| LII.org (Home) | About LII IPL.org Suggest a Site Subscribe to New This Week Contact |
|
|
 |
|||
|
|||
|
|||
|
|
|||
Publisher: The University of Chicago The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition: New Questions and Answers 
 The Chicago Manual of Style is the preferred style guide for many writers, editors, and publishers. This FAQ answers frequent (and not-so-frequent) style questions. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/qatopics.html Topics: Communications, English Language, Literature & Books, Writing Last updated Nov 10, 2006 The University of Chicago Library: Gay and Lesbian Studies
Subject guides and annotated links to websites related to gay and lesbian studies. Includes "Contemporary Literary Authors of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Interest Writing in Western European Languages" and a guide to "over 4500 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library collections that deal primarily with gay and lesbian themes." Note: GLBT Life database only available to University of Chicago community. From the University of Chicago Library. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/gaylesb/ Topics: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered People Last updated Jan 31, 2007 Chicago Jazz Archive
Directory of links to institutions that have jazz and blues collections. Also includes archives and collections outside the United States. From the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/jazzarch.html Topics: Musical Genres Last updated Jul 16, 2006 Chopin Early Editions
This collection consists of digitized images of "over 400 first and early printed editions of musical compositions" in the University of Chicago Library's Frédéric Chopin collection. "Users can search or browse ... via a variety of data points, including titles, genres, and plate numbers." http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu Topics: Literary Movements and Periods, Music Last updated Sep 7, 2004 The Martin Marty Center: Sightings
This online publication "reports and comments on the role of religion in public life via e-mail twice a week." The site features archives of articles back to 1999 on topics such as "Pro-Life Progressivism," chaplains in the war zone, yoga and fundamentalist Christianity, "Black Theology and Womanist Theology in Conversation," and more. From the Martin Marty Center, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/ Topics: Philosophy, Religion Last updated Oct 21, 2009 Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
Excerpt from a book with diaries from World War II Japanese kamikaze pilots. Describes how "toward the end of World War II, when an American invasion of Japan's homeland seemed imminent ... a navy vice admiral, invented the tokkotai ('Special Attack Force') operation" for which kamikaze were necessary. "Of the approximately four thousand tokkotai pilots, about three thousand were so-called boy pilots. ... Roughly one thousand were 'student soldiers.'" From the University of Chicago Press. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/619508.html Topics: World War II Last updated May 1, 2008 Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History
"The purpose of this website is to disseminate knowledge and awareness of ... ancient [Mesopotamian] civilization that will lead to a better understanding of ourselves, others, and of current events for the K-12 community." Includes an interactive feature where you can curate a Mesopotamia exhibit, video clips, and background about Mesopotamian life in areas such as farming, women, literature, mathematics, religion, and warfare. From the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/ Topics: History Last updated Aug 26, 2009 The Leo Strauss Center
Website for this center promoting the study of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, whose "research stimulated significant developments in the study of ancient and modern political philosophy, American political thought (especially the founding), classics, Jewish studies, and Islamic studies, among other fields." Features a biography, bibliographies of works by and about Strauss, audio of a class taught in 1966 by Strauss, and background about the center and its collections. From the University of Chicago. http://leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu/ Topics: Philosophy Last updated Jun 26, 2009 |
|||
| Copyright © 2009, Librarians' Internet Index, LII. All rights reserved. Financial support for LII (Librarians' Internet Index) comes from the The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology and the IPL Consortium. LII is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology. |