ABSTRACT Drawing on archival research and oral history, this article explores the 1970 founding of Colegio Jacinto Treviño, the first Chicano college in the U.S. Driven by the Movement’s spirit of self-determination, the institution functioned as an accredited teachers’ college focused on bilingual-bicultural education. School leaders shaped the curriculum by engaging with South Texas communities to challenge discrimination and unequal schooling. By integrating community oral history, public history, and arts, the Colegio fostered a unique Chicana/o institutional identity. Ultimately, its graduates carried this mission of self-determination into diverse careers as educators, lawyers, and community organizers.

ABSTRACT Dutch elm disease (DED) spread throughout the United States in the 20th century and resulted in mortality of many elm trees. In this study, bearing trees from Indiana’s historical Public Land Survey (PLS) records were used to reconstruct species mingling, diameter differentiation, and competition indices of elm prior to the introduction of DED. Prior to DED spread, elm had an average species mingling index of 0.77, a diameter differentiation index of 0.36, and a competition index of 1.22. Forests where elm had significantly lower mingling indices occurred along rivers. Forests where elm had significantly lower diameter differentiation indices were located near the homeland of the Piankashaw Tribe, which later became the French settlement of Vincennes. Forests where elm had significantly higher diameter differentiation indices were in areas that experienced later settlement by Europeans. Competition indices for elm were regularly dispersed across the state with no significant spatial clustering. This study demonstrated the impact of physiography and human activities on the structure of elm prior to the spread of DED and documented the successful application of PLS records to provide an ecological baseline of elm prior to the introduction of a non-native pathogen.

This article describes a free, online resource developed in conjunction with a second-year subject taught at a university in regional Australia. It examines the foundations of that subject, the ambitions of the resource developed, and the afterlife of an Open Educational Resource (OER) developed for a subject that has since been disestablished. It discusses the potential of digital public history, analyzing the opportunities for (and obstructions to) publishing in non-traditional formats.

Societal Impact Statement Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei , endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity. The original source of the scientific name has long been cited incorrectly because a later, more widely read academic account displaced an earlier, valid description in a local periodical that some taxonomists dismissed as nonacademic. The case of T. abei is not unique; many similar works were likely treated in the same way. This example underscores the importance of careful nomenclatural study and better access to regional publications so that plant diversity is accurately documented and properly recognized. Summary Thismia abei is a minute, mycoheterotrophic plant that emerges above the leaf litter in summer. Here, we present a comprehensive review of T. abei by integrating recent findings on its morphology, phylogenetics, ecology, and nomenclatural history. Phylogenetic analyses place T. abei among the early‐diverging lineages of the Old World Thismia clade, and current taxonomy assigns it to Thismia sect. Labiothismia . Its stamens are united into a tube along part of their length, although they were previously regarded as free. This misinterpretation has hindered comparisons between Old World and New World lineages. The species exhibits high mycorrhizal specificity and is associated primarily with two Rhizophagus virtual taxa (Glomeraceae). The fungus gnat Bradysia atracornea (Sciaridae) has been observed visiting its musty‐scented flowers, consistent with the hypothesis that some fairy lanterns exploit fungus‐associated cues. Beyond its biological elusiveness, T. abei also has an obscure nomenclatural history. In a Japanese academic climate in which influential botanists shaped prevailing views of what counted as effective publication, a later and more prominent account became the standard citation for the name, obscuring the earlier protologue that had been effectively published in a regional periodical. This case suggests that substantial taxonomic information remains hidden in regional Japanese publications. In addition, the publication history of T. abei , involving collaboration between a local naturalist, Chikaichi Abe, and a professional botanist, Yoshiyuki Akasawa, illustrates how such partnerships can bring overlooked plants to scientific attention and foreshadows key features of modern citizen science.

ABSTRACT Bridging Solidarity is a digital map that fosters exploration of Pittsburgh’s long labor history. This project introduces audiences to fourteen strikes or strike-related conflicts across Allegheny County from the early nineteenth century to today, by combining secondary literature, newspapers, digital and physical archival material, visual media, and historic maps. Hosted in the platform HistoryPin, Bridging Solidarity promotes engagement with strikes across time and space, inspires an appreciation for local places, and highlights many diverging experiences within Pittsburgh’s labor movement. The article contextualizes this work within three historic subfields: digital humanities, place-based public labor history, and diverse local labor history. This project’s digital inception influenced its design, preservation, and writing, as informed by the insights of digital historians. Place-based history helps audiences better understand local labor history, grounding its interpretation in relevant sites that are publicly accessible and likely familiar to audiences. Additionally, this project centers marginalized people and the ambiguities of strikes past, presenting a complicated narrative that increases public awareness of how women and African Americans have influenced and experienced Pittsburgh’s history. Last, future expansions of this project will prompt further engagement with these historical subfields.

ABSTRACT This article explores the archive of Wits University Press through a decolonial lens using the celebrated black author, Benedict Wallett Vilakazi, as example and narrative thread. Against the background of neglect of publishers’ archives, not only in South Africa, it makes a case for the preservation of institutional and corporate archives. As sites of contested knowledge, they have historical and literary value. They are also an important resource for publishers when digitising the backlist, especially of titles by marginalised authors, in order to address any inequality that may have marked the author-publisher relationship. Along with an interrogation of institutional histories, the publisher’s archive can shed knowledge on the history of publishing in South Africa, especially of writing in African languages.

Purpose The purpose of this article is provide an insight in to the work of ABCA from a public relations history perspective. It addresses why and how ABCA was created in 1941, its purpose and resolves whether ABCA delivered PR, propaganda or education. Design/methodology/approach This historical research article was based on archival research of original historical documents relating to ABCA in seven UK archives, primarily: Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge: The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London; The National Archives, Kew, London. Analysis of the ABCA case was organised using the method of historical institutionalism to identify the institutional case study and time period. ABCA from 1941 to 1946, the formal and informal institutions, and the institutional entrepreneurs who created ABCA and its institutional ideas and effects. Findings The scope of ABCA's institutional and communicative purpose – to improve morale and motivation in the army by informing soldiers about what they were fighting for – was an internal communications task. ABCA adopted an educative style of informative public information for the army that had been laid out by Grierson, Tallents and others in the interwar years. The mode of delivery was an educative PR approach that involved soldiers actively in their learning, which encouraged expression of opinions and moved beyond the paternalistic approach of public relations in the 1920 and 1930s. Practical implications The historical case of ABCA case has relevance at a time when many voters – particularly young people– are disillusioned with mainstream politics and disengaged from civic life, or engaging with populist political options. Alongside this trend of civic disengagement, countries in Europe, including the UK, are planning expansion of their armed forces on a scale not seen since the end of the Cold War in response to a rising threat level. Originality/value Although the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (ABCA) in the Second World War is mentioned in several books on public relations (PR), this article offers the first in-depth analysis of ABCA as a PR organisation from the perspective of public relations history. ABCA's application of an educative style of communications on civic topics was novel to the army – and a direct response to the new demands of conscript soldiers – and built upon the educative style of public relations work in the interwar years.

The underrepresentation of female individuals as research participants and manuscript authors is a longstanding issue in science in general and in the discipline of applied and exercise physiology. Over my ∼50 yr as an investigator, mentor, author, manuscript reviewer, and journal editor, my decisions obviously impacted these trends. To determine whether I was part of the problem or the solution, I audited my entire publication history and compared the results to a 50% aspirational census-based goal and to the composite across the histories of three leading exercise/applied physiology journals. A total of 10,706 individuals were included in my 203 human studies-49.8% were female individuals versus 42.5% female research participants for the other three journals. Forty percent of my studies had female research participants, which is above the composite 35% for the other journals. Of my single sex studies, 23% included female participants, which is above the 15% for the three journals. The authors on my articles are 16% female individuals, which is below the composite 23% for the other journals. Thus, except for the inclusion of female research participants in my studies, I have contributed to the ongoing problem and not the solution to the underrepresentation of female individuals in the discipline of exercise/applied physiology. It remains for each of us to do some introspective thinking relative to this ongoing issue because the decisions to rectify this situation have to come from individuals who choose to address this issue directly in their research programs.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Female individuals are underrepresented as participants and authors in applied/exercise physiology studies. Over my 50 yr in the field, my decisions obviously impacted these trends. Reviewing my entire publication history, except for including female research participants, I have contributed to this problem over the course of my career. It remains for each of us to look inside ourselves to determine whether we want to be part of the solution or part of the problem.

This study aims to reconstruct the political and philosophical legacy of Nikolai I. Astrov, whose work bridges prerevolutionary liberalism and the intellectual traditions of the emigrant community, and to demonstrate how his writings transform the language of administrative service into a philosophy of memory, responsibility, and civic mission. The relevance of the research lies in the need to clarify how liberal ideas and categories of responsibility are reshaped under conditions of institutional collapse and forced displacement. The study is situated within an interdisciplinary framework that integrates tools from memory studies, intellectual history, and conceptual history. The corpus comprises 48 publications, 37 letters, one volume of memoirs, and six public lectures. Qualitative coding and lexico-semantic analysis were applied; Cohen's κ coefficient reached 0.82, indicating strong inter-coder reliability. The analysis suggests that Astrov articulated a distinctive model of civic identity grounded in the interplay between the ethics of action and archival reflection. The study contributes to scholarship on Russian liberal thought and émigré intellectual history by showing how administrative practice can be reconfigured as a language of ethical responsibility and memorial testimony. The practical value of the study lies in the potential application of its findings in courses on the history of political thought, public history, and the philosophy of memory, as well as in the development of digital cartographies of the intellectual networks of the Russian diaspora.

Crunching Around: Zines and DIY Scholarship documents and reflects upon work the author presented at the 2025 meeting of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. It is based on a panel presentation entitled “Exploring DIY Geographies and Communities in Broken Pencil and Punk Planet Using Digital Methods," and focuses on both proprietary and open digital scholarship tools to explore zine archives and to locate entry points and workflows for engaging with zines' digital afterlives. The zine narrates the author's ideas and thought process for comparative work with ProQuest TDM Studio's geospatial analysis of Broken Pencil, the storied Canadian metazine, and his own homebrew processing of Punk Planet, a U.S. publication similar in content and audience, available on the Internet Archive. The author considers some affordances and tensions in working with established and do-it-yourself interfaces for doing digital scholarship in Zine Studies, concluding that the messy, open-ended, and playful ethos of zine culture is a suitable match for hands-on experimental approaches and that “crunching around” in the code, data, and zine content offers us ways of knowing typically occluded by closed corporate platforms.

New Bedford, Massachusetts, celebrated for its whaling past and immortalized in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick , occupies a central place in the American maritime imagination. Yet amid this storied legacy, one coastal presence has remained largely unacknowledged: seaweed. Often considered biologically mundane or visually peripheral, seaweed has been overlooked in cultural narratives despite its enduring material, sensory, and symbolic roles in coastal communities. This paper reframes seaweed as a heritage species and a more-than-human participant in shaping New Bedford’s identity, memory, and environmental rhythm. Drawing on biosemiotics, narrative ecology, and cultural heritage theory, it explores how seaweed functions simultaneously as sign and species. Working with a curated collection of 100 archival items, including pressed seaweed albums, whaling logbooks, oral histories, and maritime ephemera, the article traces how algae have acted as co-creators of cultural practice from the 19th century to the present. A biosemiotic lens positions seaweed within a relational framework of ecological responsiveness and cultural memory. From practical uses in agriculture and maritime labor to its presence in Victorian art, eco-design, and culinary revival, seaweed emerges as a material of continuity and care. Its tactile qualities, symbolic renderings, and seasonal rhythms invite ways of knowing grounded in interrelation. Seaweed’s cultural invisibility stems not from insignificance but from the anthropocentric lens that has shaped heritage frameworks. This study offers a relational model, grounded in biosemiotic feedback and multispecies ethics, that recognizes algae as co-authors of cultural meaning and contributes to emerging conversations in more-than-human geography and environmental humanities. It contributes to ongoing conversations in environmental ethics, public history, and sensory heritage by encouraging new approaches to storytelling, conservation, and governance that foreground the interdependence of human and ecological memory.

The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the architectural and structural characteristics of the Central Department Store building located in the city of Kharkiv, which is recognized as an architectural heritage site of local significance. The building represents an important example of early twentieth-century commercial architecture and reflects the socio-economic and urban development processes that shaped Kharkiv during that period. Particular attention is given to the historical stages of the building’s design and construction, including its original conception, subsequent transformations, and functional adaptations, which collectively demonstrate its lasting importance within the urban and cultural context of the city. The study examines the spatial planning structure of the building, including the organization of trading halls, circulation systems, and auxiliary premises, as well as the compositional principles of the facades. The analysis highlights the structural scheme based on a reinforced concrete frame system, which enabled large-span interiors and flexible planning solutions typical of department stores of that era. Architectural features such as the rhythmic articulation of facades, geometric forms, restrained decorative elements, and extensive glazing are considered in relation to the principles of constructivism, which influenced the building’s stylistic character and determined its rational yet expressive appearance. Special attention is devoted to the building’s role within the historical urban fabric of central Kharkiv, where it contributes to the spatial organization and visual identity of the surrounding area. The research also explores the relationship between architectural form and engineering solutions, demonstrating how structural innovations supported both aesthetic expression and commercial functionality. The article emphasizes the importance of studying architectural heritage in the context of contemporary preservation practices. The analysis is based on archival documents, historical publications, bibliographic sources, and on-site visual inspections, with particular focus on assessing the technical condition of load-bearing elements, floor systems, and facade components under present-day operational and environmental influences. The aim of the study is to analyze the original design solutions and identify the stylistic characteristics that allowed the building to be harmoniously integrated into the historical urban environment. The findings may serve as a theoretical and practical foundation for restoration strategies, adaptive reuse projects, and the sustainable preservation of historically valuable buildings.

This article presents a systematic analysis of the historical development, institutional transformations, and contemporary challenges of book publishing across the African continent. The study adopts a broad chronological perspective, ranging from early manuscript traditions in regions such as Timbuktu and North Africa to colonial-era printing activities, missionary publishing practices, post-independence national publishing policies, and recent processes of digital transformation within the context of globalization. The analysis demonstrates that the African publishing sector is shaped by key structural factors, including linguistic diversity, limited readership capacity, copyright regulation, distribution infrastructure, and varying levels of state support. These factors collectively influence both the constraints and the developmental potential of publishing systems across the continent. The findings indicate that digital technologies, international cooperation, and expanding access to knowledge create new opportunities for the sustainable development of African publishing. The integration of traditional publishing practices with contemporary technological systems is identified as a central pathway for strengthening the position of African publishing within the global knowledge economy.

Continuing its long history of influential scientific publishing, Philosophical Transactions B publishes high quality theme issues on topics of current importance and general interest within the life sciences, guest-edited by leading authorities and comprising new research, reviews and opinions from prominent researchers.

ABSTRACT Diaries have long been considered crucial sources for documenting the fate of European Jews during the Holocaust. However, unlike retrospective accounts, Holocaust diaries are often published by individuals other than the author. This article examines the publication history of Holocaust diaries in English translation, and how the transition from private text to public artifact is framed by editors and family members in prefaces, afterwords, and interviews. An important discourse is identified: a tension between a perceived moral imperative to share and publish the diary, on the one hand, and the pain and vulnerability that ensues with publication, on the other.

ABSTRACT This article examines the layered meanings and evolving functions of public history in both academic scholarship and wider societal practice. It explores how the various components of public history intersect and how these entanglements reshape the conditions under which historical knowledge is produced, circulated, and authorized. As a subfield of historical studies, public history investigates representations and uses of the past, including ephemeral, embodied or performative practices that restage historical events. To research such representations public historians employ inter- and transdisciplinary methods, thereby expanding the conceptual and methodological repertoire of historical inquiry. At the same time, public history operates as a transdisciplinary mode of knowledge co-production that extends beyond academic peer communities. Through collaborations with society actors, it generates historical meaning in socially engaged contexts and thus reconfigures the boundaries between scholarly expertise and public participation.

Purpose To analyse the representation of Thainess in the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)'s public relations campaigns targeting international audiences throughout four-decade history (1979–2022) and to examine changes in the representation throughout the period. Design/methodology/approach The study employed a narrative historical study using a qualitative content analysis to examine Thainess in the TAT's international public relations landmark campaigns, along with Dann's (1996), the language of tourism, combining visual and verbal techniques. Findings Throughout the three transitional phases of the TAT's Thainess portrayal, Thainess is a key marketing and identity-building tool for Thai Tourism promotion. Thainess has shifted from a strong portrayal of cultural heritage in the early phases to be more experiential and accessible blending traditional and modern cultural elements. Thainess' scope has expanded from physical settings, people and national values to health, wellness and sustainability. Research limitations/implications The research focused primarily on English-language materials. The representations of Thainess in different languages need to be explored. A comparative analysis of tourism public relations in other countries could be investigated to expand the global tourism public relations history. Practical implications Suggestions for the future development of tourism public relations to national identity promotion targeting international audiences are given. Social implications The study suggests societal impacts of TAT's campaigns on the domestic level. Further study can be conducted from domestic tourism viewpoints. Originality/value This study provides a contribution to the diachronic study of the representation of a national identity from communication and sociolinguistic perspectives in historical public relations tourism.

Abstract: This essay discusses the author's visit to Arlington House in the spring of 2025, a season of deepening crisis for federally funded research and public history on slavery and Black life in the United States. Arlington House (a National Park Service site also known as the Robert E. Lee Memorial) was closed for renovation in 2018 and reopened in 2021 with a new interpretive focus on slavery and freedom. Two years later, descendant groups signed an agreement with the Park Service to ensure that exhibits at the house were honest and accountable to the families of enslaved people who once lived and labored there, like Charles and Maria Syphax. These changes could still be seen at the site in March 2025. By the summer, however, the site's new features were threatened by political directives from Washington, DC, that targeted Black history. These developments make it more imperative than ever for historians to research the many complex lives that intersected at Arlington House, including twentieth-century Park Service employees like Essie Hart Lawrence, a Black park technician who worked at the site in 1975 when President Gerald Ford arrived to sign a resolution restoring Lee's citizenship.

This paper examines the interconnected themes of love, loss, and survival in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), a novel set against the backdrop of the Nigerian–Biafran War. This paper examines how personal relationships are shaped, tested, and transformed by the violence and instability of war. Through characters such as Olanna, Odenigbo, Ugwu, and Richard, Adichie presents love not merely as romance but as emotional commitment, care, and moral responsibility in times of crisis. The paper argues that loss in the novel operates on multiple levels, personal, cultural, and national, reflecting the destruction of lives, ideals, and collective memory caused by the conflict. At the same time, the narrative foregrounds survival as both a physical and psychological process, highlighting resilience, adaptation, and the will to endure amid trauma and displacement. By blending intimate domestic experiences with historical realities, Adichie humanises the Biafran War and challenges dominant historical silences surrounding it. This research paper adopts a close textual analysis to show how the novel balances private suffering with public history, revealing how ordinary individuals negotiate identity and hope under extreme conditions. Therefore, this paper demonstrates that Half of a Yellow Sun portrays survival not as triumph but as a fragile, ongoing struggle shaped by love and marked by irreversible loss.

Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) now dominate the global food supply and are strongly associated with risks for heart disease, cancers, metabolic disease, diabetes, and obesity. UPFs are likely associated with rates of neurologic issues such as dementia and Parkinson's disease and predict premature death. Drawing on the history of tobacco regulation, we examine how the design, marketing, and distribution of UPFs mirror those of industrial tobacco products. Such information speaks to the sophistication and aims of food product manipulation and its consequences. This review synthesizes findings from addiction science, nutrition, and public health history to identify structural and sensory features that increase the reinforcing potential of both cigarettes and UPFs. We focus on five key areas: dose optimization, delivery speed, hedonic engineering, environmental ubiquity, and deceptive reformulation. Cigarettes and UPFs are not simply natural products but highly engineered delivery systems designed specifically to maximize biological and psychological reinforcement and habitual overuse. Both industries have used similar strategies to increase product appeal, evade regulation, and shape public perception, including adding sensory additives, accelerating reward delivery, expanding contextual access, and deploying health-washing claims. These design features collectively hijack human biology, undermine individual agency, and contribute heavily to disease and health care costs. UPFs should be evaluated not only through a nutritional lens but also as addictive, industrially engineered substances. Lessons from tobacco regulation, including litigation, marketing restrictions, and structural interventions, offer a roadmap for reducing UPF-related harm. Public health efforts must shift from individual responsibility to food industry accountability, recognizing UPFs as potent drivers of preventable disease.