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The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This final of three volumes concludes the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes essays about Black and Puerto Rican students' experiences; the development of the Black Unity League; the Conklin Hall takeover; the divestment movement against South African apartheid; anti-racism struggles during the 1990s; and the Don Imus controversy and the 2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu.

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This second of a planned three volumes continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes: an introduction to the period studied (from the end of the Civil War through WWII) by Deborah Gray White; a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary; an analysis of African-American life in the City of New Brunswick during the period; and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu

This article challenges the notion of French “influence.” It traces a network of like-minded reformers in France and the Balkans that came together in the early nineteenth century to further popular education. Examining interactions between actors in a cultural, scientific, and political center (France) and their allies on the periphery (in present-day Greece and Romania), the article reassesses these relationships, revealing the extent to which French individuals and organizations depended on such partnerships. Conceiving of joint Franco-Balkan reform agendas as programs of development, it offers a model and a vocabulary for the study of French soft power in post-Napoleonic Europe.

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This article deals with the Greek colonization of ancient Argilos which took place towards the middle of the 7th century B.C., and addresses the question of cohabitation between the Greek colonists and the native Thracian population. A study of the archaeological remains, the literary sources and the development of Greek penetration in the lower region of the Strymon river tends to show that Greeks and Thracians did live together in Argilos, but also in several other sites of this region.

The archaeological fieldwork conducted in Greece in 2010 under of aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece is summarized on the basis of a presentation given by the director at the institute’s annual Open Meeting in Athens, in May 2011. These research activities included excavations (Argilos and Kastro Kallithea), a pedestrian survey (Karpathos), and study seasons (Eastern Boeotia and Southern Euboea). , Les travaux archéologiques menés en Grèce en 2010 sous l’égide de l’Institut canadien en Grèce sont passés en revue dans le cadre d’une présentation donnée par le directeur lors de l’Assemblée publique annuelle, tenue à Athènes en mai 2011. Ces recherches comptaient des fouilles (Argilos et Kastro Kallithéa), une prospection (Karpathos) et des campagnes d’étude (Boétie orientale et Eubée sud).

The archaeological fieldwork conducted in Greece in 2011 under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) is summarized based on the presentation given by the director at the institute’s annual Open Meeting in Athens in May 2012. , Les travaux archéologiques menés en Grèce en 2011 sous l’égide de l’Institut canadien en Grèce sont présenté sur la base d’une allocution donnée par le directeur lors de l’assemblée publique annuelle à Athènes en mai 2012.

The roof tiles and covering joints of Laconian type discovered in an ancient workshop at Thasos between 1985 and 1988 can most likely be dated between the last quarter of the 6th cent. B.C. and the first quarter of the 5th cent. The presence of vase fragments at the site raises the possibility that both tiles and vases were produced in the same shop -- an apparent rarity for this period.

Fourteen papers explore a range of issues relating to prehistoric extraction sites, including ethnography, geochemical signatures, the application of neutron activation analysis, exploitation of erratics, excavation, survey and conservation. Topics include quernstone extraction, use of hammers, stages of extraction, geographical and social contexts, changing social regimes, the ritualised nature of journeys to quarry sites, study of petrofabrics, and the effects of joint and cleavage on quarrying practice. Two contributions are in French with extended summaries in English.

For the last twenty years, a team of Greek and Canadian archaeologists have been excavating Argilos, the earliest known Greek colony in the area of the mouth of the Strymon river. An overview of research on what was one of the four colonies founded by Andrians after the abandonment of Zagora allows discussion of questions related to the origin of the settlers, the choice of location, the foundation date, and the reasons for the settlement. First occupied by Thracians, Argilos was settled by Greeks no later than the mid-7th cent. B. C. Some of these Greeks came from Andros ; however, one should not eliminate the possibility that Argilos may have been a joint venture between Andrians and Chalcidians. Cohabitation between Greeks and Thracians lasted until the mid-6th cent., when it is believed a wave of immigrants arrived, some of whom were from east Greece. Argilos remained affluent until the foundation of Amphipolis in 437, after which it suffered decline. Its capture by Philip II in 357 and the deportation of its inhabitants to Amphipolis put an end to its existence.

This paper utilizes the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of bulk animal bone collagen to better understand animal management practices in Archaic and Classical period Argilos in northern Greece. The results from Argilos are compared with data from other sites in northern Greece to provide new insights into herd management in the region over time. Our results reveal some changes in cattle and pig diets at Argilos between the Archaic and Classical periods. Throughout both periods cattle and caprines exhibit evidence of having consumed C4 vegetation, likely obtained from the nearby salt marshes in the Strymon river delta. This dietary regime is similar to that observed at other north Aegean sites dating back to the Neolithic, suggesting that the long tradition of animal herding in the marshes was an environmentally specific practice in the region.

IN THE SPRING OF 1959, the UN press service and Canada's Department of External Affairs (DEA) announced that the "rivers, forests, cities and industries of western Canada and northwestern United States [would] serve as a laboratory in economic and social development for a new-type training center." (1) The Regional Training Centre for United Nations Fellows at the University of British Columbia would "enable trainees from underdeveloped countries to study and observe activities in fields such as hydroelectric power, water development, mining, forestry, land management, cooperatives, credit unions, social welfare, and public administration." (2) Press reports explained that the "unique international venture," involving the UN, the Canadian government, and UBC would be located in the Pacific Northwest because "in the past 50 years this area has experienced a most remarkable expansion of population and of economic development." (3) Infused with the postwar optimism associated with Canada's economic progress, British Columbia's resource boom, and international development, the announcement simultaneously highlighted and obscured a history and ongoing reality of settler colonialism and, more broadly, the extent to which Canadian participation in development assistance rested upon a foundation of Indigenous dispossession. This article explores how settler colonialism intersected with the UN's training centre at UBC, which is built on the territory of the Musqueam people. It uncovers what the Centre's origins and activities say about understandings of development after 1945, especially the Canadian dimension of this global history. Specifically, it interrogates development's pedagogical dimension. Situating "technical assistance" and efforts to identify best practices into the literature on imperialism and settler colonialism, it highlights how, notwithstanding progressive motivations, Canadian academic involvement in development efforts rested upon and reified settler colonialism at home and abroad. (4)