF, 1931-1944.
Following the formation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in the early 1930s, prominent Archbishops in Quebec issued episcopal directives against participating in and voting for the party. Re-examining how the Church opened to the CCF and offered limited acceptance by the mid-1940s reveals broader implications for the development of...

"From baby's first bath": Kao soap and modern Japanese commercial design.
When Nagase Tomiro opened his Western sundries shop in Tokyo in 1887, cosmetic soap used for the face and body was not commonly seen in the average Japanese household, and in Japan neither hand washing nor hair washing was the general custom that each is today. (1) Now known...

Taking stock: perspectives on British urban history *.
Abstract Drawing on an unprecedented volume of recent scholarship on the urban history of Britain, this paper seeks to identify areas for future academic research. These include a closer alignment of intellectual disciplines to cross-fertilise approaches to the historical study of towns and cities; a more resolute...

MIT to Make Nearly All Course Materials Available Free on the World Wide Web.
Unprecedented Step Challenges 'Privatization of Knowledge' CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- in an unprecedented step in world-wide education -- announced today it plans to make the materials for nearly all its courses freely available on the Internet over...

Mellon, Hewlett Foundations grant $11M to launch free MIT course materials on web.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation will fund the first phase of MIT OpenCourseWare, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's bold initiative to make nearly all of its course materials available for free on the World...

ACASA, March 31, 2004.
When Suzanne Blier first asked me to address the Arts Council of African Studies Association at the 2004 Triennial in Boston, I right away said yes, because it is a very great honor. I was at the 1995 Triennial in New York City and remembered it vividly....

MIT project offers free course materials online. (digital publishing: e-books * online & digital publishing * print-on-demand).
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) plans to make the materials for nearly all of its courses freely available on the Internet over the next 10 years in a project known as OpenCourseWare (OCW). Materials to be offered include lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments for each...

Smoke and mirrors: Willy Clarkson and the role of disguises in inter-war England.
"I, who have studied disguise almost as deeply as the great Willy Clarkson, will transform you into a perfect ruffian." Sax Rohmer, The Golden Scorpion, 1919. The notion of the "historian as detective" has a long lineage. (1) Today social and cultural historians investigating questions of sex,...

Comprehensive post-primary schooling in New Zealand: 1935-1975.
Introduction In light of contemporary critiques of New Zealand comprehensive schooling published mainly in the popular press, it is timely to re-examine the origins of and the rationale for the widespread adoption of this model of education. The comprehensive schooling philosophy, it was recently alleged, has produced...

Gabrielle M. Spiegel, ed. Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing After the Linguistic Turn.
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, ed. Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing After the Linguistic Turn. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 288. Paper, $34.95; ISBN 0-415-34108-6. Practicing History consists of debates on theoretical analysis in the last twenty-five years and on the tools of understanding and analyzing the...