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Item Review: The Mass Production of Memory: Travel and Personal Archiving in the Age of the Kodak, by Tammy S. Gordon(UC Press, 2021-11) Shrum, Rebecca K.; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem Art Academies and Art Academy Schemes in Britain and Ireland, 1600-1770(16-07-20) Kelly, JasonBefore (and after) the establishment of the Royal Academy in London in 1768, there were numerous individuals and associations that proposed or implemented plans to create academies for the arts in Britain and Ireland. Examples can be traced to at least the early seventeenth century. To date, there is no publication that pulls together a single list of academies and/or academy schemes in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Britain and Ireland. In the chart below, I bring together the manuscript and secondary literature to offer a timeline of schemes, proposals, recommendations, and attempts to establish academies for the arts in Britain and Ireland between 1600 and 1770.Item Beth's Book: A Memoir(2022) Van Vorst Gray, Beth; Gray, Ralph D.Item Lesser Glory: The Civil War Military Career of Charles Remond Douglass(Institute for American Thought, 2021-12) McKivigan, John R.; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote by Melanie Beals Goan (review)(The Southern Historical Association, 2021-08) Morgan, Anita; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem The Future of Land-Grab Universities(University of Minnesota Press, 2021) McCoy, Meredith; Risam, Roopika; Guiliano, Jennifer; History, School of Liberal ArtsItem American Indian Sport History(Routledge, 2021) Guiliano, JenniferSwimming, cycling, and golf were modern as were the newer sports of baseball, basketball, and American football that would rise to public attention in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Lesser known sports as well as those with fewer professional opportunities have been overshadowed by considerations of how Natives fit into ‘the big three’. Games could demonstrate friendship between communities visiting for council or they could be used to settle disputes. Football, arguably the most well-known sport that Natives participated in, began at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1893. Hopi runner Louis Tewanima would participate in both the 1908 and 1912 Olympics, garnering silver in the 1912 10,000-metre event. Women at the Fort Shaw Indian School competed in, and won, the women’s basketball tournament at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The opportunities of Native sport were further mitigated by the rampant discrimination athletes faced.Item Digital Sport History: History and Practice(Routledge, 2021) Guiliano, JenniferFrom the digitization of analogue physical materials, to the recovery of materials stored on early media formats like floppy disks, to the harvesting of web and social media platforms that document the hundreds of thousands of sports forums and events, sport historians of the future will certainly have to confront digital artifacts and platforms when they write sport history. The entry point for most sport historians to digital sport history is through the consumption of digital resources in the form of digital archives and digital libraries. Digitization has enabled the identification of sport history sources in far-flung locales through digital catalogues, finding aids, and digital repositories. Digital project demonstrations at annual meetings, born-digital publications enabled by editors of press series and flagship journals, and the inclusion of peer-review of digital projects without hesitancy would go a long way to moving digital sports history from the periphery to the mainstream of our scholarly practice.Item Origins of the HIVs and the AIDS Outbreaks(2022-04-13) Schneider, William H.The AIDS pandemic was caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 group M (HIV-1M). It is not widely appreciated that there are three other HIV outbreaks that emerged independently in different regions of Africa during the last century. To date, 13 HIVs have been discovered, but only four of which became major outbreaks to varying degrees. HIV-1M is responsible for 90% of over 35 million deaths, and the other three epidemic HIVs are estimated to have infected from 25,000 to 750,000 people each. A handful of key determinants explain how and why this happened, including human interaction with the simian sources from which the HIVs emerged, but much more important were new ways that people spread the viruses to one another. The latter included population movement and urbanization, changes in sexual relations, war, and above all new medical procedures (unsterile injections and inadequately tested blood transfusions). The emergence of the viruses and their epidemic spread were not the result of a random mutation, but rather depended upon the combination of specific circumstances at different places and times. The AIDS pandemic was not a chance, natural occurrence; it is much more accurately described as a (hu)man-made disaster.Item “The Land of Great Tools”: How Two Generations of Labor Migrants Transformed Mexico’s Emigrant Heartland(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021) Snodgrass, Michael David