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Title: Gospel Truth About the Negro Spiritual
Description: Negro spirituals are songs created by the Africans who were captured and brought to the United States to be sold into slavery. This Lecture-Recital was presented by Randye Jones, Soprano & Researcher; assisted by William Tinker, Piano, at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Date Created: 2007
PID: grinnell:63

Title: Just, Open, Plural: Third Reconstruction: Liberalism, Americanism, Madisonianism
Description: Essay arguing that the United States of America requires democratic renewal and that renewal must take the form of a Third Reconstruction with the goal of rebuilding the United States as a just, open, and plural republic.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29699

Title: Loving v. Virginia
Description: In 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously voted to dismantle all state laws prohibiting intermarriage, overriding legal restrictions based on race written in 1883. In this block, created by studio assistant Leina’ala Voss, the first page of the Loving v. Virginia court transcript serves as a partial background on which two rings and a set of keys have been arranged; these objects symbolize the bond of marriage and evoke the feeling of a shared home. To the left of the court transcript the artist has placed a net, surrounded by metal nails, buttons, and fragments of colored flowers. Beneath the netting the words “race mixing is communism” appear as a headline above an image of a white protester, his face concealed behind dark sunglasses. This image is juxtaposed against a photograph which shows laughing children and their parents, innocent and unbothered by the chaos which surrounds them. By placing symbolic objects representative of marriage and domesticity alongside a supreme court document and Loving v. Virginia protest imagery, this block depicts how love itself has become a highly politicized issue defenseless against the noxious gass of racism and hatred. This block also reminds the viewer that even today we must not take our rings and keys, and the people we love, for granted; for there once was a time when even the love we feel for our family was unlawful in the eyes of our constitution.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:25516

Title: Men and Events of Forty Years, Autobiographical reminiscences of an active career from 1850 to 1890
Description: Autobiography of Josiah Bushnell Grinnell for the years from 1850-1890.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:310

Title: On White Eyes
Description: “On White Eyes” explores two moments in American history when societal events collided with new modes of visual representation in ways that forced white Americans to pay more attention to their conceptions of race.
Date Created: 2021
PID: grinnell:29698

Title: Presidential Election Panel
Description: Poster advertising a panel discussion on the 2012 Presidential election held on October 8, 2012, with panelists Barb Trish, Kathie Obradovich, and David Shribman and sponsored by the Rosenfield Program.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5241

Title: Presidential Inauguration, Campus Viewing of the Presidential Inauguration
Description: Poster advertising a campus viewing of the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on January 21, 2013, sponsored by the Rosenfield Program.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:5206

Title: Russian Public Opinion: Mass Perspectives on the United States and China in 2010
Description: This paper considers how the Russian people feel about the world around them and about the two most significant actors in it, the United States and China.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:124

Title: Science Classroom Scene, 1977
Description: A scene from a science laboratory or classroom with three students standing around science equipment. May 1977.
Date Created: 1977
PID: grinnell:12900

Title: Students in Robert Gray's Political Science Seminar, April 1976
Description: Two students in Robert Grey's Political Science Seminar. One student is Scott Beers, class of 1978. Taken April 1976.
Date Created: 1976
PID: grinnell:12903