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Convent Tabla
Part wall calendar, part database, an early modern tabla found in a Spanish convent museum reveals the role nuns played in the spiritual economy of their community.
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In her courses on 19th-century American slavery, Justene Hill Edwards’s students delve into the lasting impact of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
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SEPTEMBER 2024 | SCRIPT AND SCRIPTURE
Texts are part of the backbone of the historical discipline. Some have been read and reinterpreted for millennia, inspiring art around the globe, as Luke Clossey, Kyle Jackson, and Isaac Schoeber found. Others are handwritten and could be more ephemeral, if we don’t put in the work to learn to read them, as Bonnie J. Morris argues. Scraps of paper can be kept for centuries within a community, as in the “Convent Tabla.” And others are preserved by the essential work of archives, as “The Long Conference” highlighted. But whether you have rediscovered a source or are revisiting a classic, you could uncover something new.
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