In this talk, Dr. Vanessa Rouillon introduces her research on the early twentieth-century rhetorical and racial uplift work conducted in Bethel AME Church, an African American congregation in Champaign, Illinois.
A Few Stories from Cuban Library History, Told by a Protagonist
The distinguished Cuban librarian Marta Terry González is a UIUC George A. Miller Visiting Professor for Fall 2015. She will recount a few episodes of Cuban library history through a dialogue with Kate Williams, associate professor at GSLIS.
When I Served the Post as a Coachman
For nearly 400 years, like many empires before it, the Russian Empire used a post horse relay system as its basic communications system. Officials–and later paying private travelers–were provided with horses, at a series stations set ~30 kilometers apart, by populations obligated (as imperial subjects) to do so.
The missing history of LBJ’s Task Force on Communications Policy, 1967-71
The Task Force on Communication Policy, convened by President Lyndon Johnson in August, 1967, was a wide-angled and open-ended attempt…
Spies, secrets, and information work
Allan Pinkerton’s detective agency is generally recognized as a model for the FBI, and he established the U.S. Secret Service…
Chasing the dumpster
This talk chronicles twelve years of trying to track down and acquire newspapers for the American Antiquarian Society. This includes…
Collaborative knowledge production
Wikipedia is probably the most known format of collaborative knowledge production today. However, Ann Blair in Too Much to Know…
History of scientific peer review
Editorial peer review is known implicitly to scholars of all contemporary academic disciplines because it is a mechanism by which…
Entangled genealogies
To be a genealogist, to do genealogy, requires sources of information. These sources emerge as part of ever-evolving information infrastructures.…
Librarians and foreign policy in the early 20th century
In 1918, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) began funding International Mind Alcove collections in US public libraries to…
History Salon 