History

February 19, 2008

ONLINE VIDEO: Fidel Castro

In light of recent news from Cuba, you may be interested in checking out the excellent PBS biographical film, Fidel Castro. Thanks to the partnership between PBS & NCLive that we announced last month, we now have access to it and many other PBS documentaries online. You can also check out the DVD from our media collection.

Watch online.

Find the DVD.

More new readings on Cuba and Castro:

October 24, 2007

NEW READINGS on Food, Cookbooks & Culture



Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on the food industry
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways
The international politics of genetically modified food : diplomacy, trade and law
Safe trip to Eden : 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown
Agroecology in action : extending alternative agriculture through social networks
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Food biotechnology in ethical perspective
Evolution of the human diet : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable
Medieval cuisine of the Islamic world : a concise history with 174 recipes
Curry : a tale of cooks and conquerors
Food in world history
Food in the ancient world
Organic, inc. : natural foods and how they grew
Two for the road : our love affair with American food
Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
The hundred-year lie : how food and medicine are destroying your health
The end of food
Alcohol : a social and cultural history
Food, film and culture : a genre study
Crunchy Cons
Voracious children : who eats whom in children's literature
The way we eat : why our food choices matter
Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food
Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America
Worlds of food : place, power, and provenance in the food chain
Eating in Eden : food and American utopias
Ethical markets : growing the green economy
The revolution will not be microwaved : inside America's underground food movements
Everyone eats : understanding food and culture
The classical cookbook
Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote
Recipes for reading: community cookbooks, stories, histories
Cooking the Gullah way, morning, noon, and night
Around the Roman table : with more than 150 original recipes
Fields of plenty : a farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it
A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances
Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories (online)
The American cookbook : a history
The women in God's kitchen : cooking, eating, and spiritual writing
Food in colonial and federal America
From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food

October 11, 2007

NEW E-RESOURCE: Historical Statistics

Access Historical Statistics of the United States online.

This standard source for the quantitative facts of American history is now available online.

Download, manipulate and customize tables of data on a range of topics, from Asheville population stats from 1930-present to the amount of silk traded between England and the Carolinas in the 1700s.

More info

August 23, 2007

NEW READINGS on Research & Writing


Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : engineering and the technical sciences
How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing
How to do a research project : a guide for undergraduate students
Writing history essays : a student's guide
Writing to teach; writing to learn in higher education
Good essay writing : a social sciences guide
Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines : research on the academic writing life
Visual research methods : image, society, and representation
The sociology student writer's manual
Researching and writing : a portable guide

See also:
EndNote Web Tutorials

August 02, 2007

NEW E-RESOURCE: Oxford African American Studies Center

  Now available via our Research Databases section:

The Oxford African American Studies Center, a scholarly database containing primary source materials, photographs, maps, charts, tables, and 7,500 articles from core reference works.

TIP: Do a full text search for "Asheville" to find references to local African American history.

July 02, 2007

NEW READINGS on American Life


America against the world : how we are different and why we are disliked
The shape of things to come : prophecy and the American voice
Windows on nature : the great habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History
The arrogance of American power : what U.S. leaders are doing wrong and why it's our duty to dissent
Dark ages America : the final phase of empire
Philosophy Americana : making philosophy at home in American culture
Who are we? : the challenges to America's identity
Light and liberty : reflections on the pursuit of happiness
The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The old, weird America : the world of Bob Dylan's basement tapes
Americans and their land : the house built on abundance
Making America work
What matters in America : reading and writing about contemporary culture

online:
FedStats: U.S. government agency statistics portal
American FactFinder
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
The OECD Factbook
The World Factbook (CIA)

NEW READINGS on American History


Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war
The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution
Infamous scribblers : the founding fathers and the rowdy beginnings of American journalism
American protest literature
Thomas Jefferson's scrapbooks : poems of nation, family, & romantic love collected by America's third president
Traveling women : narrative visions of early America
Feminist interventions in early American studies

online:
America: History and Life (UNCA users only)
The American Memory Project, Documenting the American South, and The Making of America (primary resource collections)
Early American Newspapers (UNCA users only)
New York Times (1851-2001) - Historical Newspaper Collection (UNCA users only)

March 25, 2007

Women's History in Asheville: photographs

February 26, 2007

Black History in Asheville: photographs

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