Computer Diary #1

Chrome Book

  • No changes made to chromebook
  • Have ssh setup on chromebook for main sites hosted in dream host. Need to document the ssh process on chromebook at some point.

Raspberry Pi

  • Set up Pi with rabarian os (flavor of linuix) on 64 gb micro sd card. Installed no software beside built in recommendations. 
  • Setup VNC on machine to remote in from all other devices

Mac Air

  • no updates in the last week
  • MAMP no longer functions appropriately, should troubleshoot
  • Filezilla is available to ssh into dreamhost sites

Notes: “The Public Sphere”

Jürgen Habermas, “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article,” New German Critique No. 3 (Autumn 1974), pp. 49-55

Summary

Discussion of the idea of the public sphere and what it is.

Notes

Note: Speaking for the Enslaved p 21 – 48

Antoinette T. Jackson, Speaking for the Enslaved: Heritage Interpretation at Antebellum Plantation Sites (Left Coast Press, 2012), 21-48.

Summary

The section of this book that i read deals with various definition of heritage, cultural heritage management, etc. It references Trouillot and cultural heritage inventories.

Notes

Notes: “Feasting on Lowell”

Cathy Stanton, “Feasting on Lowell: Authority and Accommodation in Lowell’s New Cultural Economy,” in The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), 185-228.

Summary

Stanton discusses the issues how various cultural identities, including ethnicity and outsider status, play into the issues surrounding a public history event in Lowell Mass. The event eventually became “polite, safe, predictable”.1

Notes

  1. Stanton, 186.

Notes: Southern Comfort Levels: Race, Heritage Tourism and the Civil War

“Southern Comfort Levels: Race, Heritage Tourism and the Civil War in Richmond,” Marie Tyler – McGraw in Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, ed. James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton (The New Press, 2006), 151-168.

Annotated PDF

Summary

Deals with issues of race and memory in Richmond, VA specifically over various commemorative activities and public history events.

Notes

Notes: Beyond Preservation

Hurley, Andrew. Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities (Temple University Press, 2010)

Summary

Book read for Hist 7040 during fall 2017. Discussion of how preservation has been approached in urban environments. Brief discussion about the origins of the preservation movement. Discussions of shared authority and the “usable”past.

Notes

 

Blog Post Archives Privacy Black Lives Matter

Summary

As the black lives matters protest were getting started, I made some note for a short blog post that I wrote. I was think about the movement and how archival literature had dealt with social justice. I thought about the following ideas.

  • Access
  • Collecting/Acquisition
  • Appraisal

Notes

11/20 Blog Post Archives, Privacy, Black Lives Matter

Output

Here’s what I finally created from this though exercise in my notebook.

Blog Post: Archives and Current Events: Social Movements, Archival Access and Collecting

Clyde Keeler Overview Initial Research

Overview Keeler and Eugenics

Bio from American National Biography

  • Clyde Keeler was involved with writing a report on Eugenics and Sterilization for the American Neurological Association entitled Eugenical Sterilization (citation below) According him the Eugenic and sterilization study he was involved in suggested that there was a “paucity of accurate knowledge”. The study recommended further research according to Keeler in his Autobiography (Keeler, 93)
  • EUGENICAL STERILIZATION. By the Committee of the American Neurological. Association, A Myerson, Chairman. New York Macmillan, 1933 Pp 21
  • A review (citation below) of this work praised what sounds like the literature review found in the work, but chastised the group for focusing on what it called older research.￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼ ￼
  • Landis, Carney. 1938. “Review of ‘Eugenical Sterilization’.” The Journal Of Abnormal And Social Psychology 33, no. 3: 420-421. PsycARTICLES, EBSCOhost (accessed September 12, 2014).
  • Another review explains the points of the work much better, and I think this gets a Keeler’s opinion on Eugenics. Of course reading the entire book would be best, but I can’t quickly get a copy of it. E. B. Reuter wrote: “The general position reached by the committee is to the effect that the present knowledge of human genetics is not such as to justify any thorough going eugenic program of sterilization.” further is it says “law should be voluntary rather than compulsory, free of group or class distinctions, and apply only to select case of” and the review list several hereditary disease including “feeble-mindness of familial type”, schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis, and epilepsy.
  • Eugenical Sterilization. by Abraham Myerson; James B. Ayer; Tracy J. Putnam; Clyde E. Keeler; Leo Alexander Review by: E. B. Reuter American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Nov., 1937), p. 510 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2768661

Opinion: Taken together this suggests, Keeler was actually using science to go against the movement among states to enact sweep sterilization legislation. You can’t say he didn’t support sterilization, but that support was extremely conditional. It’s telling that the group reference “group or class distinction”, which could be taken to mean race or ethnicity which was directly related to the growing German Eugenic movement.

Keeler’s Visit to Germany

  • From War Against the Weak “Clyde Keeler, a Harvard Medical School researcher at Lucien Howe’s laboratory, visited Verschuer’s swastika- bedecked institute at the end of 1938. There he was able to see the center’s anti-Jewish program and its devotion to Aryan purity. Upon his return to the United States, Keeler gave fellow eugenicists a glow- ing report. On February 28, 1939, Danforth of Stanford wrote Verschuer to applaud him, adding that Keeler “thinks that you have by all means the best equipped and most effective establishment of the sort that he has seen anywhere. May I extend my congratulations and ex- press the hope that your group will long continue to put out the same excellent work that has already lent it distinction.”
  • Letter, C.H. Danforth to Otmar von Verschuer, 28 February 1939: Universitätsarchiv Münster: Nachlass Verschuer Nr. 4.
    – Letter is in the archives for the University of Munster. Letter
    • Cannot view this record online beyond the finding aid, but it’s telling Keller never mentions Danforth in his writings about the time and the Howe Laboratory. Also this letter is not from Keeler, but Danforth. The rest of Danforth’s writing to Verschuer appear to be glowing and fawning, but without read- ing one nothing is certain.
  • Keeler was in Europe in 1938 on a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was also a Reserve Officer(Keeler, 152)
  • During this fellowship he visited Genetics labs in the UK, US and included stops in Russia, London, and Germany. (Keeler 149, 119)
  •  Keeler doesn’t mentioning visiting Verschuer’s Institute of Hereditary Biology in his book only his connection the Agricultural University of Berlin, but it’s very likely he would have if he was making a tour of all Genetic Labs in Europe. Keeler’s only note sugguest he was in Germany when the Sudetenland was annexed, and promptly left at the suggestion of the American Consulate.(1953)
    Opinion: Keeler’s visit to Verschuer’s lab as presented in the War Against the Weak is a second hand account. We have no idea what exactly Keeler thought of this lab.

Keeler’s Dismissal from GSCW

  • Keeler notes that he seems to have had problems with former president Lee, and he was essentially pushed out of the university, had his tenure revoked, and received a temporary and terminal contract in 1961 for teaching Chemistry. (keeler 199 – 200)

Opinion: Research would have to be done to substantiate this claim, but it would probably mean a great deal in spirit at least if we acknowledge Keeler’s influence on campus

Extra Information

reference

According to the book From a Race of Masters to a Master Race: 1948 to 1848, the main purpose of the “Eugenical Sterilization” books was intended as a taken down of the eugenics that existed in the US and the rest of the world, specifically to attack what was going on in Nazis Germany. One of the author’s of that report was actually the scientist Leo Alexander, who incidental was at the Nuremberg Trials as consultant for the prosecution. Along Abraham Meyerson, who was actually actively fighting the ideas promoted by C.H. Danforth who is the one who included Keeler in his letter to Germany. (Keeler actually discusses Myerson in his Autobiography). This work further cited others that argue that this was the first scientific work that actively tried to counter act the Eugenics movement as it was in the United States. One going as far as to say that it would become “one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive rebuttals of the claims by proponents of Eugenics” (107)

Further study of Keeler’s autobiography shows that when this letter that CH Danforth wrote to Germany would have been composed, Keeler was facing a hostile environment at the Howe and Harvard due to the administration not favoring his research in genetics, and he resigned that year.
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