Fun tidbits about Gallaudet that I picked up during today’s research: In the 1890s, on 7th Street, halfway between Florida and H, was a deli owned by a couple – the husband was deaf. During a Hare and Hound run around 1900, the men wore their black and white striped football uniforms. The hare led [...]
Posts Tagged ‘history’
Deaf Records
Thanks to Breza, I have been poring over the newly-released U.S. Special Census on Deaf Family Marriages and Hearing Relatives, 1888-1895 at Ancestry.com – thank goodness I have a membership! I know I’ve already mentioned it on Twitter and Facebook, but I wanted to talk a little more about it. I’m already finding interesting little [...]
Connections to the Past (37/49)
Britain’s last surviving WWI soldier died on Saturday; Harry Patch was 111 years old. A couple of months ago, Millvina Dean died at the age of 97; she was the last living survivor of the Titanic disaster. It makes me sad whenever we lose one of these links to the past. Another example was the [...]
To Prevent Collapse
I’m reading Jared Diamond’s book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed right now, and it perfectly illustrates why I want to become a historian. If a civilization doesn’t write things down, they will become lost. Just writing is not enough, of course; the Maya wrote things down but Diego de Landa destroyed some [...]
Movie Review: Milk
:A: and I went to see Milk with my mom today. It was only playing at The Charles, so we went to Baltimore and had lunch at The Yabba Pot beforehand. We got to the movie a few minutes before it started and settled in to watch. To say I was unimpressed would be an [...]
Advocate Column
I’m surprised by how much Jasmyne Cannick’s article No Country for Black Men bothers me. I have been told to “get out of America” because of my opinions about the president and our government, but when Cannick says how much she dislikes America, I find myself wanting to tell her to get out. For some [...]
Classes
I’m adding a fifth class this semester. I’m nervous because I’ve always taken only four in the past, but I think I should be able to handle it. It’s the “Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning in Context” class, and the specific subject is “A Psycho-Social and Biological View of HIV/AIDS.” It’s a service learning class, and [...]
Girl Scout Uniforms
Just some thoughts as I browse through the “shop” section of the Girl Scouts of the USA site. There is a big flower on the Daisy tunic now! And what’s this? A Daisy VEST? Nooooo! They wear tunics! For some reason they even sell a set of iron-on petals…that can’t be because they still sell [...]
Gallaudet’s Oral/Manual Debate
I’m still reading the “first 50 years” history of Gallaudet, and I find it interesting to note that the oral/manual debate has been going on there since 1868. When Edward Miner Gallaudet convened the first National Conference of Principals of Institutions for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, he didn’t send invitations to some [...]