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This talk discusses the narrative of Hernando Fontaneda de Escalante, a 16th century former captive and a Creole man born in Cartagena de Indias, who lived for seventeen years among the Calusa Indians of Florida. His account is considered one of the most extensive repositories of information about the Calusa, yet it has received little […]

Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial roster of writers, including a young Jewish editor named Ben Burns, connected the struggle of African Americans for equal rights to Nazi persecution of Jews. […]

Dr. Sullivan is currently project coordinator for the Project for the Implementation o f an Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum in Digital Cultural Mapping at UCLA. She has excavated at the Greco-Roman site of Karanis in the Egyptian Fayoum for the past two seasons as part of the UCLA project at the site. Poster availablehere. For more […]

Abstract: It is well known that the distribution of wh-remnants in sluices, unlike the distribution of wh-phrases in non-elliptical questions, is largely immune to island effects, as illustrated by the contrast below. (1) Irv and someone were dancing together, but I don’t know who. (Ross 1969) (2) * Irv and someone were dancing together, but […]