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History and Current Events September 2018
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A History of Tinker Air Force Base Saturday, September 22, 1:00 pm Choctaw Library (2525 Muzzy St) Special Collections Librarian Lisa Bradley will share the history of Tinker Air Force Base. Photos and other materials related to Tinker will be on display at the Choctaw Library.
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An Evening with the Author: Stephen H. Norwood Wednesday, October 10, 7:00 pm Downtown Library (300 Park Ave), 46th Star Room (4th floor)When American Universities Betrayed the Jews
During the 1930s, many American universities, including the most prominent, forged friendly ties with Nazi Germany. They warmly welcomed high Hitler regime officials to campus and enthusiastically participated in student-exchange programs with Nazified universities in Germany. American universities provided Nazi officials and Nazi exchange students with a platform to disseminate virulent antisemitic propaganda. This talk will also contrast the significant American Jewish grassroots protest against Nazi antisemitism with campus complicity and quiescence. Stephen H. Norwood (PhD Columbia University) is Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of five books, including The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies, and Antisemitism and the American Far Left, both published by Cambridge University Press. He is the editor, with Eunice G. Pollack, of the prize-winning two-volume Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. Please pre-register for the event by clicking the "An Evening with the Author..." link.
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| The Fighters by C.J. ChiversWhat it's about: Part of a team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, Chivers walked the walk with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq for over a dozen years. Now a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine, he won the 2017 -Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for "The Fighter." Here he expands on that piece to detail the courage and camaraderie, suffering and moral confusion of the fighters he met.
Digital Formats: Available as an eBook and eAudiobook from OverDrive. |
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| The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna ClarkWhat it's about: the ongoing man-made water crisis that has afflicted residents of Flint, Michigan since April 2014 and to date has resulted in 12 deaths.
Why it's significant: Detroit-based journalist Anna Clark pulls no punches in this compelling call to arms, utilizing extensive research to show how racial inequality, housing segregation, and government underfunding led to this "decades-old, slow-burn emergency."
Digital Formats: Available as an eAudiobook from OverDrive. |
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| Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul CollinsWhat it's about: On November 23, 1849, Boston physician George Parkman disappeared after making his rounds at Harvard Medical College. His dismembered body was later discovered in the lab of chemist John White Webster, spawning an infamous murder trial that produced legal and forensic precedents.
Don't miss: this evocative and atmospheric true-crime account includes appearances from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Digital Formats: Available as an eBook and eAudiobook from OverDrive. |
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| Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'BrienWhat it is: an intriguing, richly detailed history of five women (including Amelia Earhart) who competed in the national air races of the 1920s and 1930s -- and changed aviation forever.
For fans of: Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures and its film adaptation.
Reviewers say: "A vivid, suspenseful story of women determined to defy gravity -- and men -- to fulfill their lofty dreams" (Kirkus Reviews).
Digital Formats: Available as an eBook from OverDrive and always available as an eAudiobook from hoopla. |
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| The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South by John T. EdgeWhat it is: an engaging history of Southern cuisine and its relationship to sociopolitical history and gentrification.
Don't miss: stories of African American cooks feeding marchers during the Montgomery bus boycotts.
Is it for you? Whether you're a foodie or someone who appreciates social and regional histories, there's something for everyone to savor in this sweeping ode to Southern foodways.
Digital Formats: Available as an eBook from OverDrive. |
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| Ten Restaurants That Changed America by Paul FreedmanWhat it is: an approachable and entertaining history profiling ten restaurants located throughout the United States, highlighting their impact on American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What's inside: photographs, paintings, menus, and recipes.
Did you know? Delmonico's, pictured on the cover, was America's first à la carte restaurant, opening in New York City in 1827.
Digital Formats: Available as an eAudiobook from OverDrive and always available as an eAudiobook from hoopla. |
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| Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael RuhlmanWhat it's about: In this lively survey, cookbook author and food writer Michael Ruhlman offers an absorbing look at the history of grocery stores and how they embody shifting mores about consumption and sustainability.
Want a taste? "Because they are a reflection, even symbol, of our culture, and thus a gauge of who we are, supermarkets illuminate what we care about, what we fear, what we desire."
Digital Formats: Available as an eAudiobook from OverDrive and always available as an eBook from hoopla. |
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| A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Jane Ziegelman & Andrew CoeWhat it is: a thought-provoking exploration of how the Great Depression transformed American cuisine, supplemented with primary documents including recipes and menus.
Book buzz: A Square Meal won the James Beard Foundation Book Award in 2017.
Reviewers say: "Even if the period cuisine doesn't make the reader's mouth water, the vivid recreation of American eating at a historical crossroads is engrossing" (Publishers Weekly).
Digital Formats: Available as an eBook from OverDrive and always available as an eAudiobook from hoopla. |
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eResources at your Library
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HeritageQuest Online
Search U.S. Federal Census images (1790-1940), genealogy and local history books, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) of genealogy and local history periodicals, pension and bounty land warrant applications from the Revolutionary War, Freedman's Bank Records (1865-1874), and the U.S. Serials Set (1789-present) which records the memorials, petitions and private relief actions made to the U.S. Congress.
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hoopla
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