For your October edification, here are a few Halloween-related resources:
WEB
Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows (The American Folklife Center)
Facts for Features: Halloween (The US Census Bureau)
Vintage Halloween images (NYPL Digital Collections)
BOOKS
The Book of Holidays Around the World
Horror Film Resources in the Library
Don't forget about our Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial Events!
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.
More new readings on Cuba and Castro:
From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice
At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 / Taylor Branch
Social solutions to poverty : America's struggle to build a just society
The Civil Rights movement in American memory
Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965
The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights
Christianity and human rights : influences and issues
Religion, terrorism and globalization : nonviolence : a new agenda
Gandhi and beyond : nonviolence for an age of terrorism
The dream long deferred : the landmark struggle for desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century
Many minds, one heart : SNCC's dream for a new America
Challenging U.S. apartheid : Atlanta and Black struggles for human rights, 1960-1977
Frontiers of justice : disability, nationality, species membership
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced their 2007 "Genius Grant" recipients, so we thought we'd direct you to some of the recipients' work:
Stuart Dybek (writer)
ONLINE TEXTS & CRITICISM
American short-story writers since World War II
The International Association of Crime Writers presents Bad behavior
The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction : fifty North American stories since 1970
The eleventh draft : craft and the writing life from Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Norton anthology of contemporary fiction
I sailed with Magellan (ABC)
PP/FF : an anthology (ABC)
Our working lives : short stories of people and work (ABC)
The Vintage book of contemporary American short stories (ABC)
Dawn Upshaw (vocalist)
Ainadamar (CD)
Jonathan Shay (clinical psychiatrist/classicist)
Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character
Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming
Saul Griffith (Inventor)
Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop--from personal computers to personal fabrication (It discusses his work.)
Peter Cole (Translator/Poet/Publisher)
ONLINE CRITICISM
Hymns & qualms
Rift
The Dream Of The Poem : Hebrew Poetry From Muslim And Christian Spain, 950-1492
Mercedes Doretti (Forensic Anthropologist)
Following Antigone [DVD] : forensic anthropology and human rights investigations (ABC)
Michael Elowitz (Molecular Biologist)
"Synthetic Life" (online article)
"Microbes Made to Order" (online article)
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)
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)
The new Americans : a guide to immigration since 1965
Immigrant America : a portrait
Hispanic Americans
Illegal immigration : a reference handbook
Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction
Immigration and crime : race, ethnicity, and violence
Immigration and asylum : from 1900 to the present
U.S. immigration : a reference handbook
online:
DHS: Immigration Statistics
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
NPR: The Immigration Debate
PBS: The New Americans
PBS: Destination America
Also in our collection:
Learning Express Library: GRE & other standardized test preparation materials online. UNCA login required.
Removing barriers : women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
50 success classics [electronic resource] : winning wisdom for life and work from 50 landmark books
Training and education in professional psychology [electronic resource]
Planning, proposing, and presenting science effectively : a guide for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral sciences and biology
also in our collection:
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
Islam and human rights : tradition and politics
Women shaping Islam : reading the Quran in Indonesia
Basic principles of the Islamic worldview
Islam in the world
Jihad in Islamic history : doctrines and practice
Islam and the abolition of slavery
Mecca and Main Street : Muslim life in America after 9/11
Islam obscured : the rhetoric of anthropological representation
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
on the web:
Muslims (PBS)
Religion & Ethics -- Islam (BBC News)
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other (Pew Global Attitudes Project)
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