Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Digital Library
For Black History Month, the Digital Library features its Pearl City Oral History Collection. Pearl City was Boca Raton’s pioneering African-American community. One of the featured interviews is with Ms. Lois Dolphus Martin where she describes her 1930s segregated school experience at Roadman’s Elementary School, the first school in Pearl City.
The Roadman Elementary School
The school [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 by janestrudwick
Studs (Louis) Terkel, broadcaster and oral historian, born May 16 1912; died October 31, 2008
See ChicagoTribune Obituary
Over 40 years ago Studs Terkel began a conversation with the American people, asking them to expose their everyday lives. He tenderly and truthfully told our story (the
American and the human) throughout his career as broadcaster and writer. His [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by MarisHayashi
Week of September 8, 2008
News Item: The presidential campaigning season is in full swing. Candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States have been officially nominated by their respective parties. Now, they will travel the country and present their platforms before voters head to the polls on November 4th.
The American Campaign: [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by janestrudwick
“The journal content previously available on Blackwell Synergy is now being delivered through Wiley InterScience www.interscience.wiley.com due to the merger of Wiley-Blackwell’s online journal systems. Blackwell Synergy is no longer operating.”
According to the Wiley site, this is just the first phase of a total integration of products. For now, Blackwell Reference is on the same platform, [...]
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