The Michigan State University Libraries has created this digital collection to highlight a range of books, periodicals, posters, and ephemera that deal with various radical movements in the United States. The materials here are divided into twelve different headings, including "Rosenberg Case", "I.W.W.", "Hollywood Ten", and "Black Panthers". The "Hollywood Ten" area is a good place to start as it...

As Latinos continue to be the fastest growing segment of the US population, more and more of them are attending college. One concern is that they are also the least likely to graduate from college. This latest documentary from the American RadioWorks group explores the challenges and opportunities faced by Latino students seeking a college degree in the 21st century. Visitors can listen to the...

Greatly revised and expanded since its last Scout Report mention, (March 13, 1999) Ken Middleton's American Women's History: A Research Guide includes over 2100 citations to print and Internet sources and hundreds of links to digitized primary sources, as well as frequent updates and link checking to ensure the currency of cited resources. The Research Guide now consists of 4 main sections: an...

Getting a handle on what the phrase “globalization” means can be a bit like trying to lasso a fast-moving cloud. Does globalization mean the cross-pollination of different musical styles? Is it the vast geographical expansion of major multinational corporations into remote locales? Well, of course, it’s both of these things and quite a bit more. In a paper that appeared in the Autumn 2006 edition...

Social scientists may be particularly interested in Being Black in the EU, a report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Released in November 2018, this report "outlines selected results from FRA's second large-scale EU-wide survey on migrants and minorities ... [and] examines the experiences of almost 6,000 people of African descent in 12 EU Member States." Among this...

Recognizing that "a traditional probabilistic survey sample…often fails to fully represent populations whose experiences are important to understanding the complexity of Black life," Black Futures Lab (an organization committed to "building Black political power" at all levels) launched the Black Census Project in 2018. Using both online surveys and in-person outreach, the project has since become...

One of the ambitions of service groups like Chicago's Hull House was to provide urban youth with an opportunity to get out and experience some clean fresh air. The Hull House on Chicago's Near West Side took children from the surrounding neighborhood out to the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club every year from 1912 until 1963. The Club was financed by social activist and philanthropist Louise deKoven...

Arriving in the Sudirman mountain range in New Guinea in 1926, Matthew Stirling and his anthropologist colleagues from the Netherlands and the United States embarked on an expeditionary mission to document the lives of the so-called "pygmy" tribes of this region of the world. Eighty years later, Paul Michael Taylor of the Asian Cultural History Program at the National Museum of Natural History...

In this online gallery of the British Library, they have taken an interesting approach to highlighting one of their collections. They asked Mike Phillips, an author and historian born in Guyana, to comment and react to their large British West Indies collection. There are illustrations, maps, and pages of text from books written during the period of colonization, all with explanations and...

On August 2, 1790, the United States conducted its first census, pursuant to Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. In the 230 years since, many changes have been made to the census – from its schedule to its counting process to its questions. Sno-Isle Libraries's Census Historical Timeline chronicles many of these changes and key events in U.S. Census history. The timeline is...