Recent Networkwide Posts

• swolcott wrote a new post, An Account of Narragansett Motion, on the site Sense of Place in the Native Northeast 39 minutes ago

  Date: August 22-23, 1683

  This pair of documents discusses the land rights that the settlers have in Narragansett country. Over time there had been many treaties and deeds that were signed in the exchange of […]

• swolcott wrote a new post, Cheesechamut’s Deed to Warwick Neck, Rhode Island, on the site Sense of Place in the Native Northeast 48 minutes ago

  On December 28, 1665, Cheesechamut deeded the land of Warwick Neck to the gentlemen of Warwick. In exchange for the land, Cheesechamut and his tribe were to receive a small monetary sum but had to remove […]

• swolcott wrote a new post, Deed of the Land at Warwick by Miantonomo, on the site Sense of Place in the Native Northeast 53 minutes ago

  On January 1643, Miantonmo deeded a portion of the Narragansett land to a group of settlers for 144 wampom. As the chief of the Myantonomy, he had the authority to sell a portion of his tribes land. He sold a […]

• rring wrote a new post, The Bard in the Watkinson (13): First American edition, on the site The Bibliophile's Lair 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

  Literary historian George Churchill, writing in 1906, observed (with a typically imperialist tone) that a “people that is winning the soil out of the wilderness and defending itself against savages has no thought […]

• Arleigha Cook wrote a new post, Mental Side Effects of TBI: The Question of Addictive Personality, on the site The Brain 4 hours, 10 minutes ago

  Written by Arleigha Cook ’16

  In considering the many emotional side-effects of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that can lead to diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc., one of the central questions I […]

• rring wrote a new post, The Bard in the Watkinson (12): Johnson-Steevens-Reed edition, on the site The Bibliophile's Lair 5 hours, 48 minutes ago

  One of the big gaps in our collection is the first edition of Samuel Johnson’s text of Shakespeare, published in London in 1765 (8 volumes), and followed immediately that same year with a second edition. The third […]

• rring wrote a new post, The Bard in the Watkinson (11): Joseph Rann edition (1786-91), on the site The Bibliophile's Lair 6 hours, 22 minutes ago

  The edition of Shakespeare by Joseph Rann. This is an undistinguished publication from a scholarly point of view, but attractively printed. Joseph Rann (1733-1811), who was from Birmingham, was educated at Trinity […]

• rring wrote a new post, The Bard in the Watkinson (10): the Steevens “20 plays” edition of 1766, on the site The Bibliophile's Lair 7 hours, 11 minutes ago

  George Steevens (1736-1800) was born of wealthy parents, attended Eton and King’s College (Cambridge), and set about a career as an independent scholar, specializing mainly in Shakespeare.

  The edition shown […]

• cgeiss wrote a new post, Burnham Brook in Pouring Rain, on the site The Extension of my Arm 12 hours, 39 minutes ago

  

  Nope, the weather wasn’t at its finest when our senior seminar class left for Burnham Brok in East Haddam, CT. It was actually raining pretty hard when we left and it didn’t stop until we arrived about an hour […]

• Madison Starr wrote a new post, New/For Review Only: Research Proposal , on the site Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present 16 hours, 30 minutes ago

  Research Question: When did music education appear in elementary/secondary schools, and how advocates’ reasons for music education change over time?

  Why this topic deserves to be researched:

  Throughout my […]