{"id":849,"date":"2008-10-22T07:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=849"},"modified":"2008-10-21T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T18:26:43","slug":"history-faculty-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/849","title":{"rendered":"History faculty speak!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The History Dept.&#8217;s colloquium series lectures take place in <strong>White Hall, room 6C, from 3:45-5 p.m.<\/strong> Here&#8217;s the schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Oct. 22: Matthew Lange<\/strong> (Languages &amp; Literatures) talks about \u201cBerlin\u2019s \u2018Cathedrals of Commercialism\u2019: Cultural Confrontations with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Department_stores#History\">Department Store<\/a> up to the Great War\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nov. 17: Mark Boulton<\/strong> (History) talks about \u201cRambo and the Dixie Chicks: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_war\">Vietnam War<\/a> Films and the Public Discourse on Patriotism During Wartime\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 9, 2009: Deborah Wilk<\/strong> (Art) talks about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney\">Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney<\/a>, Modernism, Immigration and the Americanization Movement\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 30: Molly Patterson<\/strong> (History) talks about \u201cSwashbucklers, Ruffians, and Brigands: A Brief History of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piracy\">Piracy<\/a> in the Arabian Gulf.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>April 20: Rebecca Shrum<\/strong> (History) talks about \u201c35 Years of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr._Coffee\">Mr. Coffee<\/a>: Design, Gender, and the Unintended Consequences of Branding.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If these topics interest you, your University Library could provide additional information. For example, a search of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> would find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=d5kFAAAACAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The Vietnam War in history, literature, and film<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection DS558 .T27 2003) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Deer_Hunter\"><em>The deer hunter<\/em><\/a> (1st-floor Media Center, DVDs, PN1997 .D44 2001). A different search in the catalog would find the title <em>T<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=2riRAAAAIAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI&amp;pgis=1\">he grand emporiums: the illustrated history of the great department stores<\/a><\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, HF5465 .U5  H46). The book <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=kxGSAAAAIAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI&amp;pgis=1\"><em>Cathedrals of consumption: the European department store, 1850-1939<\/em><\/a> is available from other UWs to UWW students or staff through the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=dbPage\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a reference librarian<\/a> for assistance in finding additional materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The History Dept.&#8217;s colloquium series lectures take place in White Hall, room 6C, from 3:45-5 p.m. Here&#8217;s the schedule: Oct. 22: Matthew Lange (Languages &amp; Literatures) talks about \u201cBerlin\u2019s \u2018Cathedrals of Commercialism\u2019: Cultural Confrontations with the Department Store up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[141,178,376,231,353],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-articles","tag-books","tag-faculty","tag-history","tag-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}