contributed by Wesley Martin, CCHP student assistant. -The R. Allen and Beatrix T. Gardner papers included thousands of photographs taken during their research studies, which involved teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to chimpanzees. In this blog, CCHP student assistant Wesley Martin gives his perspective on making photographs from the second study (1972-1981) available to researchers. […]| Cummings Center Blog
contributed by Emily Gainer, Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarian. Through thorough record-keeping, the R. Allen and Beatrix T. Gardner papers document two studies relating to teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to five cross-fostered chimpanzees over 15 years. Yet, the papers also document the humans involved in the Gardners’ lives and research. One of these stories […]| Cummings Center Blog
-contributed by Emily Gainer, Assistant Processing Archivist/Special Collections Librarian. In 2022, the Archives of the History of American Psychology received nearly 500 boxes of papers, films, photographs, and computer hard drives and disks from the estate of R. Allen Gardner. These papers document the Gardners’ unique research on communication with cross-fostered chimpanzees. This is one […]| Cummings Center Blog
contributed by Museums & Archives Certificate Program student Katie Gable The first film in the Night at the Museum trilogy came out in 2006 and my family rented it from the local Family Video shortly after its DVD release in 2007. Six-year-old Katie watched that film and never let it leave her mind. She knew […]| Cummings Center Blog
Written by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. “America is Suffering from an Outbreak of Psychology.” Those words were written in 1924 by Stephen Leacock, Canada’s Mark Twain. Leacock wrote in the March issue of Harper’s Magazine: In the earlier days this science was kept strictly confined to the colleges … It had no particular connection with […]| Cummings Center Blog
– contributed by Museums & Archives Certificate Program student Katie Gable In 1950, married pair of American psychologists Gardner and Lois B. Murphy went to India to help solve social tensions between Hindus and Muslims. Using funds allocated to them by UNESCO, they assembled six teams of researchers who were headed by Indian psychologists, professors, […]| Cummings Center Blog
– contributed by Tony Pankuch. Next week, the Cummings Center will launch its newest exhibit, Sexology: Science & Sensationalism, which explores the 50-year run of Sexology magazine (1933-1983), a sex science publication sold to popular audiences as “The Door to Sex Enlightenment.” I’ve had the pleasure of helping to supervise our current cohort of Museums […]| Cummings Center Blog
– contributed by Museums & Archives Certiftcate Program student Katie Gable I am in my final semester of undergrad and every so often I reminisce fondly on my time at The University of Ak…| Cummings Center Blog
– contributed by Yangtian Yan and Cathy Faye As our world becomes increasingly digital, traditional paper documents such as correspondence, diaries, and notes are less commonly saved and fil…| Cummings Center Blog
– contributed by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. The collections of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology are rich with treasures that tell the history of psychology over its roughly 150 ye…| Cummings Center Blog
