Preserving mummies, preserving heritage: Our responsibility to protect...
Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, widespread looting occurred across archaeological sites and museums in the region. Most notably, the National Museum of Iraq was heavily pillaged and dozens of...
View ArticleNorman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter and World War II in American memory
Sixty-eight years ago today, The Saturday Evening Post published an iconic cover featuring Norman Rockwell’s now famous image of Rosie the Riveter. Rockwell built upon other notions of a fictionalized...
View ArticleOur last chance to record the voices of New Deal workers through oral history
In a recent post for The Berkeley Blog, Professor Robert Reich proposes that the federal government respond to our ongoing recession by initiating a new Works Progress Administration (WPA). Almost...
View ArticleWould Rick Santorum call Rosie the Riveter a snob?
Rick Santorum’s recent criticism of President Obama’s call to make it possible for all Americans to advance their education or training as elitist snobbery makes me wonder what the GOP candidate would...
View ArticleFrom the classroom to the stacks: UC Berkeley’s Library Prize for...
In October of 1948, Life Magazine featured a photographic essay on the University of California. The subtitle of the essay suggests the grandiose aims of the university system at mid-century: “The...
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