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08/29/2025

Zachary Brown

Criminal Justice, Economics, General and Interdisciplinary, Reference, Data

Need data or statistics? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Data and statistics on alcohol use; deaths and mortality; healthy aging; life expectancy; and more - www.cdc.gov/nchs

Need data or statistics? United States Census Bureau - Data on population, economy, education, employment, and more - www.census.gov

Need data or statistics? F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting Program - The U.C.R.'s Crime Data Explorer is an interactive online tool that provides data on crime, law enforcement officers killed and assaulted, hate crime statistics, and nation use-of-force incidents - www.cde.ucr.cjis.gov

Welcome Back - Resources

08/28/2025

Zachary Brown

Library

Resources: WorldCat.org is the world's largest network of library content and services that lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

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08/27/2025

Zachary Brown

Library

Resources: A TexShare Card allows you to borrow items from participating libraries throughout the state of Texas. TexShare cards eligible for currently enrolled UNT Dallas students and UNT Dallas faculty and staff. TexShare Cards issued at the library front desk (Student Center - third floor). Please have your ID ready.

Welcome Back - Library Resources

08/26/2025

Zachary Brown

Library, Research Help

Resources: HeinOnline contains more than 173 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and governmental documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.

Resources: Scopus is a comprehensive abstract and citation database that allows users to find relevant and trusted research, identify experts, and access reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools.

Welcome Back - Library Resources

08/25/2025

Zachary Brown

Library, Research Help

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Resources: EBSCO EDS provides users with a streamlined search of multiple databases through a single search box.

Resources: ProQuest Central is a periodical resource that includes major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

America: Government, History, & Culture - eBooks

07/10/2025

Zachary Brown

History, Media Arts

E-book titled When They Hid the Fire: A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America (2017) - synopsis: When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became an invisible and abstract form of energy in American society. As technological advancements allowed for an increasing physical distance between power generation and power consumption, the commodity of electricity became consciously detached from the environmentally destructive fire and coal that produced it. This development, along with cultural forces, led the public to define electricity as mysterious, utopian, and an alternative to nearby fire-based energy sources.

E-book titled Dead Funny: The Humor of American Horror (2023) - synopsis: Dead Funny locates humor as a key element in the American horror film, one that is not merely used for extraneous “comic relief” moments but often serves to underscore major themes, intensify suspense, and disorient viewers. Each chapter focuses on a different comic style or device, from the use of funny monsters and scary clowns in movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street to the physical humor and slapstick in movies ranging from The Evil Dead to Final Destination. Along the way, humor scholar David Gillota explores how horror films employ parody, satire, and camp to comment on gender, sexuality, and racial politics.

America: Government, History, & Culture - eBooks

07/08/2025

Zachary Brown

History, Media Arts, Music, Women and Gender Studies

E-book titled Atomic Tunes: The Cold War in American and British Popular Music (2021) - synopsis: What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers aspects of these world-changing events that documentaries and history books cannot. In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians coping with the effect of communism on American society and the threat of a nuclear conflict of global proportions.

E-book titled Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Esther Deberdt Reed and the American Revolution (2017) - synopsis: At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed was one of the most politically important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise “The Sentiments of an American Woman” articulated the aspirations of female patriots, and the Ladies Association of Philadelphia, which she founded, taught generations of women how to translate their political responsibilities into action. DeBerdt Reed’s life yields remarkable insight into the scope of women’s political influence in an age ruled by the strict social norms structured by religion and motherhood. The story of her courtship, marriage, and political career sheds light both on the private and political lives of women during the Revolution and on how society, religion, and gender interacted as a new nation struggled to build its own identity.

America: Government, History, & Culture - eBooks

07/06/2025

Zachary Brown

Communication Studies, Criminal Justice, History, Journalism, Women and Gender Studies

E-book titled Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms (2019) - synopsis: Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyer Jim Ward, the newspaper took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s. The newspaper won both cases and established First Amendment rights that significantly broadened public access to the judicial system. Justice in Plain Sight is a unique story that, for the first time, details two improbable journeys to the Supreme Court in which the stakes were as high as they could possibly be (and still are): the public’s trust in its own government.

E-book titled Sympathy, Madness, and Crime: How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business (2016) - synopsis: Working against critics who would deny them access to the newsroom, Margaret Fuller, Fanny Fern, Nellie Bly, and Elizabeth Jordan subverted the charge that women were not emotionally equipped to work for mass-market newspapers. They transformed their supposed liabilities into professional assets, and Sympathy, Madness, and Crime explores how, in writing about insane asylums, the mentally ill, prisons, and criminals, each deployed a highly gendered sympathetic language to excavate a professional space within a male-dominated workplace. As the periodical market burgeoned, these pioneering, courageous women exemplified how narrative sympathy opened female space within the “hard news” city room of America’s largest newspapers.

America: Government, History, & Culture - eBooks

07/04/2025

Zachary Brown

Ethnic Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology

E-book titled Nation Within: The History of the American Occupation of Hawai'i - synopsis: In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i and established a government modeled on the Jim Crow South. In Nation Within Tom Coffman tells the complex history of the unsuccessful efforts of deposed Hawaiian queen Lili’uokalani and her subjects to resist annexation, which eventually came in 1898. Exposing the myths that fueled the narrative that native Hawaiians willingly relinquished their nation, Coffman shows how Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt conspired to extinguish Hawai’i’s sovereignty in the service of expanding the United States’ growing empire.

E-book titled Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration (2018) - synopsis: Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the 20th century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various groups—employers, colonial officials, court officers, and labor leaders—policing the borders of the U.S. economy and polity. Borderline Citizens deftly shows the dynamic and contested meaning of American citizenship. At a time when colonial officials sought to limit citizenship through the definition of Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory, Puerto Ricans tested the boundaries of colonial law when they migrated to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland. The conflicts and legal challenges created when Puerto Ricans migrated to the U.S. mainland thus serve, McGreevey argues, as essential, if overlooked, evidence crucial to understanding U.S. empire and citizenship.

America: Government, History, & Culture - eBooks

07/02/2025

Zachary Brown

History, Political Science, Sociology

E-book titled The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life (2016) - synopsis: The earliest two-wheeler, the draisine, arrived in Philadelphia in 1819 and astonished onlookers with the possibility of propelling themselves “like lightning.” Two centuries later, the bicycle is still the fastest way to cover ground on gridlocked city streets. As bicycling caught on in the nineteenth century, many of the country’s rough, rutted roads were paved for the first time, laying a foundation for the interstate highway system. Cyclists were among the first to see the possibilities of self-directed, long-distance travel, and some of them (including a fellow named Henry Ford) went on to develop the automobile. Women shed their cumbersome Victorian dresses—as well as their restricted gender roles—so they could ride. And doctors recognized that aerobic exercise actually benefits the body, which helped to modernize medicine.

E-book titled Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics (2018) - synopsis: Author Jesse Berrett explores pro football’s place in the zeitgeist of the 1960s and 1970s. The NFL’s brilliant harnessing of the sports-media complex, combined with a nimble curation of its official line, brought different visions of the same game to both Main Street and the ivory tower. Politicians, meanwhile, spouted gridiron jargon as their handlers co-opted the NFL’s gift for spectacle and mythmaking to shape a potent new politics that in essence became pro football. Governing, entertainment, news, elections, celebrity—all put aside old loyalties to pursue the mass audience captured by the NFL’s alchemy of presentation, television, and high-stepping style. An invigorating appraisal of a dynamic era, Pigskin Nation reveals how pro football created the template for a future that became our present.

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