Eresource News: February 2008 Archives
TU Libraries has recently added Black Studies Center to its suite of eResources!Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. Included in the collection are essays and articles, archived newspapers, images, film clips and more.
Select film clips include:
- Black athlete Jesse Owens returns from the Olympic Games to New York City in 1936.
- Blackface routine, 1930s.
- Civil rights march, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
- Newark race riots in New Jersey in July 1967.
- Men interviewed in a soup kitchen, 1983.
TU Libraries has recently added Black Historical Newspapers to its suite of eResources!Black Historical Newspapers offers digitally-scanned primary source material on African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts as found in the following five historical newspapers:
- Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003) The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century.
- The Chicago Defender (1909-1975) A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago.
- Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) The oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) This leading Black newspaper of the 20th century reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier
challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national
media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
Be sure to check them out!
The Encyclopedia of Political Communication is now available online via Sage eReference.The encyclopedia contains discussion of the major theoretical approaches to the field, including direct and limited effects theories, agenda-setting theories, sociological theories, framing and priming theories, and other past and present conceptualizations.
Considerable attention is devoted to major sources of political communication and to important political messages such as presidential speeches, televised political advertising, political posters and print advertising, televised political debates, and Internet sites.
TU Libraries now has a quick and easy way to search numerous databases at a single time: MultiSearch!MultiSearch allows you to search across multiple databases using one simple interface. It provides citations and abstracts as well as linking opportunities to full-text articles, e-books and other resources.
Check it out!
Three new literary titles have been added to the Cambridge Companions series via Cambridge Collections Online as part of the January 2008 update: