Brown University and History

Here is the press release from Brown re: a review of its historical ties to slavery.

Northwest debate: Is hydropower 'clean'?

In William Yardley's article "Northwest debate: Is hydropower "clean?" in the New York Times, he writes about a new debate about the Columbia River over hydroelectric dams. According to Yardley, the fishing community in the Columbia want the damns removed because they harm fishing grounds. On the other hand, however, Pacificorp, the company that built hyroelectric dams, argue that even though they pollute the river, the dams are a clean source of energy that does not pollute the air and lead to climate change.

http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.bu.edu/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T4942034551&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T4942034592&cisb=22_T4942034589&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&selRCNodeID=31&nodeStateId=411en_US,1&docsInCategory=6&csi=8357&docNo=3

WWF Pandas in Paris!

So we were just talking about this in class today. I found an article about paper mache pandas set up in Trocadero (Army and Naval Museums in Paris) by WWF members.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,585206,00.html

More in Common with the Writer of Generation Kill

Evan Wright, the embedded reporter who went on to write Generation Kill, was actually a history major in college.

Here's a set of interviews with the some of the cast of Generation Kill, some of the actual soldiers, and Evan Wright himself.

Mad Men - Selling an AD

This video shows an adman of the 1960s selling his idea for the Kodak carousel.

Reel History

I found this website through Lehigh University which is the 'Reel American History Project' which was created by students at the school to 'study the history that movies make'...i thought it was fitting considering what we talked about last week:
the link is here

pretty extensive resource for looking at the film shapes history...

Sweetness and Power

Here is a video of Sidney Mintz discussing Sweetness and Power.