...Jonathan D. Martin Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 ”The Grandest and Most Cosmopolitan Object Teacher”: BufSalo Bill’s Wild West and the Politics of American Identity, 1883-1899...

...Jonathan D. Martin Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 ”The Grandest and Most Cosmopolitan Object Teacher”: BufSalo Bill’s Wild West and the Politics of American Identity, 1883-1899...

...: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession, to be published in the spring of 1988 by Cambridge University Press. In the book 1 treat the cultural, political, and professional pressures which have moved historians this way and that on the objectivity question from the 1880s through...

...David Serlin Copyright © 1998 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1998 Building Objectivity: Recent Feminist Histories of Science David Serlin Londa Schiebinger, Nature’s Body: Gender and the Making of Modern...

...Alejandra Bronfman This essay will use the documentation surrounding the objects displayed in Cuba's Museum of Legal Medicine (among them, an “ aero buey fantastico ” made out of bread crumbs by inmates at Havana's Hospital for the Demented) to examine the logics that bound ethnography, medicine...

...Mimi Thi Nguyen “Minor Threats” considers the entry of minor objects—including the author's own zines—into increasingly institutionalized punk archives. What happens to the brats, new bloods, poison girls, androids of Mu, persons unknown, or younger lovers when we are called on to fill a void...

...—that is, not as a historian would but through interpolation and anachronism, focusing on the archive's feel and “mere” form. Rather than reconstruct the ways that archival materials inhabit a discrete historical period, this essay explores what it means to focus on the human agents that pull archival objects from circulation...

... China, this article introduces the idea of “nutritional governmentality,” defined as a state's use of nutritional knowledge to conceptualize its political objectives and administer the health of its population in a manner suitable to meeting those objectives. MARHO: The Radical Historians...

... years of the twentieth century, rural electrification became a technology of the New Deal regime inasmuch as it helped give the rural a conceptual rigor that turned it into a governable object. In the process, rural electrification (1) differentiated the concept of the rural from other concurrent, often...

... history and examines its potential for the advancement of women. The characteristic advantage of Resolution 1325 is its central idea of the empowerment of women in conflict and postconflict settings. However, have the objectives of the resolution been adequately endorsed at the international level? Have...

... contrasting strategies for change within the women's movement, while the second part evaluates the success of the human rights state in light of feminists' objectives. As a locus of activism in Canada by the seventies—with the first gay-rights organizations and parades, the most radical feminist organizations...

..., are constituted by these atmospheric states of material and affective disarray and the narratives spun from them. As such, this essay maps out these queer immigrant archives (conceived as mess) to showcase the relationships between and among objects, bodies, narratives, and desires. © 2014 by MARHO: The Radical...

... examination of not only objects on display but also the deeper logic of the categorizing schemes used in each museum. The official history of crime presented to the public, epitomized by police museums, provides a fascinating counterpoint to the contemporary academic history of crime in Latin America, which...

... of an intimate knowledge of petty crime, criminal episodes embedded in folk memory, and gruesome sensationalism. This essay argues that in this mix of objects evoking technological modernity and empirical knowledge of the “other side” of social reality lies a critical claim to intellectual superiority...

..., in order to enact a concrete imperial priority: growing cotton. One way the occupiers implemented this policy objective was through the design and construction of the Aswan Dam (1898 – 1902) by British engineers and British engineering firms. The engineers followed nineteenth-century hydraulic engineering...

...Holly Blake; Melissa Ooten This article explores the course objectives, pedagogy, and texts/assignments of the course “Gender, Race and Activism.” Learning about the historical traditions of social movements is critical for today's students. They need social justice role models in order...

... draconian ways of dealing with the Irish populace. The period since 1996, during which Ireland has become a country of immigration, illustrates how racism has undergone a transformation into the object of official state policies to eliminate it. Yet it flourishes as part of a globalized set of power...

... politics, power sharing, and cultural pluralism explains the difficulty Provisionals have had in constructing a viable political project that conforms to deeply held and long-standing republican objectives. Moreover, the emphasis on ethnic particularism and identity politics, rather than on social...

... of student experience, learning objectives, and theoretical frames used for creating knowledge grounded in African thought. Special consideration is given to the presumed capacity of students outside privileged educational institutions in the United States, the consequences for mentoring and stimulating new...