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Month: October 2008

Full text of North American Dissertations and Theses now available online!

The Library has upgraded its subscription to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. PQDT Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text Full text of North American Dissertations and Theses now available online!

Brown “New Curriculum” 1968 Report Now Available Online

From Martha Mitchell’s Encyclopedia Brunoniana : On May 8, 1969, after a “marathon” meeting, the faculty voted the first major change in the curriculum since the “Ducasse curriculum” of 1947. The move toward curricular reform began with a GISP (Group Independent Study Program) which decided in 1966 to study education at Brown. In 1967 a Brown “New Curriculum” 1968 Report Now Available Online

Visual History Archive of USC Shoah Foundation Now Available

The Brown University Library is pleased to announce that Brown users now have on-campus access to the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. The VHA contains nearly 52,000 visual history testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, videotaped in 56 countries in 32 languages. Further information and tools for accessing the Visual History Archive of USC Shoah Foundation Now Available

Read the article in the College Hill Independent about Brown University and the Great Depression

Crisis at the Gates: How Brown Deals with Economic Turmoil, Past and Present, and What That Means for Providence, by Joy Neumeyer, with reporting by Michael Gonda This article was written with sources researched at the Brown University Archives. If you would like to research the history of Brown University during the Great Depression or Read the article in the College Hill Independent about Brown University and the Great Depression

Online version of the Women’s History Month exhibit: Disturbances

In March 2008, the Pembroke Center in partnership with the John Hay Library, created an exhibit in celebration of Women’s History Month. The exhibit included materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive and the newly established Feminist Theory Papers. Here is the link to a smaller online version of the exhibit: Disturbances For more information Online version of the Women’s History Month exhibit: Disturbances