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My Mother’s Quilts is a thoughtfully written and planned out book. Ramona Richards has designed a unique project. Creating a masterpiece that interweaves familial stories of yester-year with photos of lovely quilts and short snippets of the message and meaning behind each.
In doing so, we see a profile of a woman’s life journey and that of her ancestors. We join her on a life-time adventure as she provides glimpses into the “lost-art” of quilt making, along with lessons on love – heritage – wisdom and faith. Readers are provided with “Prayer Starters” to aid in their walk with getting closer to Jesus.
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Ramona Richards is an award-winning editor, speaker, author of nine books, and a frequent contributor to devotional collections. An avid live music fan, Ramona loves Nashville, which she’s called home since she was ten. Sensing her mother was near the end of her life, Ramona documented her mother’s stories and lessons behind each family quilt. These stories form the devotions in My Mother’s Quilts. Find out more about Ramona and her books by visiting her online at ramonarichards.com.
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Review: “Esther: The Belle of Patience” from the Bible Belles Series.
Esther The Belle of Patience is a well written, shorter version of the Book of Esther.
This book takes you on the journey of a young girl who loves soccer, but a teammate tries to be the star of the team and never passes the ball. The soccer player tries to approach her coach about it but the coach is too busy to talk. The girl’s guardian angel appears and takes her to see the story of Esther. As she watches, she realizes that you have to try to have patience with God and people, no matter what. Esther has patience with God when she prays to God, for her husband, the King, might destroy her people (the Jews). Esther and the young girl both learn to have patience.
Bible Belles’ The Adventure of Rooney Cruz is an original children’s series that presents real life heroes like never before. The series highlights five superhero women of the Bible: Hannah, Esther, Abigail, Ruth and Deborah.
We’re setting out to present women in the Bible in a way that has never been done before. We want girls to connect with them and find out what being truly beautiful is all about. We want girls to remember their names, their stories, and how special they are.
Esther the Belle of Patience is a well written, shorter version of The Book of Esther.
Meet Rooney Cruz, a young girl who loves soccer. There’s just one problem, she has a fellow teammate that tries to be the star of the team and never passes the ball. Rooney tries to approach her coach for help, but he coach is too busy to talk.
Rooney’s guardian angel appears and takes her on a personal journey to witness the story of Esther. As she watches, she realizes that you have to try to have patience with God and people, no matter what.
Esther learns that she needs to focus on praying to God because her husband,the King, might destroy her people, the Jews! The fate of her people is at stake.
In the end, Esther and the young girl both learn the valuable lesson of what patience is!
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We received a copy of the book The League and The Lantern by Brian Wells. My daughter read the book and this is her review.
You would think Jake Herndon was an ordinary boy. But his sort of ordinary life ends one night during a “back – to –school” sleepover at a museum. It all starts when he plays “time to be a man” and he is late for the back to school sleepover at the Museum of Science and Industry. Here he meets T.J. McDonald and Lucy Garcia (a girl that moved from Nepal to the States that speaks English) and the three don’t really become friends at first.
Later, after they start a scavenger hunt, when Jake is in the mine shaft under the museum looking for clues, he notices that there is something wrong. The tiny light that lights up the mine shaft starts quivering; he hears someone coming and then WHAM! Blackout. A short while after Jake, T.J., and Lucy go on a wild adventure learning about each other, Jake’s mysterious family history, and facts about history itself.
It’s this reviewers opinion that if you liked Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, and other titles by Rick Riordan, yet you are looking for something that is a little more fact than fantasy, I definitely suggest this book. Rick Riordan has been my favorite author for years, but look out Percy Jackson fans. A new best-selling author is rising to the top, and you will love Brian Wells new book series, The League and the Lantern!
About Author: Brian Wells
A concerned dad who couldn’t find quality entertainment for his kids. He has worked and produced 15 TV movies for the major networks, and this is his book debut.
The League and the Lantern is the first book in a new adventure series for middle-school readers. It all starts when a dangerous organization invades Jake Herndon’s seventh-grade sleepover. He escapes along with two new classmates, Lucy and TJ, only to face a 48-hour fight for survival on the streets of Chicago. The kids unravel a mystery dating back to the Civil War, and an incredible secret about Jake’s family. Along the way they learn unexpected lessons about courage, family and friendship.
• Inspires reading – Adventure series your kids will want to read. • Educational Value – 140 key vocabulary words hidden throughout the story, historic sites are part of the setting. • Moral Value – Lessons in family, friendship, mercy and compassion. Lead characters are friends who are different races. • Help Kids – Operates on a buy one – give one campaign to get books into the hands of kids who cannot afford their own copies.
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Singer and Song Writer, Natalie Grant has written two books with her daughters called, “Glimmer Girls.”
My daughter volunteered to read them and in return for her complimentary copies, she wrote a review. She is an avid reader and loves to write, so this is her first foray into book review and promotion.
As part of this review and blog post #FlyBy promotions is offering one of my readers the 2 book set by mail! Please leave a comment on this blog post and let me know that you’d like to enter the giveaway!
Glimmer Girls was a really good series!
In London Art Chase not only do twins Maddie, Mia, and their little sister Lulu learn about history but they also learn about God and how to have a relationship with Him.
Also, in that same book Maddie learns how to be brave and bold like her sister, Mia. So, in the book Maddie, Mia, and Lulu go to London on tour with their mom Gloria Glimmer, who is a famous singer.
While visiting London they go to an art museum with their nanny, Ms. Julia and discover that a thief is at large, or not? Despite the odds against them, the girls go chasing this “thief” all over London till they find him going into a National Archives building; which they find strange because archives are designed to protect art, not to steal it!
Later they learn that the so called “thief” is Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes is the head archivist and he says that anybody who worked there wouldn’t steal anything.
Yet, later on, when Mia and Lulu are taking a nap, Maddie sneaks out and finds out that the real art thief was Aria, an employee at the archivist building.
“A Dolphin Wish” has a similar plot but Mia has to find out who’s letting animals out of their habitats at the adventure park. I will say that the conclusion has an ending that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Read the book to find out what happens to the animals and if Mia can figure out whom the culprit is!
This promotion is a for a two-book fiction series for 9-12 year old girls from award winning singer Natalie Grant.
Grant says: “GlimmerGirlsis a fiction series that I have created with my daughters. The story-line is about three girls who go on tour with their singing mom. I have no idea where I came up with that plot! It’s fun for my little girls to help with the content because they actually live that life. Glimmer is the last name of the family, but it also has a special meaning. It is a light that is never extinguished. Sometimes it may glimmer a little bit brighter, sometimes it may glimmer a little bit dimmer, but it never goes out. I felt like that was such a perfect description for all of us. We all have a light on the inside and depending on the day, sometimes it’s bright and sometimes it’s dim. That is the message I wanted girls to get from this book. You don’t always have to be shining bright, some days are going to be more difficult than others, but Jesus has put a light in you that will never go out.”
I’ve wanted to write a book for decades, I’ve been reading for longer. Sometimes I think I started reading before I could walk. All that aside, I’ve learned that once you become obsessive about reading it’s hard to not pick up a knack for writing.
But Writing is hard work, or at least writing well feels like hard work. I wish it felt as easy as reading a book. But for me, it’s not.
I’ve been told I’m speedy reader. Maybe. But it’s just the way I work. When I have to slow down to read a book it just frustrates the living daylights out of me. So you can bet that if I find a GOOD book I’m gonna want to share it.
I’ve read a number of amazing books the last 6months but there are two I’m going to mention now. The first title I finished this year was “The Harbinger” by Jonathan Cahn. I’m not gonna say anything more about it other than it was wonderful. It is a 5 star book. But that’s just me. It struck a chord.
The other book I just read is Freedom Fight by W. Franklin Lattimore. I gotta tell you – this may be a debut book for Frank but his topic (in my opinion) is so worth your reading time and investment. The characters are compelling and his story and plot spine tingling. He masterfully tackles the delicate topic of spiritual warfare…I couldn’t put the book down and I wasn’t a happy camper when I had to. The ending kept me locked and left me ready for his follow up. Frank takes us into the complex world of the “Otherealm,” a world you have to READ about to appreciate.
I haven’t written my book yet but I want to write suspense/adventure. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a spine tingling, on the edge of your seat roller coast ride – Freedom Fight will fit the bill!
Whether you are writing a book, trying to finish your degree, waiting for a job promotion or tackling a monumental report…remember: It’s only a mountain – you can climb it…don’t let anyone tell you otherwise!


Read about Hamilton through the guy himself. Study original documents through the period of time to higher Hamilton that is understand and other forefathers. Learn their real words to grasp their tips, ideals, battles, and viewpoints.
Alexander Hamilton ended up being the essential writer that is prolific of the Founding Fathers, composing over 22,000 pages of general public papers. Numerous efforts were built to digitize Hamilton’s writings. Several of their writings, such as for instance their efforts towards the Federalist Papers, are incredibly well-known. Other papers may also be celebrated but few individuals are mindful that Hamilton authored them. This collection includes a variety of documents from influential state documents to letters that are personal.
Additionally have a look at the initial Document Database under Hamilton’s America, which include other papers that are important the timeframe.
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Newburgh Conspiracy Correspondence with George WashingtonCollection of letters between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington between February-May, 1783.
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The Federalist PapersFrom the Library of CongressOriginally titled “The Federalist: an accumulation Essays and only this new Constitution,” The Federlist Papers are now an accumulation of 85 essays published in ny magazines from October 1787 to August 1788. Alexander Hamilton conceived the concept, arranged at no cost publishing and publishing, and secured other authors to add essays. Though written anonymously beneath the pseudomyn “Publius,” 51 of this essays are related to Alexander Hamilton, 26 to James Madison, 5 to John Jay, and 3 as being a collaboration between Hamilton and Madison. 1
Annapolis Convention ResolutionThe Annapolis Convention (held in Annapolis, Maryland) convened on September 11, 1786, to go over difficulties with trade, business and navigation access between your states. Those present realized that the lack of a quorum prevented any real decision-making because only 12 delegates from 5 states participated in the convention. Alternatively, Alexander Hamilton penned and introduced an answer “calling for the convening of the czechoslovakian women special meeting to amend the poor Articles of Confederation for several severe defects.” 2 The quality ended up being accepted unanimously on September 14, 1786 and ended up being the state call for the Constitutional Convention – also detailing the spot (Philadelphia) plus the date (the next Monday of might, 1787) for the meeting that occurs.
The 2nd Report in the Further Provision essential for Establishing Public Credit Submitted to Congress on December 13, 1790, this report mostly contains a few excise income tax proposals. When you look at the report, Hamilton determines the total financial obligation that the government will quickly owe. He additionally lists recommendations to begin paying off your debt, including a step-by-step set of duties and taxes, specially on “spirits.”
Avalon Project Documents about Alexander Hamilton
|Hamilton’s Personal Notes through the Constitutional Convention (1787)|
|Hamilton’s Arrange delivered to the Constitutional Convention (1787) various text versions|
|Hamilton’s advice regarding the Constitutionality of this Bank for the united states of america (1791)|
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With Historians Dr. Charles Dew and Dr. Ty Seidule
Moderated by WCSU Psychology Professor Dr. Daniel Barrett
The Mark Twain Library and the Redding League of Women Voters are proud to present the second installment of our series “Conversations: Truth, Myth & Democracy.” Dr. Ty Seidule of Hamilton College and Dr. Charles Dew of Williams College will be in conversation on Thursday, April 1st @ 7:30pm, moderated by Western Connecticut State University’s Dr. Daniel Barrett.
This virtual discussion is between two Civil War historians who grew up in the South and whose research took them both to some very personal revelations about their own beliefs. Those revelations are the subject of their books and of our conversation. It follows the discussion presented on March 4th between Dr. Jelani Cobb and Dr. Jason Stanley which explored how the country and the international community arrived at a place where so few share an understanding of what is fact and what is not. The Conversations program is a grassroots effort that continues to examine the underlying meaning of our democracy and how democracy matters even when we have very different ideas about what it should look like.
“That first conversation proved so engaging and full of friendly yet insightful banter about a difficult topic,” said Mark Twain Library Adult Program Coordinator Elaine Sanders. “We are really looking forward to continuing the conversation by hearing the personal stories from these two scholars of American history.”
At a time when American democracy has been challenged by the questioning of truth and the fostering of myth, this program is a local community effort devoted to exploring how caring citizens from disparate groups can find common ground through informed dialogue and civil discourse. In part two of our ongoing conversation we hope to learn from Drs. Seidule and Dew about their own journeys and discuss how as a country and a community we can carry the conversation forward.
“Two historians, from two different generations, radically changed their world views once they saw that historical facts were at odds with the narratives that had been passed down to them,” said the Redding League of Women Voters’ Mary Ann Carman.
“Each presents his own story with great candor and kindness, and we see this as a healthy way to model how we all can break through our own semantic habits no matter how uncomfortable that may be.”
This series of conversations was inspired in part by the polarization and divisive nature of the last year. The intent is to better understand the world we currently live in by inviting renowned historians, philosophers, social psychologists and journalists to share their knowledge and exchange ideas about what, why and how issues are pulling us so far apart.
“Truth, Myth & Democracy” follows a number of collaborative conversations organized by the Redding League of Women Voters and the Mark Twain Library that began in the Fall of 2019 with a handful of then in-person talks with professor Dew about his memoir. That event inspired a series of programs in 2020 – both live and virtual – from author talks to discussions such as that of Ava Duverny’s powerful documentary “13th.”
This particular program is the second in a series that focuses on addressing the difficult issues of truth telling and myth busting within our democracy by bringing much-needed community conversations to help promote education, informed dialogue and civil discourse. The series is brought to you in association with Easton Public Library, Weston Public Library, Friends of the Weston Public Library, Newtown’s C.H. Booth Library, Ridgefield Library, The League of Women Voters of Weston, The League of Women Voters of Ridgefield and The League of Women Voters of Northern Fairfield County.
Register for this Conversation online at: www.marktwainlibrary.org or call the Library at 203-938-2545 for information.


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The connection to a database is the most used method to create such a website that offers features such as upload, categories and so on. The database stores all the info about the books in this website and makes it easy to find the desired books at any time through using specific php scripts that search about books with specified category or any other details.
The admin of this website chose to keep the large uploaded files (.pdf books files), not in the batadase, but in a specific directory in the hosting server files and keep the link to this files stored in the database. This will give us two important advantages. The first one is that the database will remain light in size. The second one is that we will have all the pdf book files classified in specific folder for each category and can use them later on even if you don't have the database.
The admin of the "Digital Library", Amar Haxhiu. Amar Haxhiu is a student born in Shijak city in Durres districst in Albania in March 2000. As he grew up, with him grew the love for computers and recently the love for programming and web design.
He built up this website to help people in finding books over the web easily and facilitate the searching, uploading and sharing desired books from different people.


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Another year has passed. Year 2017. It was a long and stressful year, with ups and downs.
Being the first article of this year and the first book related article, I will start by expressing my profound gratitude for the people who spent their entire life writing for letting us as a legacy some wonderful works, which get as out from the day to day routine and make us forget about problems.
2017 was for me the year of the learned lessons . I took many decisions more or less good and I set objectives more or less realistic.
From a number of 100 books which I had planned to read, I only managed to read 70. Amongst them were the following:
- “Brooklin girl” – Guillame Musso
- “Foam of the Days” – Boris Vian
- “Le petit prince” – Antoin de Saint-Exupery
- “The Alchemist” – Paulo Coehlio
- “The adventures of Tom Sawyer” – Mark Twain
- “The five love languages” – Gary Chapman
- “The disaster from Chernobyl” – Svetlana Aleksievici
- “Oscar and the Lady in Pink” – Eric-Emmanuel Schimtt
- “Pride and prejudice” – Jane Austen
- “The ultimate introduction to NLP” – Richard Bandler
- “The power of now” – Eckart Tolle
- “A tres metros sobre el cielo” – Federico Moccia
Beside these volumes, I also read a large number of personal development articles, which I learned I don’t like.
From the above volumes, I definitely can say that I liked the most the book called “The disaster from Chernobyl”. It is a sad story about the cruel reality from Chernobyl which started on the 26th of April 1986. It is about lost love and ruined destinies.
Also I enjoyed very much “Brooklyn girl”, a 400 pages novel which I devoured in 2 days. Detective novel action type, it captured my attention although I never thought I would read this kind of book and also like it. It is full of numerous intrigues and surprises, complex characters full of emotions lived at maximum intensity.
The other volumes were also very interesting and capturing, but I had already met with some of them in the years that passed but, from some reason, I felt the need to read them again.
This year I have established the objective to focus more on quality and less on quantity. This means that I will no longer set a number of volumes I want to read, but some names I am interested in.
I started the year with “People of the book” by Geraldine Brooks. An exceptional volume about a Jewish manuscript which leads our steps from the world of middle ages to the second world war and the modern ages. A book full of cruel realities, but also about touching love stories.
The following volumes I would like to read are “Frankenstein” and “The strange case of Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde”. Old stories, but which I haven’t had the chance yet to read when I was a child.
Also there are some other books on my list, less belletristic and more science: “Psychogenic” and “Flowers for Algernon”. They are not books that I necessarily wanted to read, but they are books that were recommended to me, so I will try to honor the recommendation, especially as it is an escape from the comfort zone. Who knows? Maybe I will enjoy them
Now I can only wait to see what 2018 has prepared for me.
Happy New Year! 🙂
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Makers of East London
“Makers of East London captures the energy and spirit of a unique part of the capital. Evocative photography alongside insightful profiles of makers reveals hidden processes behind objects both everyday and exceptional.” Annie Warburton, Crafts Council
Bike builders, violin makers, ceramicists…East London is the creative hub of one of the world’s most dynamic cities and is now seeing a resurgence of craftspeople breathing life back into traditional disciplines. This book takes a tour of their studios and practices to see what it takes to be a maker in a world of mass production. Our largest and most ambitious book yet.
Photography by Charlotte Schreiber, written by Katie Treggiden
336pp, 10.7 x 8 inches, hardback, clothbound, foil embossed.
Charlotte Schreiber grew up in Wiesbaden, Germany, where she studied photography and went on to become a freelance photographer focusing on portraiture and fashion. Telling stories has always been one of Charlotte’s favourite things to do and with photography she feels able to quietly observe the world and to capture what strikes her as most important or beautiful.
Katie Treggiden is a respected design writer. Her blog, 'confessions of a design geek', was awarded Best Interior Design Blog in Great Britain within five months of launch. She founded Fiera, an independent magazine discovering new talent at the world’s design fairs, and also writes for titles such as Dezeen, the Guardian Weekend Magazine and Ideal Home. This is Katie’s second book.
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This is my first time on the Markup mic, so I’ll introduce myself: I’m Michael Reilly, The Markup’s newly installed managing editor. I am not much of a heat person—I tend to melt when it’s really sweltering—but I do love summer. Pool parties, barbecues, long afternoons and balmy nights, and generally being outside: What’s not to love? Oh, and of course, books. Books are good all year round, but there is something special about finally getting that time to relax in your backyard on a warm afternoon or chill at the beach, letting time slow down for just a bit as you get engrossed in a book.
As you might expect, we at The Markup love a good read. Below you will find recommendations for works ranging from fast-paced fiction to deep interrogations of the history of technology. There’s even a graphic novel (which sounds absolutely fascinating). Whether you’re looking to expand your horizons or to be transported during some well-earned downtime, I hope you find something that strikes your fancy.
IBM’s 360 and Early 370 System
By Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer
System/360 is the most important computer you’ve never heard of. This family of mainframes was announced by IBM nearly 60 years ago and ushered in a staggering range of innovative technology still in use today, from virtual machines to processor caches to semiconductor memory. It also provided the industry with dramatic lessons on how tech development could be mismanaged, including by failing to anticipate important consequences of innovation. “IBM’s 360 and Early 370 Systems” provides a masterly and fascinating account of the project and its impact across several decades, drawing on company records and more than 100 interviews.
Markup readers will be particularly struck by how the tech sector keeps forgetting old lessons: Just as today’s programmers must rewrite apps like Twitter for different online contexts, developers used to have to rewrite all their programs for each new model of computer, until System/360 introduced the idea of a software compatibility. And just as users today find their data locked up in different clouds, users in the 1960s struggled to move their files from one machine to another, at least until System/360 pioneered standard storage interfaces and removable disks. Allowing people to truly own their data and software may not be a new idea, but it remains as resonant as ever. — Ryan Tate
The School for Good Mothers
By Jessamine Chan
Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers” imagines a world where the government uses technology to surveil parents and puts them into a Big Brother–like environment to help them become better caretakers. Through the eyes of protagonist Frida Liu, we experience what it’s like to have a governmental agency test and evaluate your moral character with technological means. In this system, Liu hems and haws about her ability to be a good mother and continues to belabor the moment that got her in the situation in the first place—a lapse of judgment during which she left her toddler alone in the house for two hours to have a coffee. The novel allows us to ask important questions: Are we the sum of our worst actions? Can we truly judge someone’s character through metrics and data points?
Science fiction is one of the most visceral ways for us to explore human truth: Take the present moment, observe the issues plaguing society at the time, imagine an exacerbated version of them in the near future. It’s a practice that authors like Octavia E. Butler perfected and that is truly coming out in Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers.” Her novel picks up on something I’ve been really trying to pinpoint in my reporting: What are the psychological pressures exerted on people who are suddenly watched and evaluated by a system that was engineered by humans but has no ethical oversight beyond its construction? We all feel it: the weird pressure we have on Instagram to look our best, the need to perform tasks faster when you know you’re being monitored, the ways in which the imagination of teachers is constrained when they are told their students’ test scores count toward their evaluations. “The School for Good Mothers” examines the inner turmoil these systems create with an emotional exactitude that hardly feels fictional, even if it’s set in a fictional world. — Lam Thuy Vo
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
By Simone Browne
As a reporter and data journalism professor, I often think about how statistics are collected and, perhaps more important, who gets to determine what kind of data is collected. We often believe that people who use scientific methods are exempt from racial bias—a belief that can be described as technochauvinism. But it’s hard to deny that many technological systems that govern our lives are deeply flawed. Who makes the decisions about what data is collected matters a lot. And often it shows in the kind of data that is produced—whether it’s crime data that shows bias against Black and Latino folks or whether it’s an algorithm coming up with scores that predict that Black students are less likely to graduate.
Simone Browne’s “Dark Matters” is an examination of those who observe and those who are observed. It is a dense read largely because it combines theoretical scholarship with important historical documents, but it also feels like one that is important to understanding our data-fied society. Blackness was often surveilled in ways that were oppressive. In one section, for example, Browne explains how “the first large-scale public record of black presence in North America” was the “Book of Negroes,” in which slave owners would describe enslaved Black people largely using their physical markers to “serve as a record in case of claims for compensation.” In another, she explains how lantern laws were introduced to monitor “Black, mixed-race, and indigenous people,” who were seen as security risks. Under those laws, enslaved people were required to carry a candle after dark, and if they failed to do so, they were subject to punishment of a public whipping of no more than 40 lashes.
In an era where data is used to build profiles of everyday people, this book serves as a good reminder that there is a potential for bias and sometimes even violence to be built into the gaze of those who observe. — L.T.V.
By Mattie Lubchansky
“Boys Weekend,” a new graphic novel from Mattie Lubchansky, takes the premise of a bachelor party in a techno-libertarian, seasteading bacchanal where everything is legal (even hunting your own clone for sport) and turns it into a slyly moving meditation on gender identity and capitalism. Lubchansky, an editor at comics magazine The Nib, which sadly just published its final issue, wrote and illustrated the tale of a transfemme artist suffering through a college friend’s bachelor party, simultaneously navigating being the “best man” who is not a man and also the Lovecraftian cult that is effortlessly brainwashing its way through a party island full of dull, misogynistic tech bros.
It’s a speedy read, packed to the brim with subtle visual gags, that builds to an action-packed climax. But the emotional core—a journey toward acceptance, both from the self and by friends from the past—lingers like a hangover. Not “The Hangover,” which is about how the debauched indulgences normative for bachelor parties can be destructive of participants’ personal lives, but a hangover from the realization that those debauched indulgences are merely extensions of a wider culture that can’t help but prioritize consumption over real human connection. — Aaron Sankin
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
By R.F. Kuang
Summer is the time for adventure stories, and what could be more adventurous than a story about … students at an early-19th-century translation institute at Oxford University? O.K., bear with me. “Babel” won the 2022 Nebula Award for best novel on the strength of its gripping plot, clever world-building, and thoughtful exploration of colonialism, assimilation, and academic complicity in the military industrial complex. In an alternate but familiar time line around the 1830s, the British Empire is at the peak of its power thanks to its colonial monopoly on silver inscribing. The magic that powers the Industrial Revolution in this universe relies on bilingual translators inscribing a match-pair of words in two or more languages on a bar of silver. Whatever meaning is lost in translation between those words will manifest magically, and Britain uses this magic to accrue ever more wealth and influence around the world in the name of free trade. Even when “free” means “at gunpoint.”
Amid these swirling mercantile and geopolitical forces, Robin Swift, a young Chinese orphan, is spirited away from Canton and raised to be translator at the rarified Royal Translation Institute at Oxford (aka Babel), where he is highly valued for his Chinese-language ability. He must reconcile his alienation from racist British society and the violent colonialism that his work supports with the relative privilege of his position and his love for the only place that has ever felt like home. As 50 percent magic-school fantasy, 50 percent spy thriller, and 100 percent thought-provoking, “Babel” is a great read on the beach, at the airport, or in a grand Oxford library. — Jesse Woo
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By Heather McGhee
A fascinating look at the broader effects of systemic racism and how it steals prosperity from everyone. In a data-based analysis that essentially says, “This is why we can’t have nice things,” “The Sum of Us” does a deep dive into historical examples of White Americans losing out on opportunities due to the racist policies that were ostensibly for their benefit. From popular public swimming pools closing down completely rather than allowing racial integration to slavery starving Southern states of infrastructure investments that are still missing to this day, author Heather McGhee offers cautionary tales as a path toward a more inclusive and equitable society, emphasizing that true prosperity can only be achieved when we recognize that we all rise or fall together. — Ramsey Isler
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By Richard H. Thaler
Behavioral economics is a fascinating field that sheds light on the often irrational choices humans make with their money, and this book, written by an author who would later win the Nobel Prize in economics, is the perfect way to jump into the topic. With plentiful examples, real-world case studies, and healthy criticism of the assumptions made in traditional economics, “Misbehaving” explains the human patterns that drive markets and will have you questioning the biases and misconceptions behind your own consumer habits. — R.I.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By David Graeber and David Wengrow
History has a lot to teach us about why the modern world is the way it is. But as we know, history is often taught by someone with an agenda. That is certainly true in David Graeber’s and David Wengrow’s mind-blowing book, “The Dawn of Everything.” The agenda they’re pushing, though, is one I (and I suspect a lot of Markup readers) can get behind: They use hard evidence—mostly anthropological and archaeological—to understand how people lived before the rise of the capitalist mega-society we live in today, as well as to examine why we often tend to think our current state of affairs is the product of some kind of inexorable social evolution. (Spoiler: It’s not.)
I won’t lie, this book is a tome—but it takes a bit of work to convincingly refute centuries of received wisdom dating back to Europeans’ contact with the indigenous cultures of North America. One thing I will say is it doesn’t take long to get to the point: Before the tour de force of evidence even begins, Graeber and Wengrow skewer everyone from Steven Pinker to Jean Jacques Rousseau in ways that made my head explode and had me laughing out loud. (I may have a weird sense of humor, but seriously, even the footnotes are funny.)
The overall result is no less stunning. The authors show, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that humans are a fascinatingly creative, complex social species who have organized themselves in a wild array of different social structures over the millennia. It’s only recently that we’ve become stuck in a system of living that assigns outsized power to people who have amassed material wealth or who hold political office. And while we may be under the impression that it’s in our nature to be separated into classes of rulers and those being ruled, it absolutely does not need to be that way. In fact for the vast majority of history, it wasn’t. — Michael Reilly
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By Ilyon Woo
“Nonfiction that reads like fiction” is how this book was first described to me, and it’s absolutely accurate. “Master Slave Husband Wife” tells the real story of a husband and wife who escaped slavery in the 1840s not by any kind of underground railroad but by booking passage on trains and steamboats. Ellen Craft disguised herself as a young White gentleman traveling up the coast to seek medical care, and her husband, William, pretended to be her slave.
The author weaves together so much detail about their journey and makes clear what she knows from historical context and what she knows was certainly a part of Ellen and William’s experience. It’s a gripping read, and one that makes clear the very real danger the two of them constantly faced, even after a successful first leg of their journey. — Sisi Wei
Thanks for reading, and happy reading,
This article has been updated to correct an error in the book title “The School for Good Mothers.”


A direct incarnation of Durga Ma (Divine Mother) and master of Shaktipat Kundalini Yoga*, Durga Ma devoted her life to sadhana (spiritual practice) and Self-Realization. It was her Divine mission, given by Lord Lakulish (the 28th incarnation of Shiva) through her guru, Yogeshwar (Charles Berner) to bring back the worship of the Divine Goddess.
In addition to the initiation of many into this lineage and practice of surrender meditation, she wrote and taught numerous courses on the science of meditation and spirituality, composed music for inducing effortless meditation, and translated ancient yogic scripture into Western English for the modern seeker without sacrificing authenticity. In particular she translated the entirety of the Bhagavad Gita from the perspective of a female, which is unprecedented and sheds a much needed light on one of the most revered yogic texts.
Durga Ma lived the majority of her life as a hermit in seclusion, in devotion to God and her sadhana to such a depth, that it will remain a mystical event for the times. She raised two beautiful daughters in her earlier years, attended University and attained a Masters Degree of Fine Arts in music and education. Her gifts were unconditional to this world and love unbounded beyond the comprehension of human experience. She lived for God, as God, so that we too may seek and find the Reality of our true Selves.
All of the work that Durga Ma completed in her life is what serves as the educational foundation of ISLAdevi and is what is available to our community and members as a way to guide and support anyone on the path of Yoga and Self-Realization in a way that is suited for the individual in a modern Western world.
If you are interested in knowing more about Durga Ma and her life, you may enjoy reading Living The Mysteries – The Spiritual Journey of Durga Ma (available soon in the Dharma Shop). You can access her translations of the Bhagavad Gita and other yogic texts on her blog Mystical Tidbits.
*Shaktipat Kundalini Yoga has gone by many names, Sahaja Yoga, Surrender Meditation, Natural Meditation to name a few.


What's new at the Houston Cole Library for Distance Education Student/Faculty
This website is designed to keep distance education students and faculty members informed about the services and resources that the Library at JSU provides. This site keeps the most popular databases and websites that have been evaluated by our Subject Librarians. In addition, we will update library news, new acquisition frequently.
We hope that this method of communication will help you become aware of and comfortable with what the JSU Library can offer. Furthermore, this site will also serve as a way to keep those distance education students and faculty who may never physically visit the campus informed about any updates to the Library’s services and resources.
We want to make sure the information on the site meets your needs and keeps your interest, so please feel free to contact the Distance Education Librarian at email@example.com or 256-782-5757 if you have any questions, concerns, or comments.
Learning to use the library is an essential life-long learning tool. Both information technologies and library literacy will continue to play a dominant role in your education, career, and world experiences. The JSU Library staff looks forward to serving our students and faculty and providing them with this knowledge.


We are looking for summer help do clean up, ground work and some small maintenance jobs. Looking for up to three individuals. Hours will be 7:30- 3:30 Monday –Friday. If interested see Jason Maples or print off app on the school website and turn them in to Jason or district office.
Girls in grades 2-7 are invited to attend the Lincolnview Youth Softball Camp held at Lincolnview June 6-8. Fliers can be picked up in the elementary or high school office.
Northwest State students need to return to Mrs. Leeth your college textbooks as soon as possible, or you will be charged for the book if not returned.
Student – please be sure you have returned all of your library books and paid your library fines. All books were due on Monday, May 16th.


I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at the University of Oklahoma (OU). My areas of expertise include youth information behavior, youth services in public and school libraries, Learning Labs and Makerspaces as informal learning centers, digital age learning, and LIS higher education. As a recipient of the 2014 IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) Laura Bush 21st Century Program Early Career Development Grant ($354,367), I am currently investigating how students create information during project-based, guided-inquiry STEM learning in different Learning Labs. (Project website: Information Creation in Learning Labs) I teach LIS5193 Books and Materials for Young Adults and LIS5183 Books and Materials for Children at OU SLIS.
The 2014 IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Early Career Development Grant recipient ($354,367)
Faculty Recognition Program for Exceptional Achievements in Research—Prestigious Tier Award by the University of Oklahoma Office of the Vice President for Research (2014)
ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and Technology) SIG USE (Special Interest Group: Information Needs Seeking and Use). A “Certificate of Merit” for an outstanding research poster on human information behavior (2014). Project: Implications and Potential Impacts of Information Behavior Research. Principal investigators: Kyungwon Koh, Ellen L. Rubenstein, and Kelvin White
The 2010 ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) Research Grant Competition Award winner: Online Collaborative Learning in the Web 2.0 Era; Principal investigators: Kyungwon Koh, Sung Jae Park, and Dr. Kathleen Burnett.
Florida State University Dissertation Research Grant Award (Fall 2009): Florida State University.
ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and Technology) SIG USE (Special Interest Group: Information Needs Seeking and Use) PhD Student Travel Award (2010)
2010 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2010)


Helpful Websites for Musicians
Petrucci Music Library (by International Music Score Library Project)
Free downloadable Public Domain Scores. In the U.S., scores published before 1923 are Public Domain.
Choral Public Domain
An invaluable source for Choral Works (Choral literature only)
Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music)
Search and download digitized scores for free.
Sheet Music on the Web (by Sheet Music Consortium)
This is a new project. It links to several important libraries worldwide and has thousands of scores for free download.
The Mutopia Project
Free Domain classical sheet-music for free download, including some that might be ‘hard to get’.
Free Sheet Music Library
Older editions of classical composers. Features the complete Bach Cantatas.
Classical organ music (Bach, Handel, Pachelbel) for free download
Harvard University free digital scores
Free scores and libretti for download, but very little organ music.
02.-MASTER LISTS OF ONLINE RESOURCES FOR THE MUSICIAN:
(For support: Directories of Resources Lists)
Worldwide Internet Music Resources List (from Indiana University)
Finding Scores Online List (from Yale University)
Resources for Music Scholars List (from Harvard University)
Sheet Music Collections Online List (from University of Chicago Library)
Sheet Music Collections Online List (from Duke University)
“National Jukebox” by Library of Congress
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Free downloads or streaming online
Belfer Cylinders Collection (from Syracuse University)
Rapidly growing hymn and hymnal reference site.
Hymn Tune Index
J.S. Bach Biography
Pictures, history, location of 31 original instruments
The complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany as FREE INTERNET DOWNLOADS:
INFORMATION SOURCES REGARDING THE ORGAN:
AGO Boston Chapter Organ Library
Photocopies of Out of Print and Public Domain material are available for a moderate fee. Donations of organ related books, music and literature as well as financial support are encouraged.
Electronic Resources for the Organ (by: Dr. W. Dan Hardin)
Pipe Organ information for children:
American Organ Institute (AOI) from the University of Oklahoma:
General, Technical and biographical information about pipe organs, especially Theater and “Symphonic” organs:
American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO):
The associate Pipe Organ Builders of America (APOBA):
Organ Historical Society (OHS):
The Reed Organ Society (ROS):
American Theater Organ Society (ATOS):
Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society
ORGAN RELATED ONLINE FORUMS AND CHATLISTS:


🎉 Good news, AJ Family…we expect the schools that our AJ Girls and FEP children attend in Ethiopia will start back in the next few weeks after a long closing, due to Covid-19. 🎉
This news comes just in time as our AJ Girls have wrapped up their summer 🌞 📚 reading challenge. Throughout the summer, each of our six girls read two books a month, wrote a short book report, and shared their main takeaway from each book they read. Below we have shared with you a few of the comments from the girls’ most recent book reports. If you have read any of these books, we would love to hear from you in the comments below.
“We have to have unity with diversity.” Guinea Dog
“My understanding of this book is whatever happens in our lives shouldn’t stop us from anything. We should break through and move on.” The Last Time I Was Me.
“These books are all so inspirational. It may not sound like a very good book about a kid being the President, but it is. This book teaches you about responsibility and the successes you can have.” The Kid Who Became President


710 years ago today, Friday October 13, 1307, King of France Philip the IV and Pope Clement V had all possible Knights Templar in France arrested in surprise raids throughout the country. It has been speculated by many, most notably author John Robinson in Born In Blood, that the Knights Templar that escaped (and most did escape) went into hiding. Their need for mutual safety and support, and the system set up to provide it, evolved into what is now Freemasonry.
True or not, it is a fascinating concept. If you have not read Born In Blood, I highly recommend it. There is a copy in our Lodge library (if someone doesn’t have it checked out), and I’m sure it’s available for purchase online. If you borrow the Lodge copy you’ll have to put up with my highlights and notes on the pages.
By the way, John Robinson was not a Freemason when he wrote that book or A Pilgrim’s Path (also in the Lodge library), but became one after completing A Pilgrim’s Path.
My piece of Masonic education for the day.
W∴ Bro. Rick Coles
Past Master, Counselor & Lodge Trustee
Prairie View Masonic Lodge no. 95


- The Reading Agency
- The Reading Adventure game
What we did:
- User experience
- Creative design
- Game development
- Admin database
Engaging young people to read through gamification
The Reading Agency's vision is for a world where everyone is reading their way to a better life.
In 2021, The Reading Agency were keen to support children transitioning from primary to secondary school with their reading. This period is notoriously a difficult time for some young people as many enter their first year of secondary school with very different reading abilities and interest. At that age, their appetite and aptitude for reading is highly correlated with the interest of those around them at home, or at the previous school, so the gap in skills can be significant.
The Reading Agency wanted to create a game for young people between the ages of 11 and 13 who struggle to engage with reading. Designed to be used in schools, libraries and by children at home, it was essential that the game was inclusive and accessible to people who might not have access to the best technology, the fastest internet or those with an overzealous firewall. Yet it needed to be simple, engaging, intuitive and fun.
The premise of the game is to reward children for completing reading activities. The activities are grouped into different topics and each activity asks the child to do something a little different, to engage them in the subject and realise that reading doesn't always mean books! although we love books!
The Reading Adventure is set in a children's room, and for each activity they complete they win coins which they can use to customise their room and make it their own.
Children have high expectations when it comes to games and are quick to share what they like and what they don't, which is great in the discovery and user testing phases. It allows us to see through the eyes of an 11-year-old, and ensures that the game meets their needs and brings them joy.
Through workshops with young people during discovery, we learned the types of games they liked and what they would like to see in the game and in their room, and what they definitely didn't want to see.
We piloted the first iteration of the game with young people and teachers in schools in Islington, who provided invaluable insight and feedback that has been used to build out the next iteration.
"The Reading Adventure provides a new way for young people to engage with the joys of reading at a crucial age where reading for pleasure often drops off. We know how important reading is for confidence and social connection to others, and hope that this game will inspire children in Islington to embrace a life-long reading journey."
The Reading Agency team


The Daily Nebraskan, 21 Feb. 1966.
Karl Shapiro, Poet, Pulitzer Prize 1945.
University of Nebraska faculty 1956-66.
Credits - News item, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE. Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. http://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn96080312/1966-02-21/ed-1/seq-4/ (November 1, 2018). Karl Shapiro, http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/shapiro/ (March 25, 2018).
A Year's Worh of Wonder 1965-1966..
Credits - Book image from a private collection. Steve Abbott, unknown source. Fairyland ISBN-10:0393348903, 2013
Clarence Major, Professor Emeritus, UC Davis.
d. a. levy, publisher, 7 Flowers Press, Marrahwanna Quarterly.
Paracutes front and back cover.
Photo credits - Dagmar http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/ref/collection/press/id/2797 (March 25, 2018). d.a.levy http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/general/id/252/rec/2 (March 27, 2018). Listed at http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/dalevy/lev-b-p.htm (January 19, 2018). "P-97 PARACUTES, Randy Rhody, 1966, 400 Rabbit Press Publication, 5 pages, 125 copies, Mimeo. © Randy Rhody. Cover painting by MaRa. Price is listed as 20 cents." Front and back cover images from a private collection.


Any list of forgiveness Bible verses should point to key passages to study. The goal is not to wrench verses out of context. Rather, we need to identify passages to be studied in context. Below are forgiveness bible verses with suggested links and resources.
9 Forgiveness Passages to Study
- The Joseph Narrative (Genesis 37-50) – Joseph’s amazing response to his brothers (Genesis 45:5-7), and Judah’s repentance, make for a gripping story. Among other things, the Joseph narrative shows how vital the doctrine of providence is to beating bitterness. (See Peter Kreeft’s witty quote on providence in the Joseph narrative).
- Jesus’s 4th Discourse (Matthew 18:1-35) – The Lord begins with an urgent lesson on humility, outlines interpersonal and church discipline, reminds us to forgive one another with the grace given to us and concludes with the parable of the unforgiving servant.


Coming Together Reviews
Barbara Free, M.A.
Editor, Operation Identity Newsletter
(New Mexico's Adoptee Rights and Adoption Search Organization)
well-written, both from a technical point of view and as interesting reading. She begins by
citing various studies and well-known adoption-related literature, interspersed with some
personal memories. Then she tells her life story, about which she has learned many
Shideler discusses her adoptive parents, both the positive aspects and the negative. The
author has quite a sense of humor, and seems like a person one would enjoy knowing in
person. She recounts with both exasperation and humor several incidents after her
adoptive father's death, such as the cemetery saying they could not bury him in the
designated plot without the owner's permission, the owner of the plot being her aunt, who
had been dead many years and was buried in the adjoining plot Later, the bank said they
couldn't take his name off the checking account without his permission, even though he
was dead. Her recounting of these stressful episodes, handling them with some humor,
made her really come alive in the book.
She also recounts going to the adoption agency that had handled her adoption and trying
to get information. She had her birth mother's name, and had told her adoptive parents
she was going to do this. The woman she encountered at the agency was shaming and
gave her no information. She later learned her birth mother had contacted the agency
wanting to be notified if her daughter was searching.
She did search, off and on, which is also fascinating reading, and did finally find her birth
mother, who had also been searching for her for years. After their first reunion, also filled
with crazy incidents such as the airline tickets being written for the wrong airport, in
Tennessee instead of Michigan, she found out who her birth father was and located his
grave, between his wife and another man, with whom she also had children!
Ms. Shideler states that finding her birth father's family was not as satisfying as finding her
birth mother and those siblings, but she is glad to have done it all. She ends the book with
a brief chapter entitled “What next? And hints of a possible second book dealing with
ongoing reunion relationships. If that happens, we'll be more than eager to read it. We
would highly recommend this book and hope it will encourage both adoptees and birth
parents to keep searching!
Mary Sojourner, author of Solace: rituals of loss and desire, writes:
From Shideler’s declaration in the Introduction to her compelling book, “The truth if we
know it, can set us free.” to the second-to-last sentence, “When each side has satisfied
their initial curiosity, had their questions answered – what happens next?”, I was swept
along by her honesty, her wit, her open anger and compassion, to say nothing of her clear
and passionate writing.
I am not an adoptee. I am a birth mother who gave up her son to his natural father. In
that, I share much with other birth parents and many adoptees. I didn’t know that until I
read Coming Together. This is the greatest gift of Shideler’s book – the awareness of how
much so many of us have in common, not just in the painful reality of what it means to be
given up by one’s parents or to give up a child; but in how that experience shapes a
person for a life-time.
Martha Shideler takes us from her birth in 1940 at the Florence Crittenden Home for
Unwed Mothers (just the name of the place gave me chills), through the brutally lonely six
weeks after her birth when she was neither held nor cuddled, to her childhood with her
adoptive parents who had told her she was adopted, but never clarified much of anything
for her about the facts, to her decades-long search through a bureaucracy that seemed
determined to not only thwart her efforts, but shame her.
Shideler encounters enough road-blocks, evasions and down-right mean spiritedness
during her search to stop any but the most ardent seeker of truth. It is to her credit that
her writing and her clarity bring the reader into the search with her. She writes not only for
herself – she discusses how writing Coming Together was, in itself, a form of healing – but
for all adoptees and birth parents, and in hope of illuminating a system that once locked
people away from their true biological heritages.
Her wit shines through. Her anger shines through. Her courage shines through. Coming
Together is more than a memoir of a gutsy woman; it is a guidebook for anyone touched
by adoption in America, anyone who believes, as Martha Shideler does, that the truth,
when known, will set us free.
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World Without AIDS
Steven Ransom and Phillip Day
than any other book, Phillip Day and Stephen Ransom's
A World without AIDS book brought to the public attention
the utter claptrap surrounding the various "AIDS epidemics"
sweeping the World. Following on from the success
of Cancer - Why
we're still dying to know the truth"
and "Health Wars", Day and Ransom's confrontational
style is exactly what is needed to get through the
hype and obfuscation surrounding this most important
of topics. Far from shying away from the difficult
questions, they confront how the whole concept of 'AIDS'
is flawed and based on the most shoddy 'science' as
to be totally unscientific.
Without AIDS is the result of 10 years' research into
this incredible subject. it shows how, with a virtually
unlimited budget, it is fairly easy to pull the wool over
the eyes not just of the public, but of the establishment
as well. AIDS Inc must still be reeling from the
blow of this publication, but it provides not only hope,
but a real solution for those that are suffering needlessly
- most of them as a result of the chemical cocktails they
are taking as AIDS 'treatments'.
you, or someone you know is suffering from 'AIDS' this
book, along with Health
Wars, is a must read.
from World-without-AIDS-book to natural
the Web for other AIDS books
find what you are searching for? Search the web for books
with Google. Just fill in the box with, for
example, "AIDS books" or whatever subject interests
Essential fatty acids


British Concentration Camps|
of the South African War
|The South African War|
These books provide a general introduction to the war and include something on the camps.
J.H. Breytenbach, Die Geskiedenis van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog in Suid-Afrika, 1899-1902, 6 vols (Pretoria, Die Staatsdrukker, 1978-1996)
Erskine Childers (ed), The Times History of the War in South Africa, vol. 5 (London, Sampson Low, Marsten, 1907)
Greg Cuthbertson, Albert Grundlingh and Mary-Lynn Suttie (eds), Writing a Wider War. Rethinking Gender, Race, and Identity in the South African War,1899-1902 (Athens and Cape Town, Ohio University Press and David Philip, 2005)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War. A Two Year's Record, 1899-1902 (London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1901)
M.H. Grant, History of the War in South Africa, 1899–1902, vol. 4 (London, Hurst & Blackett, 1910)
Albert Grundlingh, The Dynamics of Treason. Boer Collaboration in the South African War of 1899-1902 (Pretoria, Protea Boekhuis, 2006)
Albert Grundlingh, Die Hendsoppers en Joiners. Die Rasionaal en Verskynsel van Verraad (Pretoria, HAUM, 1979)
Louis Grundlingh, ‘Another side to warfare: caring for white destitutes during the Anglo-Boer War (October 1899-May1900)’, New Contree, 45, (1999), pp.137-163.
Tabitha Jackson, The Boer War (London, Channel 4 Books, 1999)
Rayne Kruger, Goodbye Dolly Gray. A History of the Boer War (London, New English Library, 1957)
Bill Nasson, The South African War 1899-1902 (London, Arnold, 1999)
Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War (Johannesburg, Jonathan Ball, 1979)
L. March Phillipps, With Rimington (London, Edward Arnold, 1901)
Jan Ploeger, Die Lotgevalle van die Burgerlike Bevolking Gedurende die Ango-Boereoorlog, 1899-1902, 5 vols (Pretoria, Staatsargiefdenis, 1990)
Peter Warwick (ed.), The South African War. The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 (London, Longman, 1980)
H.W. Wilson, After Pretoria: the Guerilla War, vol. 2 (London, The Amalgamated Press, 1902)
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘ “Fools rush in”: Writing a history of the concentration camps of the South African War’, Historia, 55:2, (November 2010), pp. 12-33
Albert Blake, Boereverraaier. Teregstellings tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 2010)
|There is an increasing interest in internment camps in the colonial period, usually established as military strategy during guerrilla war. As yet, little has been published but there are a few items which are useful.|
Arthur M. Davey, ‘The Reconcentrados of Cuba’, Historia, 5(3), (Sept 1960), pp. 193-205
Iain Smith and Andreas Stucki, ‘The colonial development of concentration camps (1895-1908)’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, forthcoming
John L. Tone, War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
S.C. Miller, Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982)
Jonathan Hyslop, ‘The invention of the concentration camp: Cuba, Southern Africa and the Philippines, 1896-1907’, South African Historical Journal, 63(2), June 2011, pp. 251-276.
|The camps have rarely been put into their local context. These works contribute to our wider understanding of the camps.|
J.G. Boje, ‘Winburg’s war. An appraisal of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 as it was experienced by the people of a Free State district’ (PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, 2009).
Diana Cammack, The Rand at War 1899-1902. The Witwatersrand and the Anglo-Boer War (London, James Currey, 1990).
Willem Jacobus Pretorius, ‘Die Britse owerheid en die burgerlike bevolking van Heidelberg, Transvaal, gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog’ (DPhil thesis, University of Pretoria, 2008)
Ian Uys, Heidelbergers of the Boer War (Cape Town, The Author, 1981).
Johan M. Wasserman, ‘The Natal Afrikaner and the Anglo-Boer War’ (PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, 2004)
Johan M. Wasserman, ‘Natal Afrikaners as loyalists during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)’, Natalia, 40, (December 2010), pp. 32-61.
Johan M. Wassermann and Brian Kearney (eds), A Warrior’s Gateway. Durban and the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (Pretoria, Protea Book House, 2002).
L. Wulfsohn, Rustenburg at War: the Story of Rustenburg and its Citizens in the First and Second Anglo-Boer Wars (Rustenburg, The Author, 1987).
John Boje and Fransjohan Pretorius, ‘Of gold and iron: collaborators in the Winburg District’, South African Historical Journal, 63(2), (June 2011), pp. 277-294
|The Concentration Camps|
|General works on the camps.|
Owen Coetzer, Fire in the sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State 1899-1902 (Weltevreden Park, Covos-Day, 2000)
Napier Devitt, The Concentration Camps in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 (Pietermaritzburg, Shuter & Shooter, 1941)
P.A. Dry, ‘Concentration camps during the South African War (1899-1902) with particular reference to the Natal camps 1900-1902’ (BA (Hons) thesis, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1990).
A.C. Martin, The Concentration Camps, 1900-1902: Facts, Figures and Fables (Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1957)
J.C. Otto, Die Konsentrasiekampe (Cape Town, Nasionale Boekhandel, 1954, republished Pretoria, Protea Boekhuis, 2005)
Fransjohan Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 2001)
Fransjohan Pretorius (ed.), Verskroeide Aarde (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 2001)
A.W.G. Raath, Die Boerevrou, 1899-1902, vol. 2 Kampsmarte, (Bloemfontein, Volkskomitee vir die Herdenking van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, 2003)
Eliza Riedi, ‘Teaching empire: British and Dominions women teachers in the South African War concentration camps’, English Historical Review, CXX(489), (2005), pp. 1316-1333
S.B. Spies, Methods of Barbarism? Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics January 1900-May 1902 (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 1977)
S.B. Spies, ‘Women and the war’ in Warwick (ed.), The South African War, pp. 161-185
Ewald Steenkamp, Helkampe (Johannesburg, Voortrekkerpers, 1941)
S.J. Thomson, The Transvaal Burgher Camps (Allahabad, Pioneer Press, 1904)
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘‘The concentration camps of the South African (Anglo-Boer) War, 1899-1902’, History Compass, 6, (2008)
Fransjohan Pretorius, ‘The white concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A debate without end’, Historia, 55:2, (November 2010), pp. 34-49
Ellen Ellis, Teachers for South Africa. New Zealand Women at the South African War Concentration Camps (Paekakariki, Hanorah Books, 2010)
[Stowell Kessler], Swart Konsentrasiekampe tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog (Bloemfontein, Oorlogsmuseum, 1996)
Stowell V. Kessler, ‘The black and coloured concentration camps’ in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 132-153.
Stowell V. Kessler, ‘The black and coloured concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: shifting the paradigm from sole martyrdom to mutual suffering’, Historia, 44(1), (1999), pp. 110-147.
Stowell V. Kessler, The black concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902’ (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003)
J.S. Mohlamme, ‘African refugee camps in the Boer Republics’, in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 110-121.
B.E. Mongalo, and K.J. du Pisani, ‘Victims of a white man's war: blacks in concentration camps during the South African War (1899-1902)’, Historia, 44(1), (1999), pp. 148-82.
Liz Stanley, ‘Black labour and the concentration camp system of the South African War’, Journal for Contemporary History, 28, (2003), pp. 190-213.
Peter Warwick, Black People and the South African War 1899-1902 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 145-162
Peter Warwick, ‘Black people and the war’, in Warwick (ed.), The South African War, pp. 139-160
André Wessels and Annette Wohlberg, ‘Black people and race relations in the largest Anglo-Boer War concentration camp: Merebank, 1901-1902’, New Contree, 49, (2005), pp. 33-47.
|Individual Camp Histories|
Christiaan Frederik Beyers, Korte Geschiedenis van het Konsentrasie-kamp te Pietersburg, Zoutpansberg, en Naamlijst der 650 Vrouwen en Kinderen, aldaar Gestorven . . . (Pretoria, Volkstemdrukkerij, 1908)
J. Dreyer and J.C. Loock, ‘The Allemans and Brandfort camps and cemeteries’ in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 154-167.
Johannes Leon Hattingh, ‘Die Irenekonsentrasiekamp’, Archives Yearbook for South African History, 1, (1967), pp. 72-201.
J.A. Krugell, ‘Die Pietersburgse konsentrasiekamp’, (MA thesis, University of Potchefstroom, 1988).
A.D.L[ückhoff], Woman’s Endurance (Pretoria, Protea Boekhuis, 2006, orig. 1904)
A.W.G. Raath, Die Konsentrasiekamp te Springfontein Gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 (Bloemfontein, Anglo-Boer War Museum, 1991).
A.W.G. Raath, Die Konsentrasiekamp te Vredefortweg Gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 (Bloemfontein, Anglo-Boer War Museum, 1992).
A.W.G. Raath, Vroueleed: die Lotgevalle van die Vroue en Kinders Buite die Konsentrasiekampe 1899-1902 (Bloemfontein, Prisca Uitgewers, 1993).
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘Pietermaritzburg concentration camp’, Natalia, 40, (December 2010), pp. 62-76
Elria Wessels, ‘A cage without bars – the concentration camp in Bloemfontein’ in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 60-85.
J.J. Roodt, ‘Die Port Elizabethse Konsentrasiekamp’, (MA thesis, University of Port Elizabeth, 1990).
M.J. Swart and J.J. Roodt, ‘Die Port Elizabeth konsentrasiekamp, 1899-1902, Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis, 6(2), (1992), pp. 75-85.
Johanna van Warmelo-Brandt, Het Concentratie-Kamp van Iréne (Amsterdam, HAUM, 1905)
Johan M. Wassermann, The Eshowe Concentration and Surrendered Burghers Camp During the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) (Congella, Waterman Publishers, 1999).
Johan M. Wassermann, The Pinetown Concentration Camp during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) (Congella, Waterman Publishers, c.2000).
R. Wiid and Winnie West, Die Oranjerivierkampe Tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 (Pretoria, Protea Boekhuis, 2002)
Annette U. Wohlberg, ‘The Merebank Concentration Camp in Durban, 1901-1902’, (MA thesis, University of the Orange Free State, 2000)
Trudie Venter, Bethulie en die Anglo-Boereoorlog (Bethulie, The Author, 2011)
|Health and Disease in the Camps|
Bruce Fetter and Stowell Kessler, Stowell, ‘Scars from a childhood disease. Measles in the concentration camps during the Boer War’, Social Science History, 20, (1996), pp. 563-611.
Daniel Low-Beer, Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff, ‘Disease and death in the South African War: Changing disease patterns from soldiers to refugees’, Social History of Medicine, 17(2), (Aug 2004), pp. 223-245.
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘British doctors versus Boer women: clash of medical cultures’ in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 178-197
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘Medical history and Afrikaner society in the Boer republics at the end of the nineteenth century’, Kleio, 37, (2005), pp. 5-25
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘A tool for modernisation? The Boer concentration camps of the South African War, 1900-1902’, South African Journal of Science, 106(5/6)
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘Women and disease. The clash of medical cultures in the concentration camps of the South African War’ in Cuthbertson, et al. (eds.), Writing a Wider War, pp. 186-212
Charlotte Searle, A History of the Development of Nursing in South Africa, 1652-1960 (Cape Town, Struik, 1966)
|Emily Hobhouse and the Pro-Boers|
Jennifer Hobhouse Balme (ed.), To Love One's Enemies. The Work and Life of Emily Hobhouse Compiled from Letters and Writings, Newspaper Cuttings and Official Documents (Cobble Hill, Hobhouse Trust, 1994)
Arthur M. Davey, The British Pro-Boers 1877-1902 (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1978).
John Fisher, That Miss Hobhouse (London, Secker & Warburg, 1971).
A. Ruth Fry, Emily Hobhouse: A Memoir (London, Jonathan Cape, 1929).
Hope Hay Hewison, Hedge of Wild Almonds. South Africa, the 'Pro-Boers' & the Quaker Conscience 1890-1910 (Portsmouth, Heinemann, 1989).
Emily H. Hobhouse, Appeal of Miss Hobhouse to Mr Brodrick, (London, South African Conciliation Committee, 1901).
The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell (London, Methuen, 1902)
The Concentration Camps. Mr Brodrick's Concessions and Miss Hobhouse's Comments Upon Them (London, Hobhouse Report Distribution Committee, ).
A Letter to the Committee of the South African Women and Children's Distress Fund (London, Argus, ).
To the Committee of the South African Distress Fund. Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies (London, Frears, )
War Without Glamour; or, Women's War Experiences Written by Themselves, 1899-1902; Historical Records Collected and Translated by Emily Hobhouse (Bloemfontein, Nasionale Pers, 1924)
J.D. Kriel, ‘Emily Hobhouse en die naweë van die Anglo-Boereoorlog. 'n Studie van altruisme en pasifisme’, (PhD thesis, University of the Orange Free State, 1956).
Andrew J. McLeod, ‘Emily Hobhouse: her feet firmly on the ground’ in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 198-225.
B. Roberts, Those Bloody Women. Three Heroines of the Boer War (London, John Murray, 1991)
South African Conciliation Committee, Some Comments on the Report of the Ladies Commission on the Concentration Camps (London, South African Conciliation Committee, ).
Liz Stanley, “A strange thing is memory”: Emily Hobhouse, memory work, moral life and the “concentration system”’, South African Historical Journal, 52, (2005), pp. 60-81
A. Terblanche, Emily Hobhouse (Johannesburg, Afrikaanse Pers, 1948).
Rykie van Reenen (ed.), Emily Hobhouse. Boer War Letters (Cape Town, Human & Rousseau, 1984)
Rykie van Reenen, Heldin uit die Vreemde: die Verhaal van Emily Hobhouse (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1970).
|British Government Blue Books and The Ladies Commission|
|The British Command Papers, commonly known as Blue Books from their covers, are collections of official papers presented to parliament. They contain much invaluable information and are standard reading on the camps, but readers should never forget that they are documents presented by the party in power and are intended to reflect well on their actions. A careful comparison of the camp Blue Books with the original documents demonstrates, however, that they were accurate and full, with remarkably little censorship. As far as they go, they can be used confidently.|
Cd 694, Returns of Numbers of Persons in the Camps of Refuge in South Africa, July 1901 (London, HMSO, 1901).
Cd 789, Further Returns of Numbers of Persons in the Camps of Refuge in South Africa, August, 1901 (London, HMSO, 1901).
Cd 793, Return of Numbers of Persons in the Concentration Camps in South African, September, 1901 (London, HMSO, 1901).
Cd 819, Reports, &c. on the Working of the Refugee Camps (London, HMSO, 1901)
Cd 853, Further Papers Relating to the Working of the Refugee Camps (London, HMSO, 1901).
Cd 893, Report on the Concentration Camps in South Africa, by the Committee of Ladies Appointed by the Secretary of State for War (London, HMSO, 1902)
Cd 902, Further Papers Relating to the Working of the Refugee Camps (London, HMSO, 1902).
Cd 934, Further Papers Relating to the Working of the Refugee Camps in South Africa (London, HMSO, 1902).
Cd 935, Statistics of the Refugee Camps in South Africa, 1902 (London, HMSO, 1902).
Cd 936, Further Papers Relating to the Working of the Refugee Camps in South Africa (London, HMSO, 1902).
Cd 939, Statistics of the Refugee Camps in South Africa (London, HMSO, 1902).
Cd 942, Statistics of the Refugee Camps in South Africa (London, HMSO, 1902).
Cd 979, Returns of Farm Buildings, &c., in Cape Colony and Natal, Destroyed by Boers (London, HMSO, 1902).
Katherine Brereton, ‘Life in the concentration camps’ Pall Mall Magazine, 27, (1902?), pp. 32-45
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, The Concentration Camps in South Africa’, The Westminster Gazette, (4 Jul 1901), pp.1-2.
Elaine Harrison, ‘Women members and witnesses on British Government ad hoc Committees of Inquiry 1850-1930, with special reference to Royal Commissions of Inquiry’ (PhD thesis, London School of Economics & Political Science, 1998)
Paula M. Krebs, Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire. Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
A.W.G. Raath, The British Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902. Reports on the Camps, (Bloemfontein, The War Museum, 1999)
|Unfortunately the research on Boer women is remarkably thin. The works listed below are directly related to the camps.|
Jackie Grobler, ‘Haat, vrees, afsku – boerevroue se houding teenoor swart mense soos weerspieël in dagboeke tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog, 1899-1902, en die nalatenskap daarvan’, Journal for Contemporary History, 27(2), pp. 31-44.
Leandré Hanekom and Elria Wessels, Woman, Thy Name is Valour. An Overview of the Role of Afrikaner and Uitlander-Women and Children inside and outside Anglo Boer War Concentration Camps 1899-1902 (Bloemfontein, Anglo Boer War Museum, 2000)
C. Landman, The Piety of Afrikaner Women: Diaries of Guilt, (Pretoria, University of South Africa, 1994)
Pets Marais, Die Vrou in die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 (Pretoria, JP van der Walt, 1999)
J. Snyman, ‘The politics of memory: vestiges of trauma’, in C. van der Merwe, and R. Wolfswinkel (eds.) Telling Wounds. Narrative, Trauma & Memory – Working though the SA Armed Conflicts of the 20th Century (Stellenbosch, Van Schaik, 2002), pp. 37-47
|War is gendered, with military men dominating civilians, male and female, and the camps were complex gendered environments. This section contains a selection of works related to these issues.|
Helen Bradford, ‘Gentlemen and Boers: Afrikaner nationalism, gender, and colonial warfare in the South African War’, in Cuthbertson et al. (eds.), Writing a Wider War, pp. 37-66
Elsabé Brink, ‘Man-made women: gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder’, in C. Walker (ed.), Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 (Cape Town, David Philip, 1990), pp. 273–292
Lou-Marie Kruger, ‘Gender, community and identity: Women and Afrikaner nationalism in the volksmoeder discourse of Die Boerevrou (1919–1931)’ (MA thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991)
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘The voices of women in the South African War’ South African Historical Journal, 41, (1999), pp. 22-43.
|These are amongst the best-known writings on the concentration camps. Liz Stanley and Helen Dampier have argued that many of the texts are highly politicised and inauthentic. There is much to be said for this viewpoint and the testimonies should not be taken at face value. As a rough rule of thumb, the closer to the war that they were published, the more reliable they are likely to be, both because of the later influence of Afrikaner nationalism and because memory is unreliable. It can also be argued, however, that some these texts are the products of trauma and they can also be considered in relation to other writings of this kind, for instance on the Holocaust or those of the Dutch women in Japanese camps.|
Henrietta Esther Carolina Armstrong, Camp Diary of Henrietta E.C. Armstrong. Experiences of a Boer Nurse in the Irene Concentration Camp, 6 April-11 October 1901, ed by Thariza van Rensburg (Pretoria, HSRC, 1980)
A.M. Badenhorst, Tant' Alie of Transvaal, her Diary, 1880-1902, tr. by E.H. Hobhouse (London, Allen and Unwin, 1923).
A.M. Badenhorst, Tant Alie van Transvaal. Die Dagboek van Alie Badenhorst, tr. by M.E. Rothmann (Cape Town, Nasionale Pers, 1939)
Anna Barry, Ons Japie: Dagboek Gehou Gedurende die Driejarige Oorlog, [1899-1902] (Johannesburg, Afrikaanse Pers, 1960)
Lenie Boshoff-Liebenberg, Moedersmart en Kinderleed, of 18 Maande in die Konsentrasiekampe (Pretoria, Noordelike Drukpers, 1921).
John Bottomley, and C. Luijks (eds) ‘The diary of Susarah Nel and her ordeal in the ‘death camp’ at Mafeking, July 1901-August 1902’, New Contree, 44, (1998), pp. 33-53.
Johanna Brandt see Johanna van Warmelo-Brandt
C.G. Coetzee and M.C.E. van Schoor, Kampkinders 1900-1902 - 'n Gedenkboek (Bloemfontein, Oorlogsmuseum, 1982).
Jacoba Elizabeth de la Rey, Herinneringen van Mevrouw de la Rey, geboren Greeff: Mijne Omzwervingen en Beproevingen gedurende den Oorlog (Amsterdam, Hoveker & Wormser, ).
Jacoba Elizabeth de la Rey, A Woman's Wanderings and Trial during the Anglo-Boer War (London, T Fisher Unwin, 1903).
Bep du Toit, Die Verhaal van Johanna Brandt (Pretoria, Protea Boekhuis, 1999).
M.A. Fischer, Tant Miem se Kampdagboek Mei 1901-Augustus 1902 (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1964).
M.A. Fischer, Kampdagboek, (Mei 1901-Augustus 1902): Een en Ander uit myn Leven en Lyden zedert eka ls Kyrgsgevangenen weggevoerd werdt van Buhrmansvalei oor Ermelo op 31ste Mei 1901 (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1964).
Kezia Hamman (ed.), Dagboek van 'n Bethulie-kampdogter (Bloemfontein, NG Sendingpers, 1965).
S.L. le Clus, Lief en Leed. ‘n Verhaal van Huis- en Kamplewe gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog, van 1899-1902 (Bloemfontein, Nasionale Pers, ).
Margaret Marquard, Letters from a Boer Parsonage. Letters of Margaret Marquard during the Boer War (Cape Town, Purnell, 1967)
After the war Neethling was requested by Louis Botha to go to Europe to speak of what she had seen and found about the experiences of the women in the camps. Her book of testimonies was published originally in English and later translated. Although it is second only to Hobhouse’s works on the women’s stories, it is not without problems. See especially Helen Dampier and Liz Stanley on this subject.
Mag Ons Vergeet? (Cape Town, Nasionale Pers, 1938).
Should We Forget? (Cape Town, HALM, ).
Vergeten? (Cape Town, Nasionale Pers, 1917).
Magdalina Margaritha Postma, (ed.):
Stemme uit die Verlede. 'n Versameling van Beedigde Verklarings van Vrouwe wat Tydens die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog in die Konsentrasiekampe Verkeer het (Pretoria, Voortrekkerpers, 1939).
Stemme Uit die Vrouekampe Gedurende die Tweede Vryheids Oorlog tussen Boer en Brit van 1899 tot 1902 (Potchefstroom, The Author, 1929).
The Lady Who Fought. A Young Woman’s Account of the Anglo-Boer War (Plumstead, Stormberg, 2000)
Met die Boere in die Veld: Die Ervarings van die Skryfster (Cape Town, Nasionale Pers, 1937)
H. Rabie-van der Merwe, Onthou! In die Skaduwee van die Galg (Bloemfontein, Nasionale Pers, 1940).
J.C. Steyn (comp.), Veg en Vlug. Manne en Vroue Vertel hul Ware Verhale uit die Anglo-Boereoorlog (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1999).
Rensche van der Walt, Dagboek van ‘n Bethulie-kampdogter (Bloemfontein, NG Sendingpers, 1965).
Johanna van Helsdingen, Vrouenleed. Persoonlijke Ondervindingen in den Boerenoorlog (Amsterdam, HAUM, 1905).
Johanna van Warmelo-Brandt:
Johanna van Warmelo was one of the six Pretoria volunteers in Irene camp.
Die Kappie Kommando of Boerevrouwen in Geheime Dienst, 2d ed. (Cape Town, Hollandsch-Afrikaansche Uitgevers, 1915)
The Petticoat Commando or Boer Women in Secret Service (London, Mills & Boon, 1913)
The War Diary of Johanna Brandt, ed. by Jackie Grobler (Pretoria, Protea Boekhuis, 2007).
D.H. van Zyl, In die Konsentraisekamp. Jeugherinneringe (Bloemfontein, Nasionale Pers, 1944).
Wilhelmina Riem Vis, Tien Maanden in een ‘Vrouwenkamp’ (Rotterdam, DA Daamen, 1902).
G.B Beak, The Aftermath of War. An Account of the Repatriation of Boers and Natives in the Orange River Colony 1902-1904 (London, Edward Arnold, 1906)
Best Home Industries and Aid Society, Report of the work done by the Boer Home Industries and Aid Society . . . 1906-1908 (London, National Press Agency, n.d.)
|Post-war Commemoration and Memorialisation|
|These works relate to post-war commemoration of the camps, the creation of Afrikaner identity and a camp mythology.|
‘Writing of(f) the women of the National Women’s Monument’ Literator, 20(3), (1999), pp. 35-50.
‘Afrikaner identity: culture, tradition and gender’ Agenda, 13 (1992), pp. 42-56.
‘The National Women’s Monument brochures: a rhetoric of male supremacy’ in Myths Monuments Museums. New Premises? University of the Witwatersrand, History Workshop, 16-18 July 1992.
‘Everyday life in Boer women's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902’ in Barry Godfrey & Graeme Dunstall (eds), Crime and Empire 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context (Cullompton, Willan, 2005), pp. 202-223.
‘Women's testimonies of the concentration camps of the South African War: 1899-1902 and after’, (PhD thesis, University of Newcastle, 2005)
Jenny de Reuck, ‘Social suffering and the politics of pain. Observations on the concentration camps in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902’, English in Africa, 26(2), (Oct 1999), 69-88.
W.I. Direko, L. Changuion, and F. Jacobs, Suffering of War. A Photographic Portrayal of the Suffering in the Anglo-Boer War Emphasising the Universal Elements in All Wars (Bloemfontein, Kraal Publishers, 2003)
Arthur Conan Doyle, African Winter (London, John Murray, 1929)
Michael Godby, ‘Confronting horror: Emily Hobhouse and the concentration camp photographs of the South African War’, Kronos, 32, (Nov .2006), pp. 34-48
Although Grundlingh has not published directly on the camps, his work on the mythologising of the war as a tool in the making of Afrikaner identity in the post-war era is particularly significant in understanding how we think now about the camps:
‘The Anglo-Boer War in 20th century Afrikaner national consciousness’ in Pretorius (ed.), Scorched Earth, pp. 242-63.
‘The National Women’s Monument. The making and mutation of meaning in Afrikaner memory of the South African War’ in Cuthbertson et al. (eds.), Writing a Wider War, pp. 18-36.
‘Politics, principles and problems of a profession: Afrikaner historians and their discipline, c.1920 – c.1965’, Perspectives in Education, 12(1), (1990), pp. 1-19.
‘Reframing remembrance: the politics of the centenary commemoration of the South African War of 1899-1902’ in van der Merwe & Wolfswinkel (eds), Telling Wounds, pp. 21-36.
‘War, wordsmiths and the “volk”: Afrikaans historical writing on the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 and the war in Afrikaner nationalist consciousness, 1902-1990’ in E. Lehmann, and E. Reckwitz, E (eds), Mfecane to Boer War: Versions of South African History. Papers presented at a symposium at the University of Essen, 25-27 April 1990 (Die Blaue Eule), pp. 43-54.
Liz Stanley and Helen Dampier:
‘Aftermaths: post/memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the South African War 1899-1902’, European Review of History, 12(1), (2005), pp. 89-113.
‘Cultural entrepreneurs, proto-nationalism and women’s testimony writings: from the South African War to 1940’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 33(3), (Sept 2007), pp. 501-19.
Mourning Becomes . . . Post/memory, Commemoration and the Concentration Camps of the South African War (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2006)
‘Mourning becomes . . .: the work of feminism in the spaces between lives lived and lives written’, Women's Studies International Forum, 24(1), (2002), pp. 1-17.
‘A “secret history” of local mourning: the South African War and state commemoration’, Sociology in Transition, 33, (2002), pp. 1-22.
‘Women’s South African War testimonies: remembering and forgiving in Should We Forget?’, Tydskrif vir Nederlands en Afrikaans, (2002), pp. 93-118
Elizabeth van Heyningen, ‘Costly mythologies: the concentration camps of the South African War in Afrikaner historiography’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 34(3), (Sept. 2008), pp. 495-513
Acknowledgments: The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust, which is not responsible for the contents of the database. The help of the following research assistants is gratefully acknowledged: Ryna Boshoff, Murray Gorman, Janie Grobler, Marelize Grobler, Luke Humby, Clare O’Reilly Jacomina Roose, Elsa Strydom, Mary van Blerk. Thanks also go to Peter Dennis for the design of the original database and to Dr Iain Smith, co-grantholder.


Along the Erie Canal with the Municipal Seals
of the Cities, Towns and Villages of New York
Compiled by Marvin W. Bubie
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As the first great infrastructure project in a young country, the Erie Canal made New York into The Empire State and transformed the shape of the United States. 200 years after the first shovel of dirt for “Clinton’s Ditch” was moved, municipal seals depicting a canal heritage can still be found on official government letterheads and web sites, on police and fire vehicles, on the walls of municipal chambers, and even in works of art. The seals in this book demonstrate the important role the Erie Canal played in the birth of many of the communities along this iconic waterway, stretching from Buffalo to Albany. For residents, this book is a reminder of the influence that the “Eighth Wonder of the World” has on their lives today. For historians, scholars, casual history buffs and future generations, this book is a visual history of the Erie Canal that provides a concise, illustrated catalog of how the Erie Canal molded each community into what it is today.
But at the time, the influence of the Erie Canal extended across and beyond the borders of New York State, resulting in “canal envy” and a frenzy of canal building across the country. This second edition is revised and expanded and includes not only seals from the Erie Canal, but from other states as well. Further additions include information about other canals in New York, the men who built the Erie Canal, and important inventions that resulted from the improvised engineering during the Canal Era.
About the Author
Marvin Bubie was born and raised in the Capital District, graduating from Averill Park High School and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is retired from General Electric and has lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Virginia. In addition, he spent eighteen months in Germany with the US Army, and has returned to Europe many times visiting Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Germany. Over the years he has collected the seals from various cities, towns, counties, boroughs, and villages in this country, as well as those in Europe. He has published two similar books, On the Trail of Henry Hudson and Our Dutch Heritage Through the Municipal Seals in New York, and Celebrating the American Revolution: Municipal Symbols of a Free Country, and is at work on another book of seals related to railroading heritage.
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Gender, Peace and Security: Women’s Advocacy and Conflict Resolution
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 recognises both war’s adverse effects on women and women’s important contributions to peace and security. Yet despite the resolution being passed unanimously over a decade ago, women are still generally underrepresented in formal peace negotiations and to date only 33 countries worldwide – and only 5 in the Commonwealth – have approved National Action Plans (NAPs) to implement the resolution. Gender, Peace and Security examines women’s role in both conflict and post-conflict reconciliation. It describes how UNSCR 1325 provides support for women in peace-building processes and provides case studies of how it has been implemented in selected countries, including the benefits of NAPs and women’s involvement in their adoption.


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The Pizza Ontology Tutorial, which was written by Manchester University, is the definitive guide to developing Web Ontology Language (OWL) format ontologies using the Protégé ontology editing tool. The Pizza Ontology Tutorial reviews the various features available in OWL and Protégé. In this document, we build on the Pizza ontology tutorial. We introduce the reader to the theory and applications of Partial-area Taxonomies. A Partial-area Taxonomy is an algorithmically derived summary of an ontology. Specifically, a Partial-area Taxonomy represents major groups of structurally and semantically similar classes of an ontology. Partial-area Taxonomies are usually much smaller than the ontologies that they summarize. This guide describes the use of our software tool, the Ontology Abstraction Framework (OAF) Plugin for Protege 5. The guide follows the Manchester Pizza Ontology Tutorial step by step and illustrates how each step of developing the Pizza Ontology is reflected in the Partial-area Taxonomy created from the Pizza Ontology. Images in this guide are screen dumps from the OAF Plugin.