CUNY Academic Commons | Don MacLeod | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/donmacleod/activity/ Activity feed for Don MacLeod. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 2b4ffa1983c62f6c271168cefc6a2e33 Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1003222/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:40:14 -0400 3766fd9552f72acd0e35ce61dab07957 Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) and Robert Brenner (he/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/831227/ Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:09:35 -0400 ac852c23f133879e8cef66e0a016ecef Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/817909/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 13:59:47 -0500 234db567294eb9e3574ac0dc4e755e33 Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/814107/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:49:31 -0500 a2a4a9f798868d5fdce78fa1759ee46a Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/780572/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 13:18:17 -0400 9e183b03743983e9c219f181365f165c Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) wrote a new post on the site Sources for the New York City Draft Riots (July 1863) https://macleod4.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=14 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:05:29 -0400 3d2ef6fb41bb13eec99677941d2d9ddd Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) created the site Sources for the New York City Draft Riots (July 1863) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/752148/ Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:01:17 -0400 28bf0a350929c57787c32f6336160c22 Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) wrote a new post on the site African-American Victims of the 1863 Draft Riots https://macleod2.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=189 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 02:12:31 -0500 Map of attacks during the week of the riot.

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Covid-19 may have closed the doors on City College’s libraries, but it hasn’t shut down the services

Campus may be all but inaccessible until at least Fall 2021, but the libra […]

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It’s European. It’s reclusive. It’s hella poisonous.

Compare to the size of the adult European recluse spider, above. (To scale.)

You just knew they […]

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Covid-19 may have closed the doors on City College’s libraries, but it hasn’t shut down the services

Campus may be all but inaccessible until at least Fall 2021, but the […]

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Pre-selfie.

There are certain inventions that explode on the scene. The […]

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There is an old saying in politics, usually mis-attributed to Joseph Stalin: “It’s not the vote […]

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Why not just scan everything in the archive? Look what Google did for more than 40 million books forlornly sitting on library shelves throughout the […]

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Il Bambino x 9.

If there is one aspect of American life that cries out for archival preservation, it’s the memory of our sports […]

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Not everyone from the heyday of rock and roll was so burned out that they forgot to keep stuff. The original rockers and rappers, stars and wannabes alike, […]

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Finding your way to useful archives requires more than a map and a democracy of confused opinions.

To locate who minds the archival […]

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Plan #1

One is to digitize some old personal papers, failed attempts at novels, a collection of historic newspapers I have collected (“Man Walks on the Moon”, […]

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]]> 7dcffc32ab654a61a639ac638df91933 Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) created the site Looking Up https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/743108/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:11:22 -0500 80aa381a8d640f4a84cc64bd6ac74c7a Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/743105/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:03:08 -0500 9969e9e3bccb215f18d5d45caefebcde Don MacLeod (He/Him/His/Milord) wrote a new post on the site Looking Up https://donmacleod.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:18:27 -0400 Welcome to my WordPress site for Prof. Gibbons’s class on archives!

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