Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Guide 4

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.

Celebrate Asian and Pacific Islanders this month by learning about their contributions to music, visual arts, and fashion. 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, theatre and comedy titles here, and comics and graphic novels here. 

 Click on a cover to reserve your copy today!

Music

Fashion

Visual Arts

Religion, Literature, and Memoir

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 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.