Submit to Historical Narratives!

Jonah Blumstein '09 sends in the following info about Historical Narratives:

Submit your history or historically inclined papers to Historical Narratives! Historical Narratives is Wesleyan's student-run undergraduate history journal. We're looking to publish pieces written by Wesleyan students. Works submitted do not have to be papers that were originally written for history classes, in the past we have also published works written for classes in a wide variety of departments, as well pieces written for other student publications, such as the Argus and Hermes.

Submission Guidelines:

• 1500+ words
• historical focus/methodology
• primary source research, no response papers
• eloquent and intriguing
• must have been written while the student was at Wesleyan
• attached as word doc, send to historical.narratives@gmail.com by midnight on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. This is our fall submission deadline, there will be another one in the early spring!

Eye of History: Discussion on Documentary Photography

Several of the photographers whose works are currently displayed in the Zilkha Gallery will be on campus tomorrow afternoon. Come for their panel discussion, Eye of History: The Camera as Witness, followed by a book signing and public reception:

Internationally renowned documentary photographers Wendy Ewald, Eric Gottesman and Susan Meiselas join acclaimed writer and critic David Levi Strauss in a panel discussion about photography's role in the world today. Wesleyan President and historian Michael Roth will introduce the panel. A Q&A session will follow. Participating as audience members will be a significant number of international scholars of photography and history including former photo editor of the NY Times, Vicki Goldberg.

Following the Panel there will be a public reception and book signing at Zilkha Gallery at 6:30 pm. If you haven't seen it already the reception will be a wonderful opportunity to view the current exhibition curated by Nina Felshin, "Framing and Being Framed: The Uses of Documentary Photography," which features works by the Panel presenters and other artists.

All are welcome. Hope you can join us for this exciting event.

To visit the presentation's website, click here.

Date: Friday, November 7
Time: 4:30 pm
Place: CFA Cinema, then viewing at 6:30 in Zilkha Gallery

Historical Narratives Seeks New Editors

Hannah Freece '09 writes in to ask:

Love history? Want to support your fellow students' academic work?
Join Historical Narratives, Wesleyan's entirely student-run history
journal! We publish a peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate papers
and reviews each year and are looking for more editors for the
2008-2009 edition. Students from all majors are welcome!

Don't forget to pick up your free copy of last year's journal in
front of the history department office!

What: Historical Narratives Editorial Meeting
When: Monday, September 22, 8:00 pm
Where: PAC 136

Tribal Leader Who Tried to Reclaim Middletown Passes Away

Aurelius Piper, Sr., chief of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett tribe, died two weeks ago at the age of 92 in the tribe's reservation in Trumbull. Piper was a great advocate for the rights of Native Americans and other minority groups, both locally in Connecticut and abroad.

The small Paugussett tribe has been recognized by Connecticut State for over 300 years, though never by the federal government, and recently the tribe filed claims to more than 700,000 acres of land from our very own Middletown, CT, down to lower Westchester County in New York. The claims were dropped, but could have remained had the tribe achieved federal recognition.

The tribe was also involved in an altercation with the government in 1993, in which the tribe attempted to sell untaxed cigarettes on the reservation. This resulted in a 10-week armed standoff between the Colchester faction of the tribe and the state police.

A complicated history. Here's a rough Google map of what might still be Paugussett land in an alternate universe:

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NYTimes: Aurelius Piper Sr., 92, Paugussett Tribe Chief, Is Dead

for what it's worth,

Paul Auster remembers Vietnam and student activism:

"...We at Columbia were powerless, and our little revolution was no more than a symbolic gesture. But symbolic gestures are not empty gestures, and given the nature of those times, we did what we could."

From here.