Monthly Archives: October 2016

American Song: A Sign of the (War)Times

by marc9 Posted on October 29, 2016

Did you hear? (Of course, you did.) Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature a few weeks ago. As the Nobel committee wrote, it awarded the prize to Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” That is a mighty step up for an already valued and valuable tradition […] Continue reading →

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Food in the News: More Election Cakes! (#5)

by archivistkira Posted on October 24, 2016

All that time I spent writing about “Election Cake” last week, then NPR went and did it for me over the weekend! You can check out their piece “A History Of Election Cake And Why Bakers Want To #MakeAmericaCakeAgain” online, complete with the audio. On the other hand, maybe this means “What’s Cookin’” is staying ahead […] Continue reading →

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Cake and Politics/Politics and Cake

by archivistkira Posted on October 20, 2016

Lately I’ve been thinking about how to write a post about political food without, well, getting into politics. Since food is so much a part of our lives, it’s hardly surprising that it would play a part in our political lives, too. For you dairy fans, there are two strange examples of food gifts to […] Continue reading →

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The Fugitive Author

by jojacks2 Posted on October 20, 2016

Robert Burns Escaped from the Georgia Chain Gangs, Then Strove to Abolish Them Here in Special Collections, we hold a number of books that have altered the course of history. Such works as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Communist Manifesto, Common Sense, and Walden have all profoundly shaped human thought and history, and all have places […] Continue reading →

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Native Voices: or, The History of Whitepeople

by roganwright Posted on October 13, 2016

On September 16, 2016, Newman Library began hosting the Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness exhibit. The exhibit was developed and produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and came here as part of a tour put together by the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office. It will remain on display in the library’s […] Continue reading →

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Gelatin, Seeds, and Advertising History

by archivistkira Posted on October 7, 2016

A couple of weeks ago, one of my colleagues in the library showed up on my doorstep with an old advertisement. She picked it up, thinking I would want it for the culinary collection–as, of course, I did. After all, it featured one of my favorite obsessions and frequent blog topic: gelatin.  Today, however, I won’t […] Continue reading →

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The Sherwood Anderson Odyssey

by aisforarchives Posted on October 7, 2016

In 1925, Sherwood Anderson, the father of the modernist style of American literature, visited Troutdale, Virginia not far from the town of Marion, to escape New Orleans’ oppressive summer heat. By that time, Anderson’s writings, such as Winesburg, Ohio (1919), The Triumph of the Egg (1921), and Dark Laughter (1925), had brought him critical acclaim […] Continue reading →

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Dr. Malte Elson on Peer Review in Science

by Philip Young Posted on October 4, 2016

Few areas in scholarly publishing are undergoing the kind of examination and change that peer review is currently undergoing. Healthy debates continue on different models of peer review, incentivizing peer reviewers, and various shades of open peer review, among many … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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