International Conference
Archives of the Present: from Traditional to Digital Documents
Sources for a History of Contemporary Social Movements
Milan, 2-3 December 2004
Entrance to the conference sessions is free.
Download the program of the conference at http://www.feltrinelli.it/Fondazione/donwload/invitofeltrinelli.pdf.
Book Presentation:
"IL CENTRO-SINISTRA E LA RIFORMA DELLA SCUOLA MEDIA"
Firenze, 3 dicembre 2004, ore 9.30
Casa Lapi - ex Palazzo Coppi
via Michelangelo Buonarroti, 13
In occasione della presentazione del volume Il centro-sinistra e la riforma della scuola media (1962) di Massimo BALDACCI, Franco CAMBI, Carlo G. LACAITA, Maurizio DEGL'INNOCENTI, Casa editrice Lacaita 2004, Collana "Strumenti e Fonti".
Sixth European Social Science History Conference
RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-25 March 2006
The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.
The Samuel Gompers Papers project invites you to visit our new and improved website at www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/index.htm.
In the true Gompers' fashion of "more, more, more" it offers more documents, more information, and more opportunities for students and teachers to use primary documents in the classroom.
Highlights include
Ursula Langkau-Alex
Deutsche Volksfront 1932-1939: Zwischen Berlin, Paris, Prag und Moskau
Erster Band: Vorgeschichte und Gründung des Ausschusses zur Vorbereitung einer deutschen Volksfront
2004. XIX, 358 S. - 150 x 240 mm, Gb, €39,80, ISBN 3-05-004031-9
'Sisters are doing it for themselves': Women and Informal Port Economies
A two-day conference to be held jointly at the School of History, University of Liverpool, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, 24th and 25th June 2005.
Keynote speakers: Dr Tapio Bergholm, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu, Finland and Dr Trevor Burnard, Sussex University, UK.
A new book on the Profintern, just published in Germany and therefore, unfortunately for many readers, in German. Nevertheless, the bibliographical data are as follows:
Reiner Tosstorff, Profintern. Die Rote Gewerkschaftsinternationale 1920-1937, Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2004, 791 pp, ISBN 3-506-71793-6.
Gregory J. Downey, Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology and Geography, 1850-1950. New York: Routledge, 2002. xiii + 242 pp. $95.95 (cloth), ISBN: 0-415-93108-8; $25.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-415-93109-6.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Tomas Nonnenmacher, Department of Economics, Allegheny College. Published by EH.NET (November 2004).
University of Leeds Centre for Heritage Research in collaboration with the National Coal Mining Museum of England and YorkshireMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council
SEMINAR: COAL-MINING AND HERITAGE - TWENTY YEARS ON
Friday 26 November 2004
2.30 - 6.00pm
Venue: National Coal-mining Museum
New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH
The Program in Early American Economy and Society Jointly with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies invites you to its 2004-2005 seminar series:
Brian Luskey, PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellow
Manliness and Respectability: White-Collar Workers in Antebellum America
Friday, November 19, 2004, 3 to 5 p.m.
Followed by a reception
Location:
The Library Company of Philadelphia
1314 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA
