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1) Southern Labor Studies Association seeks syllabi 2) New and recent programs from BackStory Radio 3) New website on documenting and preserving public health history ********** 1) Southern Labor Studies Association seeks syllabi The Southern Labor Studies Association is pleased to announce its newest project, the SLSA Syllabus Exchange. The association solicits submissions of completed course syllabi on themes related to labor and working-class history in the American South. We welcome both surveys of this topic as well as specialized classes on employment in a particular industry or place (such as mining in Appalachia, textile work in the Piedmont, etc.), different systems of work (slavery, indentured servitude, convict labor, waged labor, housework, etc.), or the relationship of labor and class to larger forces such as electoral politics, social movements, white supremacy, and patriarchy. We also encourage courses that explore oral history methodology, service learning, and other forms of field work in the Southern context. Please send your submissions in PDF format to mk63@duke.edu. The Exchange will be password protected, and only SLSA members will have access to the syllabi. If you are not yet a member of SLSA, please consider joining at the same time that you renew your membership in the Labor and Working-Class History Association, by visiting http://www.dukeupress.edu/lawcha/. ----------- 2) New and recent programs from BackStory Radio Podcast Exclusive: John Brown's Body This Halloween marks the 150th anniversary of John Brown's sentencing to death. He was sent to the gallows in December, as punishment for his infamous raid at Harpers Ferry. By the middle of that month, his body lay a-moulderin' in the grave, a fact memorialized in the little ditty known as "John Brown's Body." People still sing the song today; what has been lost to history is that it wasn't really about John Brown -- at least not the famous one. BackStory producer Rachel Quimby has the story of the song's true origins. Listen at http://www.backstoryradio.org/. Happy Holidays? A History of the Holiday Season It may seem early, but bear with us -- we need your help! This December, BackStory will release a brand new episode that looks at the history of the winter holidays. It will begin with the observation that the Puritans banned Christmas (!!!), and go on to explore the ways that the holiday as-we-know-it was re-invented in the 19th century. The rest of the show is wide open, and we'd love to hear what you want to hear. Please -- send us your thoughts, questions, and stories about the Christmas season. Visit http://www.backstoryradio.org/ and leave a comment on our website. Or send an email to backstory@virginia.edu. We just might invite you to join the History Guys in the studio! ----------- 3) New website on documenting and preserving public health history The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University today announced a new web site devoted to documenting and preserving public health history. The emphasis will be on oral histories, unpublished documents, photographs and artifacts. The site is http://globalhealthchronicles.org. The initial chronicle is devoted to the eradication of smallpox. There are 50 oral histories and 30 presentations at seminars held in conjunction with two reunions of staff who worked in the field during the eradication program. Admittedly it emphasizes the role of CDC and the United States and does not reflect the hundreds of thousands of health workers who were the backbone of the effort. The project is not static and will add materials as it becomes available. If members of this list have materials they would like to make available please contact me off the list at djud@mindspring.com. If you have an opportunity to record your experiences we will digitize them for addition. If your have artifacts that you would like to share we will digitize them and return to you. If you are in Atlanta we can arrange for a video oral history interview. Trip reports and diaries are great. We have some digitized but realized that they had patients' names and in order to be in line with today's standards of confidentiality we are redacting the names. They will soon be uploaded to the site. Anything submitted will be credited to the submitter. There is a short video on how to use the site at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrG6d9rKrg We realize there are some bugs, and are fixing them as we go. So if you have comments send them to me at djud@mindspring.com -- H-Public To post to the list: H-PUBLIC@h-net.msu.edu Home page: www.h-net.org/~public sponsored by the National Council on Public History (www.ncph.org)
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