Month: May 2018

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide 3

Posted on by Tracy Dimond

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Over the next few weeks we will be posting about texts you can check out from the Humanities and Fine Arts departments at Central Library. For more information about the month please click here.

Within the guide you will find some authors who are Asian-Canadian. We decided to expand to include such authors because there are so many countries and cultures included within the term “Asian,” and Canada and the US are both part of North America. Check out the poetry titles here and theatre and comedy titles here.

Click on a cover to reserve your copy today!

Humanities: Comics and Graphic Novels

Have you checked out one of these titles? If so, let us know on social media and tag it #atthepratt.

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide 2

Posted on by Tracy Dimond

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Over the next few weeks we will be posting about texts you can check out from the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments at Central Library. For more information about the month please click here.

Within the guide you will find some authors who are Asian-Canadian. We decided to expand to include such authors because there are so many countries and cultures included within the term “Asian,” and Canada and the US are both part of North America. Check out the poetry titles here.

Click on a cover to reserve your copy today!

Humanities: Theatre

Humanities: Comedy

Have you checked out one of these titles? If so, let us know on social media and tag it #atthepratt.

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide

Posted on by Tracy Dimond

Happy Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Over the next few weeks we will be posting about texts you can check out from the Humanities and Fine Arts Departments at Central Library. For more information about the month please click here.

Within the guide you will find some authors who are Asian-Canadian. We decided to expand to include such authors because there are so many countries and cultures included within the term “Asian,” and Canada and the US are both part of North America.

Click on a cover to reserve your copy today!

Humanities: Poetry

Have you checked out one of these titles? If so, let us know on social media and tag it #atthepratt.

 

 

The Catonsville Nine: 50 Years Later

Posted on by Meghan McCorkell

View the digital files of the Catonsville Nine trials on Digital Maryland

Courtesy: Herman Heyn

On May 17, 1968, nine men and women entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland.  They removed several hundred draft records, and burned them with homemade napalm in protest against the war in Vietnam. The nine were arrested and, in a highly publicized trial, sentenced to jail.

This act of civil disobedience intensified protest against the draft.  It prompted debate in households in Maryland and across the nation.  It stirred angry reaction on the part of many Americans. The act also propelled the nine Catholic participants – especially priest brothers Daniel and Philip Berrigan – into the national spotlight.

Courtesy: Digital Maryland

The Catonsville action reflected not only the nature of the Vietnam antiwar movement in 1968, but also the larger context of social forces that were reshaping American culture in the 1960s.

Fifty years later, you can view historical documents linked to the Catonsville Nine on Digital Maryland, including photos, videos, and court records.

On Saturday, May 19 at 2pm the Edmondson Avenue Branch will hold a movie screening and discussion of “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.”

Digital content contributed by Cornell University Library, Friends of the Catonsville Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library, Herman Heyn, Dean Pappas, Lynne Sachs and University of Baltimore Library.

It’s Preakness Week!

Posted on by Meghan McCorkell

Learn more about the history of Horse Racing in Maryland on Digital Maryland

“Back Again” Horse Race at Pimlico, May 1948

The Hays-Heighe House Horse Racing Photographs Collection contains one color and twenty-one black and white montages of race day photographs.  The photos were taken between 1934 and 1951 of prize-winning horses raised and trained at Prospect Hill Farm once owned by Robert H. and Anne Heighe of Harford County, Maryland.  That Farm is now the campus of Harford Community College.

Laurel Race Course, October 1951

 

 

Once the manor house for the Heighes, the Hays-Heighe House maintains the archives of Prospect Hill Farm.  They’ve also maintained archives of the thoroughbreds raised by Mrs. Heighe that raced at tracks in Maryland and as far away as Long Branch outside of Toronto, Canada and Tropical Park in Miami, Florida. The collection is also associated with two trainers prominent in Harford County and Maryland racing who worked for the Heighes, Jack Boniface and Joe Mergler.

Check out the photos and much more on Digital Maryland.