Categorization schemes are never neutral and rarely comprehensive, but the question of how to handle them is thornier than one might think. How can we question categories and their confining walls given that those same walls also provide shelter? On the Discomfort of Shedding Ill-Fitting Categories Mar 7, 2022 Ulrike Bialas
Compares two textbooks for schoolchildren in Baden in the late nineteenth century and presents the ideas they conveyed about the US. A Cautionary Tale: Baden’s Late Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Their Portrayal of America Nov 7, 2022 Marie Nella Hoffmann
As Chinese children and youth immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they had to overcome increasing restrictions on their entry. Wendy Rouse describes the knowledge they formed and passed on to succeed. Crossing Borders: Chinese Immigrant Children and the Production of Knowledge Mar 2, 2020 Wendy L. Rouse
Frei discusses the knowledge prospective Jesuit missionaries sought to gain before applying, and knowledge missionaries provided back home. Missionary FAQs: The Migration of Knowledge about and from Early Modern Jesuit Missions Sep 2, 2022 Elisa Frei