Saturday, December 31, 2011
New Exhibition: I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy, an American Legend is being held at the Library of Congress from August 4, 2011 to January 28, 2012. This site provides an overview of the themes of the exhibition (e.g., "The Cast, Crew, and Set," "Theme Songs") and a gallery of exhibition items. We Still Love Lucy (Information Bulletin, September/October 2011) provides additional information about the exhibition.
Friday, December 30, 2011
New Book: Understanding Medieval Primary Sources
See in particular Katherine L. French's chapter, "Medieval Women's History: Sources and Issues." French covers both descriptive documents (notarial registers, manor records, charters, witness depositions, and coroners' rolls, Episcopal visitation records, financial records of institutions, and household accounts) and prescriptive sources (the Bible, civic codes, guild regulations, monastic rules, sermons, and advice literature). Additional chapters provide different perspectives on relevant sources: wills as primary sources; letters and letter collections; sources for manorial and rural history; medieval urban history; public health in the medieval city; images and objects as sources; and medieval archaeology.
Monday, December 5, 2011
In the News: Children of Cuba Remember Operation Pedro Pan
Operation Pedro Pan was a U.S. government program that brought more than 14,000 Cuban children to the United States from 1960 to 1962.
Children of Cuba Remember Their Flight to America (NPR, Nov. 19, 2011)
In this audio segment, Carmen Valdivia, Jose Azel, and Carlos Eire relate how the experience shaped their lives. The web page for the story includes a photo of Valdivia and other girls at a camp for displaced children in Florida City, and a recent photo of Valdivia holding the visa waiver that she received in 1962.
The Legacy of Pedro Pan (C-SPAN) was a panel discussion at the National Museum of American History (August 14, 2011). Panelists included Jackie Bhabha (Human Rights Program at Harvard) and Pedro Pan participants Emilio Cueto, Eloiza Echazabel, and Maria de los Angeles Torres. Torres is also the author of The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U. S., and the Promise of a Better Future (Beacon Press, 2003).
Related Sources
The Miami Herald maintains a site that features articles and videos about Operation Pedro Pan.
The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami provides access to primary and secondary sources that relate to Cuba and the Cuban diaspora from colonial times to he present. One of the digital collections on the site includes a video interview with Albertina O'Farrill, who used her diplomatic connections as a Cuban ambassador's wife to get children out of Cuba during Operation Pedro Pan.
Conde, Yvonne M. Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children. New York: Routledge, 1999. WorldCat Record with Preview
Stoner, K. Lynn, and Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez. Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2000. WorldCat Record with Preview
Triay, Victor Andres. Fleeing Castro Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. WorldCat Record with Preview
Children of Cuba Remember Their Flight to America (NPR, Nov. 19, 2011)
In this audio segment, Carmen Valdivia, Jose Azel, and Carlos Eire relate how the experience shaped their lives. The web page for the story includes a photo of Valdivia and other girls at a camp for displaced children in Florida City, and a recent photo of Valdivia holding the visa waiver that she received in 1962.
The Legacy of Pedro Pan (C-SPAN) was a panel discussion at the National Museum of American History (August 14, 2011). Panelists included Jackie Bhabha (Human Rights Program at Harvard) and Pedro Pan participants Emilio Cueto, Eloiza Echazabel, and Maria de los Angeles Torres. Torres is also the author of The Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U. S., and the Promise of a Better Future (Beacon Press, 2003).
Related Sources
The Miami Herald maintains a site that features articles and videos about Operation Pedro Pan.
The Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami provides access to primary and secondary sources that relate to Cuba and the Cuban diaspora from colonial times to he present. One of the digital collections on the site includes a video interview with Albertina O'Farrill, who used her diplomatic connections as a Cuban ambassador's wife to get children out of Cuba during Operation Pedro Pan.
Stoner, K. Lynn, and Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez. Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2000. WorldCat Record with Preview
Triay, Victor Andres. Fleeing Castro Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. WorldCat Record with Preview
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