Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
NOTE: In some ways, I am a historian born again as a social scientist. A number of years ago in collaboration with Caius Dobrescu I published this article, which alongside my Romanian language book The Mind Boyars, is the fruit of my…
Dorothea Lange is a wonderful classic photographer just as talented as Ansel Adams. She criss crossed the United States during the 1930s documenting the poverty of the Depression in the rural South and California. Her migrant pictures are the visual companion of Steinbeck’s Fruits…
April 15 is the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage in 1912. The wreck of the ship was found in two pieces, the bow and the stern, by Ballard in 1985, who released the precise coordinates of…
A P-51 Mustang WWII plane nicknamed “Galloping Ghost” piloted by Jimmy Leeward (74) crashed in the stands of an air show at Reno-Stead airport, Nevada on September 16, 2011. There were 11 known dead and over 50 wounded. Reno Nevada Ari Crash…
“News” from The Associated Press via Report: Students don’t know much about US history.
With the recently passed April 14 anniversary of the Fort Sumter occupation by the Confederates we have entered a period of four years of remembering the 150th anniversary of the many and bloody Civil War battles. The memory of the 600,000 dead…
Cover via Amazon The Center for New Media and History at George Mason University announced last month the launch of a new Word Press extension, Anthologize, which will bring academic print and online publishing together. The idea is quite simple. Publish a…
Mosul image via Wikipedia The Iraq War, now in it’s sixth year, has produced its own literature. Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his…
A most powerful medium, of unknown abode and origin, summoned through dark arts the spirit of the Evil One himself, the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, to ponder on iPad’s fate. This is what he had to say: Related articles by Zemanta The Meme…
Jay Nordlinger, from National Review strongly recommends “Digital Barbarism” manifesto inspired by Churchill’s motto “I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.” In Helprin’s own words “What follows is an affirmation of human nature versus that…
Map of Omaha Beach German fortifications (blue dropets) laid over the American operational map for June 6, 1944 (misaligned due to Google Maps limitations). Clicking the button “Google Earth” will show the 3d Model of the German fortifications and will correctly align…
The gWiki technology is featured today at the School of Informatics, IUPUI, in Indianapolis as part of a preconference tour organized by Museums and the Web conference. The gWiki technology is at the heart of the Visible Past project that I have…
Slideshare presentation of Visible Past. Visible Past is a web-based knowledge creation and storage environment that is aware of a user's spatial location and which delivers information on the fly, to that location, based on the user needs connected to that location.…
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