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NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and ‘The March’ [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964601 2006 PEN/Faulkner Winners http://penfaulkner.org/winners.htm Wired for Books: Audio Interview with E.L. Doctorow [Real Player] http://wiredforbooks.org/eldoctorow/ A Cloud of Dust: John Updike Reviews “The...

Established in 1956 on the campus of Rutgers University, the Eagleton Institute of Politics is dedicated to exploring state and national politics through research, education, and public service. Under the directorship of Professor Ruth B. Mandel, the Institute contains a number of centers and programs, such as the Center for American Women and Politics and the Center for Public Interest Polling....

The Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling (ECPIP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics has been conducting regular polling in New Jersey since 1971. For over two decades, the ECPIP also worked with the Star-Ledger newspaper to conduct surveys on a range of topics of interest to New Jersey citizens. This website, provided by the Rutgers University Library, provides access to the survey data...

The University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections group recently created this compelling collection of early advertisements culled from their Special Collections Division. The collection contains over 450 print advertisements published in local magazines, city directories, and theater pamphlets from 1867 to 1918. The collection is quite catholic, as it features advertisements about...

A significant amount of intellectual hand wringing has gone on as of late regarding the nature and importance of early childhood intervention programs. Some have claimed that such programs (including Head Start) are inherently a waste of money, while others tout their apparent ability to increase future educational and life opportunities, particularly for the under-privileged. This intriguing...

Archaeologists, planners, architects, and urbanologists alike all enjoy a good fire insurance map, and this excellent digital real estate atlas collection from the New York Public Library will be one that they will want to visit repeatedly. This collection brings together real estate maps created by William Perris who surveyed Manhattan and Brooklyn extensively during the 1850s and 1860s. The maps...

A number of collaborative online projects have developed during the past few years that draw on the resources of institutions and individuals that are frequently separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of miles. This website, which features early seventeenth-century political poetry, is just such a project. The team of collaborators includes professors from both Rutgers University and the...

Many aspects of history can be examined through the use of visual materials, and certainly the emerging relationship between the United States and Korea is no exception. Drawing on a collection of photographs and sketches executed by Willard Dickerman Straight in 1904 and 1905, this comprehensive exhibit from Cornell University uses these materials to create “a visual and contextual narrative of...

Humans have been wandering around Washington for thousands of years, and over the millennia, some of these people created maps based on their journeys. This excellent digital collection from the Washington State University (WSU) Libraries brings together almost 1,000 maps that document the area's history. As the introduction to the collection notes "By studying these past maps we find - hidden...