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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 80 YEARS AGO: “Orson Welles – The All American Bogeyman,” Evening Star, Oct. 31, 1938

On October 30, 1938, the radio-listening public was brought to near-hysteria by the evening broadcast narrated by 23-year old Orson Welles of an adaption of the H.G. Wells classic ‘War of the Worlds.” According to newspapers around the country the next day, the dramatization “threw the public into an uproar when listeners believed flocks of nasty little men from Mars had smashed down into the State of New Jersey and were wiping out civilization…” Police stations and newspaper offices were inundated with calls from the public and telephone switchboards overloaded, while others evacuated their homes and apartment buildings, fearing the worst. Read more about it and the aftermath and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 100 YEARS AGO: "Menu and Recipes for Your 'Victory' Thanksgiving Dinner," The Evening World, Nov. 26, 1918

Just a few weeks after the the signing of the armistice with Germany on November 11, 1918, ending military action in World War One, Americans prepared to celebrate their traditional Thanksgiving with new appreciation for a "day of thankful prayer... and joyous feasting." Although still restricted by wartime rationing, the Evening World (New York, NY) asked chefs of major New York City hotels to contribute their best recipes to honor the Allied leaders responsible for victory and the war's end....Read more about it and try some Roast Turkey a la Pershing! For more Thanksgiving recipes see our recent Headlines and Heroes blog for "10 Thanksgiving Recipes You May Not Have Tried" and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

 




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Join the National Digital Newspaper Program in 2019! Applications due Jan. 15, 2019

from on Twitter: Be part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a digital resource of newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. Applications due Jan 15:




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 86 YEARS AGO: “Popular Popcorn,” The Midland Journal, February 17, 1933

In honor of National Popcorn Day on Jan. 19, here’s a quick rundown from 1933 of some fun ways to incorporate more grains into your diet! There’s of course the traditional style of popcorn for snacking, “popped while you wait, with a generous pour of melted butter and a big shake of salt” according to the Midland Journal (Rising Sun, MD). But why not enjoy some popcorn “merrily floating on the surface of creamy soups,” or combine popcorn, cheese, and mayonnaise for cheeseballs in a fruit salad! Read more about it, check out some recipes and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate International Women's Day With Us!

Celebrate International Women's Day today with us and explore how change-making women in American history appeared in the contemporary news using the Chronicling America historic newspaper collection. Our most recent post in Headlines and Heroes highlights fifteen amazing American women, including Clara Barton, Ida B. Wells, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, of course, investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Use the linked Recommended Topic guides to learn more about them and make your own discoveries. Read more about them and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! (May 15)

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Have you made America’s favorite cookie recently? How about trying out this 1940 recipe from the Roanoke Rapids Herald (Roanoke Rapids, NC)? Chop your own chocolate and read more about it! Follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate 15 Million Pages with Us! Find Out More and Join our Twitter #ChronAmParty Today (May 21)!

Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” things we’ve discovered in Chronicling America – feel free to celebrate with us and tweet your own discoveries! Just add #ChronAmParty and #15MillionPages to your tweet to join the party!

We’ve also been working on new ways to explore and visualize what’s available in Chronicling America and have included a sneak peek in Headlines and Heroes and a more in-depth explanation of these tools in the Library’s The Signal digital libraries blog. Understand and interact with our newspapers in a different way using maps, time-based views, charts of language and ethnic press in American newspapers and more!

Read more about it and follow us all the time on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 75 Years Ago: “ALLIES SMASHING INLAND,” The Wilmington Morning Star, June 07, 1944

Across the world on June 7, 1944, newspapers rushed to press with the first word on the Western Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy in France. For days before, front pages in the homefront news were filled with word of Allied battles on all fronts with hints of an imminent invasion of the French coast. Finally on June 7, news arrived… “ALLIES SMASHING INLAND” declared the Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, DE). Follow the headlines from issue to issue and read more about it! (And then follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!)




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Integrating sustainability planning and the environmental review process / Carol Lurie, Matthew Egge, VHB Inc., in association with Environmental Science Associates, Inc., American Infrastructre Development Inc., Changing Climates Consulting, Ralph Thomp

Barker Library - TD195.A36 L87 2019




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The myth of Silent spring: rethinking the origins of American environmentalism / Chad Montrie

Hayden Library - GE197.M66 2018




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A language of things: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American environmental imagination / Devin P. Zuber

Dewey Library - GE197.Z83 2019




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Unaffordable: American healthcare from Johnson to Trump / Jonathan Engel

Hayden Library - RA395.A3 E546 2018




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Mongrel firebugs and men of property: capitalism and class conflict in American history / Steve Fraser

Dewey Library - HC110.C3 F73 2019




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The fall of a great American city / Kevin Baker ; foreword by James Howard Kunstler

Dewey Library - HC107.N7 F35 2019




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Sustainable development and social responsibility.: proceedings of the 2nd American University in the Emirates International Research Conference, AUEIRC'18 - Dubai, UAE 2018 / Miroslav Mateev, Jennifer Nightingale, editors

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The Oxford handbook of American economic history / edited by Louis P. Cain, Price V. Fishback and Paul W. Rhode

Dewey Library - HC103.O98 2018




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Overripe economy: American capitalism and the crisis of democracy / Alan Nasser

Dewey Library - HC103.N37 2018




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Authenticity guaranteed: masculinity and the rhetoric of anti-consumerism in American culture / Sally Robinson

Dewey Library - HC110.C6 R628 2018




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The forgotten Americans: an economic agenda for a divided nation / Isabel Sawhill

Dewey Library - HC106.84.S29 2018




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Imperial metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the borderlands of American empire, 1865-1941 / Jessica M. Kim

Dewey Library - HC108.L55 K56 2019




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Pioneers of African-American cinema /

Hayden Library - PN1995.9.N4 P56 2016




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American native /

Hayden Library - E184.R3 A4 2015




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Cheshire, Ohio: an American coal story in 3 acts

Hayden Library - HD9685.U6 O3 2017




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A good American /

Hayden Library - PN1995.9.D6 G66 2017




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2012 ASHRAE handbook : heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning systems and equipment / American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc

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American drug index 2014 / [Norman F. Billups, Shirley M. Billups]




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Handbook on injectable drugs / American Society of Health-System Pharmacists®




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Beginning and intermediate algebra / Margaret Lial, American River College, John Hornsby, University of New Orleans, Terry McGinnis

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Essentials of college algebra / Margaret L. Lial (American River College), John Hornsby (University of New Orleans), David I. Schneider (University of Maryland), Callie J. Daniels (St. Charles Community College)

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Introductory and intermediate algebra / Margaret L. Lial, American River College, John Hornsby, University of New Orleans, Terry McGinnis

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Introduction to computational linear algebra / Nabil Nassif, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Jocelyne Erhel, INRIA, Rennes, France, Bernard Philippe, INRIA, Rennes, France

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Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane

Last week, the APA released a study finding that Americans were experiencing the first statistically significant stress increase in the surveys 10-year history. In January, 57 percent of respondents of all political stripes said the U.S. political climate was a very or somewhat significant source of stress, up from 52 percent who said the same thing in August.

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From Main Street to mall: the rise and fall of the American department store / Vicki Howard

Dewey Library - HF5465.U5 H69 2015




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J.C. Penney: the man, the store, and American agriculture / David Delbert Kruger

Hayden Library - HF5465.U6 P454 2017




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Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing / Pamela Walker Laird

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The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists / Ann Lee Morgan

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Unnamable: the ends of Asian American art / Susette Min

Rotch Library - N6538.A83 M56 2018




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Shifting grounds: landscape in contemporary Native American art / Kate Morris

Rotch Library - N8213.M696 2019




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The Cambridge companion to Latina/o American literature / edited by John Morán González

Hayden Library - PQ7081.A1 C347 2016




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Masquerade and social justice in contemporary Latin American fiction / Helene Carol Weldt-Basson

Hayden Library - PQ7082.N7 W43 2017




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Incomparable empires: modernism and the translation of Spanish and American literature / Gayle Rogers

Hayden Library - PQ6073.M6 R636 2016




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The great Latin American novel / Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Brendan Riley

Hayden Library - PQ7082.N7 F78513 2016




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Kill the Ámpaya!: the best Latin American baseball fiction / edited and translated by Dick Cluster

Hayden Library - PQ7087.E5 K55 2016




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Writing the Apocalypse: historical vision in contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora

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Science and American foreign relations since World War II / Greg Whitesides, University of Colorado, Denver

Dewey Library - JZ1254.W45 2019




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Hans J. Morgenthau and the American experience / Cornelia Navari, editor

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Rethinking the American antinuclear movement / Paul Rubinson

Dewey Library - JZ5584.U6 R83 2018




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Why Wilson matters: the origin of American liberal internationalism and its crisis today / Tony Smith

Dewey Library - JZ1469.S63 2017




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A new foreign policy: beyond American exceptionalism / Jeffrey D. Sachs

Dewey Library - JZ1480.S23 2018




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New visions of adolescence in contemporary Latin American cinema / Geoffrey Maguire, Rachel Randall, editors

Hayden Library - PN1993.5.L3 N49 2018