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...identity. European colonies extended rights of denization (a preliminary to citizenship) to those coming from any part of Europe ? including Jews ? before such rights were available in the respective mother countries. Evidence from slave ship revolts ? collected as part of the transatlantic slave trade database project (now available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press) ? suggests that African cohesiveness in resistance to the trade increased over the decades so that there was much more likelihood of a slave ship rebellion being successful in the second half of eighteenth century than a century earlier. From a broad five century perspective, everyone...
Gates and Appiah launched the site on Martin Luther King's birthday in 1999, largely to sell copies of the Africana encyclopedia on CD-ROM and in print...
GIVE ME YOUR WIRED The Ellis Island Experience ($39.99) is a new CD-ROM that documents the immigrant experience of that famous portal to America, from the chalk marks put on the coats of those with health problems to the Austrian woman who thought the Statue of Liberty was a statue of Columbus. It's a story that deserves to be retold in every medium, and it's told well in this...
...digital age has made it easy to capture and share family moments. But just like traditional photographs, printed digital images can fade--sometimes within months. By the time a child graduates from high school, the baby pictures could be gone. To save those memories, download digital photos onto a CD-ROM, and be sure to update your archives every few years as technology changes...
Also from Sony was a radical new addition to its Mavica line of digital cameras. The Mavica MVC-CD1000 ($1,300, available in August) comes with a built-in CD-ROM burner, so when you snap a picture, you don't have to download it to your PC. Instead, the camera writes the image straight to a disc. No fuss, no muss...