The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance. This roundtable discussion will be one of several events leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the peaceful protest efforts that forced the University to establish a Black Studies unit on campus. The panelists will examine several...
The 1969 Morrill Hall Takeover: University of Minnesota Veteran Activists Reflect on Black Bodies in Resistance. This roundtable discussion will be one of several events leading up to the fortieth anniversary of the peaceful protest efforts that forced the University to establish a Black Studies unit on campus. The panelists will examine several...
Sonic Boom: The 1964 Oklahoma City Experiment and the Politics of the Cold War Soundscape This talk will consider the history of sonic booms with a special focus on the now-forgotten 1964 Oklahoma City Experiment, when the people of a medium-size American city were bombarded by eight sonic booms a day, every day for six months. In the context of...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Suisman, David
Created:
2014-03-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Sonic Boom: The 1964 Oklahoma City Experiment and the Politics of the Cold War Soundscape This talk will consider the history of sonic booms with a special focus on the now-forgotten 1964 Oklahoma City Experiment, when the people of a medium-size American city were bombarded by eight sonic booms a day, every day for six months. In the context of...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Suisman, David
Created:
2014-03-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This is the first globular map to use the term "America" in designating the continents of the New World. It was originally published to accompany Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae introductio.
Creator:
Waldseemüller, Martin
Created:
1507
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, produced in Venice. Inscriptions in Italian (Venetian dialect) and Portuguese. On the upper border of the chart is a scale of miles which represents 400 miles. For a discussion of this chart see: Cortesão, Armando. The nautical chart of 1424. Coimbra : University of Coimbra, 1954.
Creator:
Pizzigano, Zuane
Created:
1424
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
