About
This blog is presided over by the spirit of Alexander Humboldt and inspired by the ideas of Stephen Greenblatt on “cultural mobility” and Peter Burke on “cultural hybridity, ” along with some of my own longstanding interests: the Atlantic world, shipwrecks & failed utopias, the history & cultures of the Americas, race matters, “loathsome copulations,” borders, frontier & boomtowns, the Archive, the banjo, travel, women & real estate, and men on ships.
This blog is also a learn-as-you-go experiment in doing digital history. My hope is this will become a space to discuss and explore new and creative ways to make use of electronic media for the teaching and learning of history.
“Weimar in America” is the Spring 2012 Capstone Course of the Master of Arts in the Study of the Americas offered at the Center for Worker Education, a division of the City College of New York.
“Old Shatterhand” is the nom de blog of Jet Adams, grad student. In the western novels written by Karl May (1842-1912), Old Shatterhand is the blood brother of the Apache Winnetou.
Header image is courtesy of the NYPL at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?479885
Cowboys und Indianer 