The title of the painting comes from a line in T.S. Eliot's 1920 poem "Gerontion," excerpted below by artist: "After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think nowHistory has many cunning passages, contrived corridorsAnd issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,Guides us by vanities. Think nowShe gives when our attention is distractedAnd what she...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Afsaneh Nozari and her family fled Iran after the Shah was overthrown. After enduring several hardships, she made it to the United States and began a new life there.
Creator:
Crawford, Catherine
Created:
2018-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
The Art and Ambivalence of Afropolitan Patriotism: Making Malian Music in Times of Celebration and Crisis. Ryan Thomas Skinner is an Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. In this talk, Professor Skinner presents from his project, Afropolitan Ethics: Music and Urban Culture in Bamako, Mali, consid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Art and Ambivalence of Afropolitan Patriotism: Making Malian Music in Times of Celebration and Crisis. Ryan Thomas Skinner is an Assistant Professor of Music and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. In this talk, Professor Skinner presents from his project, Afropolitan Ethics: Music and Urban Culture in Bamako, Mali, consid...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Skinner, Ryan
Created:
2012-10-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1989 - 1997
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World. Professor Bee discusses recent and ongoing research in his lab that aims to understand how female gray treefrogs perceive male mating calls in the noisy environment of a breeding chorus. There are important health and technological considerations associated...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bee, Mark A.
Created:
2009-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Breeding Choruses and Cocktail Parties: A Frog's Perspective on Hearing in a Noisy World. Professor Bee discusses recent and ongoing research in his lab that aims to understand how female gray treefrogs perceive male mating calls in the noisy environment of a breeding chorus. There are important health and technological considerations associated...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bee, Mark A.
Created:
2009-01-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1967 - 1972
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1978
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1977
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1976
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1975
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1974
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1973
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1972
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains materials regarding the life and career of Allan H. Spear. Allan H. Spear was born Michigan City, Indiana in 1937. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1958 and earned an M.A.(1960) and a PhD from Yale University (1965). In 1965, Spear was hired in the History Department at the University of Minnesota to teach American and A...
Creator:
Spear, Allan H., 1937-2008
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This folder contains administrative materials regarding the founding and activities of the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Materials include faculty files, meeting minutes and agendas, newsletters, handbooks, correspondence, and memos. On January 14, 1969, members of the Afro-American Action Com...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Dept. of Afro-American and African Studies.
Created:
1990 - 1999
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Minnesota Issues was a half-hour weekly television program produced by University Media Resources of the University of Minnesota that was broadcast on public television channel KTCA, St. Paul. The program was produced and hosted by former Minneapolis mayor and University public affairs professor Arthur Naftalin from 1976 to 1988. [broadcast Sept...
Creator:
University of Minnesota. University Media Resources
Contributor:
Naftalin, Arthur; Berger, Ben N.; Marlow, Andrew (Producer)
Created:
1983-08-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1980 - 1981
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1980 - 1981
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1980 - 1981
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1982 - 1984
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Africans is part of Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the... a series of prints dealing with issues of stereotyping Native Americans and other racial groups.
Creator:
Oscar Arredondo
Created:
2000
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
On history, documentary, and well-being: A call and response about the ways African American & Afro-diaspora histories inform contemporary well-being Daniel Pierce Bergin is an award-winning television producer, media educator, and independent filmmaker. He was hired at Twin Cities Public Television right after college, and in the past 15 years ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bergin, Dan; Mayes, Keith; Onishi, Yuichiro
Created:
2014-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wild Flowers: African-Atlantic Epistemology and the Politics of Garden and Landscape History. Grey Gundaker will present work based on her project, Blackness and the History of Landscape Design. Criticizing garden lovers is like attacking apple pie, but in practice the European and American love affair with the Garden as an ideal has helped shap...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gundaker, Grey
Created:
2012-09-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Wild Flowers: African-Atlantic Epistemology and the Politics of Garden and Landscape History. Grey Gundaker will present work based on her project, Blackness and the History of Landscape Design. Criticizing garden lovers is like attacking apple pie, but in practice the European and American love affair with the Garden as an ideal has helped shap...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Gundaker, Grey
Created:
2012-09-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Material Journeys: African Art in Motion. Dr. Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Curator of African Art at the Minneapolis of Institute of Art, speaks about the redesigned African art galleries at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, particularly in the context of a globalizing art market.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Grootaers, Jan-Lodewijk
Created:
2016-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
African American YMCA secretaries on and in front of a porch, with a tent at left. Individuals are identified by numbers. A boy in front holds a YMCA pennant.
Created:
1910 - 1915
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
An unidentified African American man wearing McCarthy buttons speaking to unidentified African American men during McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign
Creator:
Immerman, Bob
Contributor:
McCarthy Staff Photo
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This folder contains materials created/collected by Jesse Nelson Alexander, Jr., born August 19, 1928 in Somerset, Kentucky. Alexander's involvement with the YMCA dates from 1946, when he was recruited as a youth leader for the Chestnut Street YMCA in Louisville, Kentucky. His YMCA career took him from Louisville to Chicago; Brooklyn, New York;...
Creator:
Alexander, Jesse N.
Created:
1992
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
An African-American man speaks at a microphone, his hands in his pockets. The microphone heads are covered with clear plastic bags that appear to be covered with drops of rain.Stamped on the back of the photograph "McCarthy Staff Photo".
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the United States Youth Council, a federation of youth and student associations that coordinated youth activities, conducted research, promoted youth social justice and leadership programs, and coordinated with international youth organizations. This folder specifically contains materials relat...
Creator:
United States Youth Council
Created:
1960 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the United States Youth Council, a federation of youth and student associations that coordinated youth activities, conducted research, promoted youth social justice and leadership programs, and coordinated with international youth organizations. This folder specifically contains materials relat...
Creator:
United States Youth Council
Created:
1960 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the United States Youth Council, a federation of youth and student associations that coordinated youth activities, conducted research, promoted youth social justice and leadership programs, and coordinated with international youth organizations. This folder specifically contains materials relat...
Creator:
United States Youth Council
Created:
1960 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the United States Youth Council, a federation of youth and student associations that coordinated youth activities, conducted research, promoted youth social justice and leadership programs, and coordinated with international youth organizations. This folder specifically contains materials relat...
Creator:
United States Youth Council
Created:
1960 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Relief shown pictorially.; "Cum gratia et privil. S.R.I. Vicari atg., in partibg. Rheni, Suevice, et juris Franconici."; Has watermark of a fleur-de-lis.; Includes text: "Spectatori Curioso".; Map margins include descriptions of the climate zones by latitude.; Decorative title cartouche includes illustrations of animals and native people, pyrami...
Creator:
Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756
Contributor:
Probst, Johann Michael, 1727-1776
Created:
1760
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1976 - 1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
This folder contains records documenting the administrative role and activities of the Office of the President at the University of Minnesota, specifically materials regarding protests and disputes over apartheid in South Africa.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. President's Office.
Created:
1978 - 1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Relief shown pictorially.; [Prime meridian: Tenerife.]; ""Cum privilegio ad decennium.""; Decorated with images of galleons, sea monsters, and various animals including crocodiles, elephants, lions and lionesses, monkeys, and ostriches.; Title appears in decorative cartouche.; Nine city views within decorative border at top: Tanger [Tangiers] --...
Creator:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Created:
1630?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Published in: Africa : being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations of their coasts, harbor...
Creator:
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676
Created:
1670
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Continente Africano; etc. extrahido de um Mappamundi existente no Museo Britannico, Antonio Sancesaes, 1623, 44.3 x 49.8 cm. -- Africa [south and east] extrahido do atlas M.T. feito por Diogo Homem em 1558 existente no Museo Britannico, 64.8 x 46.1 cm. -- Africa [south and west] extrahido do atlas M.T. feito por Diogo Homem em 1558 existente no ...
Creator:
Homem, Diogo
Contributor:
Lavradio, Antonio de Almeida Portugal Soares, Marquês de, 1794-1874; Sancesaes, Antonio
Created:
1860
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Continente Africano; etc. extrahido de um Mappamundi existente no Museo Britannico, Antonio Sancesaes, 1623, 44.3 x 49.8 cm. -- Africa [south and east] extrahido do atlas M.T. feito por Diogo Homem em 1558 existente no Museo Britannico, 64.8 x 46.1 cm. -- Africa [south and west] extrahido do atlas M.T. feito por Diogo Homem em 1558 existente no ...
Creator:
Homem, Diogo
Contributor:
Lavradio, Antonio de Almeida Portugal Soares, Marquês de, 1794-1874; Sancesaes, Antonio
Created:
1860
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
Continente Africano; etc. extrahido de um Mappamundi existente no Museo Britannico, Antonio Sancesaes, 1623, 44.3 x 49.8 cm. -- Africa [south and east] extrahido do atlas M.T. feito por Diogo Homem em 1558 existente no Museo Britannico, 64.8 x 46.1 cm. -- Africa [south and west] extrahido do atlas M.T. feito por Diogo Homem em 1558 existente no ...
Creator:
Homem, Diogo
Contributor:
Lavradio, Antonio de Almeida Portugal Soares, Marquês de, 1794-1874; Sancesaes, Antonio
Created:
1860
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
This folder contains materials regarding the life and career of Allan H. Spear. Allan H. Spear was born Michigan City, Indiana in 1937. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1958 and earned an M.A.(1960) and a PhD from Yale University (1965). In 1965, Spear was hired in the History Department at the University of Minnesota to teach American and A...
Creator:
Spear, Allan H., 1937-2008
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,300,000. Hand colored. Pictorial relief. Insets: A chart of the Gold Coast ... [1:1,150,000]--[Azores or Western Islands, scale not given]. Includes descriptive text and ill. of Africans. Prime meridian: Ferro. Illus. cartouche.
Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794; Bourguignon d' Anville, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1782
Created:
1772
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,300,000. Hand colored. Pictorial relief. Insets: A chart of the Gold Coast ... [1:1,150,000]--[Azores or Western Islands, scale not given]. Includes descriptive text and ill. of Africans. Prime meridian: Ferro. Illus. cartouche.
Creator:
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794; Bourguignon d' Anville, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1782
Created:
1772
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Oil on masonite depicting African animals. Belongs to a series of murals of animals and people of the world that Francis Lee Jaques painted for the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church (Mahtomedi, MN) in 1964. When it was first painted, the panel was sponsored by a member or members of the Wenger family.
