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Publisher: Brown University George Orwell Materials at Brown University Library 
 This site presents information about "one of the largest and most important gatherings of ... material in private hands" relating to author George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair). The site features commentary about and images from texts by Orwell, including "Down and Out in Paris and London," "Animal Farm," and "Nineteen Eighty-Four." From Special Collections at Brown University Library. http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/libs/hay/collections/orwell/ Topics: Archives, Authors by Region, Literary Movements and Periods, Literature by Place Last updated Jan 26, 2005 Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
This site provides images of "broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets and government publications" that have been collected at Brown for over three centuries for researchers ... interested in American history, including the history of alcoholism, and in how the media was used for spreading ideas and information, and in how the arts presented various movements." Also includes a historical essay. Searchable, or browsable by document creator, publisher, or title. From Brown University Library. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/temperance/ Topics: Activism, Drugs & Medications by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, Society & Social Science, Society & Social Science Last updated Feb 22, 2005 Napoleonic Caricatures: A Brown University Digital Collection
This site presents a searchable and browsable collection of satiric prints of Napoleon Bonaparte. "Satires made in Britain and continental Europe that depict Napoleon as a diminutive brat combat Napoleon's self-constructed imperial image as a powerful god-like ruler." Includes an introductory essay, a chronology, and "Who's Who." From the Brown University Library. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon/ Topics: Arts and Humanities, History By Place, Media, Nonfiction by Genre, Politics, Regions of the World Last updated Oct 29, 2003 American Communities Project
Using 2000 census data, "these pages offer information and analyses of how the racial and ethnic composition of metropolitan areas has shifted in the last ten years, and how increasing diversity is experienced at the level of local neighborhoods." From Brown University's Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences. http://www.s4.brown.edu/S4/projects.htm Topics: Black Resources, Housing, Social Science, Statistics Last updated Jan 11, 2006 Decameron Web
This searchable site presents an "archive of materials dedicated to Boccaccio's masterpiece." Materials include the text of the "Decameron," a timeline of Boccaccio's life, and information about the plague, music, art, society, religion, and other topics related to the book. Also includes maps and a bibliography. Some material available in Italian. From Brown University. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml Topics: Authors by Region, Infectious Diseases, Literature by Place Last updated Mar 3, 2004 The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968
A view of 1968, created thirty years later by students at South Kingston (RI) High School through interviews with Rhode Islanders. Find transcripts, audio, and edited stories about topics such as the Vietnam War, civil rights, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Also find essays, a timeline of events, a glossary, and a bibliography. A joint product between the high school and Brown University. http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Feb 1, 2006 The Archive of Early American Images
"A database of pictures of the colonial Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825." The archive "is intended to assist historians in their quest for contemporary images to illustrate their research findings and to facilitate the study of historical images ... in proper context." From the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html Topics: United States History Last updated Apr 5, 2007 African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
Images of hundreds of pieces of sheet music, including "songs from the heyday of antebellum blackface minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period." Indexed by title, subject, or creator. Also includes links to essays that provide history and context. From the John Hay Library at Brown University. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/afam/ Topics: Black Resources, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Mar 7, 2006 The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection
Collection of images of the destruction caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 in Japan. The collection "includes some of the earliest photographs of the destruction taken by Americans, and consists of over 100 original photographs taken in Yokohama, Kyoto, Shanghai, and Hawaii, as well as many photographs purchased in Japan that document the devastation." Browsable by theme and object type. Includes historical essays and newspaper accounts. From Brown University Library. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/kanto/ Topics: Geology, History By Place Last updated Mar 7, 2007 Transgender Health
This document answers questions about health concerns faced by transgender college students. Some of the topics discussed include depression and anxiety, transitioning to the opposite gender, female-to-male (FTM) health topics (such as that "[i]t is still possible to become pregnant while on testosterone, although infertility occurs after continued use"), and male-to-female (MTF) concerns (such as silicone and oil injections). From Brown University Health Services. http://brown.edu/Student_Services/Health_Services/Health_Education/lgbtq_health/trans_health.php Topics: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People Last updated Sep 9, 2009 The Modernist Journals Project
This project is "intended to become a major resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study." Its website features individual issues of British and American periodicals from 1910 and 1911, literary journals from the 1890s to early 1920s, biographical sketches of artists and writers, books, articles, and related material. From Brown University and the University of Tulsa. http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8082/exist/mjp/index.xml Topics: Last updated Sep 15, 2008 |
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