White, Black, or Colorblind: The Past and the Future of Affirmative Action - Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. xv + 238 pages, Cloth, $25.95). - Kevin L. Yuill, Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of Limits (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. viii + 265 pages. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.95).

Roger Bacon has often been victimized by his friends, who have exaggerated and distorted his place in the history of mathematics. He has too often been viewed as the first, or one of the first, to grasp the possibilities and promote the cause of modern mathematical physics. Even those who have noticed that Bacon was more given to the praise than to the practice of mathematics have seen in his programmatic statements an anticipation of seventeenth-century achievements. But if we judge Bacon by twentieth-century criteria and pronounce him an anticipator of modern science, we will fail totally to understand his true contributions; for Bacon was not looking to the future, but responding to the past; he was grappling with ancient traditions and attempting to apply the truth thus gained to the needs of thirteenth-century Christendom. If we wish to understand Bacon, therefore, we must take a backward, rather than a forward, look; we must view him in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries rather than his successors; we must consider not his influence, but his sources and the use to which he put them.

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Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America. By Gary Laderman (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xlii plus 245pp. $35.00)

Journal of Social History ◽

10.1353/jsh.2004.0143 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 541-543

Author(s):

R. V. Wells

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Cultural History ◽

Funeral Home ◽

Oxford University ◽

History Of ◽

Twentieth Century America ◽

Oxford University Press

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Fifteenth Century Saints, Nineteenth Century Neurologists, and Twentieth Century Immunotherapy: The Eccentric History of Multiple Sclerosis

Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine ◽

10.23861/ejbm20052189 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 73

Author(s):

Paul J Maglione

Keyword(s):

Multiple Sclerosis ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

History Of

Multiple sclerosis has a long, fascinating, serendipi- tous, and well-documented history. The first recorded mention of the disease can be dated back to the fifteenth century, while a truly exhaustive investigation of the disorder began with the nineteenth century’s burgeoning neurologists. These records reveal a fascinating story of meticulous science aimed at comprehending a truly perplexing illness, one that even today is not completely understood. The great nineteenth century French neurologist Jean-Marie Charcot became very interested in studying this disease, and through his celebrity garnered much attention to a previously unknown affliction. Here we review a story of pioneering research that grants brief tribute to some of the more remarkable experiments, wondering if ideas born in the past may help develop solutions in the future.

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Bharathi’s Concept of Women Liberation: Legacy and novelty

10.34256/tak20201 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kalpana B ◽

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Future Generation ◽

Language Politics ◽

Tamil Literature ◽

The Past ◽

Feminist Ideology ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

The Way

Subramania Bharathi is probably the greatest poet in the History of Tamil literature. Many books and articles have been written both in English and Tamil praising his works and criticizing him for the past hundred years. His works have been taken up for research, to analyze Nationalism, language, politics, literature, translation, philosophy, feminism and religion. This book entitled “Bharathi’s concept of women liberation: Legacy and novelty” analyzes his feminist thoughts and the lives of women during his period. The author of this book Dr. B. Kalpana carefully analyzes about Bharathi’s works, his period, tradition, his innovative and modern thoughts that paved the way to the future generation. In this book, Dr. B. Kalpana points out, how Bharathi overcame tradition, and became a revolutionary poet of the twentieth century. Bharathi’s feminist ideology is carefully analyzed in this book from the historical perspective.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780197563526.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Jason Lustig

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Jewish History ◽

The United States ◽

Community Based ◽

The Past ◽

The Holocaust ◽

The Future ◽

Modern Jewish History ◽

History Of

The introduction presents the book’s core argument that twentieth-century Jewish archives were not just about the past but also about the future: We can look to a process whereby Jews turned increasingly toward archives as anchors of memory in a rapidly changing world. Jews in Germany, the United States, and Israel/Palestine all sought to gather the files of the past in order to represent their place in Jewish life and articulate a vision of the future. It situates these projects in the history of community-based archiving and archival theory and methodology, as well as Jewish history at large. It also dives into the ways we can see archive making as a metaphor for the broader patterns in modern Jewish history, as Jews sought to gather the sources and resources of their culture both before the Holocaust and especially in its aftermath.

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Manifestations of the Flying Dutchman: On Materializing Ghosts and (Not) Remembering the Colonial Past

Cultural History ◽

10.3366/cult.2015.0093 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 187-205

Author(s):

Agnes Andeweg

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Real Object ◽

Technological Advancement ◽

Colonial History ◽

Spectral Character ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Technological Developments ◽

History Of ◽

Wide Dissemination

This article investigates remediations of the Flying Dutchman legend – the story about a ghost ship doomed to sail the oceans forever – in English and Dutch sources from the nineteenth and twentieth century. It explains the popularity and wide dissemination of the Flying Dutchman by interpreting the story, firstly, within the context of Anglo-Dutch colonial competition and, secondly, within the context of new technological developments, paying particular attention to the moments when the Flying Dutchman seems to lose its spectral character and becomes a real object or person. Of the two interpretations of the spectre put forward here – staging colonial history versus staging technological advancement –, the second seems to be the more dominant throughout the history of continuous remediation and adaptation of the Flying Dutchman. When the ghost materializes, temporality is reversed: the focus shifts from the present's fraught relation to the past to the present's imagination of the future. In the dissemination of the figure itself however the colonial dimension is often still present.

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