Tagged General Research
Simon Winchester | Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
TICKETS Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture Exuding “the comfort and charm of a beloved encyclopedia come to life” ( The New Yorker ), Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of nearly 30 nonfiction books that explore…
Angela Saini | The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
REGISTER Angela Saini is the author of Superior , an “easy-to-read blend of science reporting, cultural criticism, and personal reflection” ( Slate ) that explores the resurgence of the harmful and faulty study of race…
Ari Shapiro | The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
TICKETS In conversation with award-winning chef and restauranteur Michael Solomonov Ari Shapiro is the cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered , the most listened-to radio news program in the country. Formerly NPR’s…
VIRTUAL - Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. | Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
TICKETS In conversation with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture Your link to the Zoom webinar will be emailed 24 hours prior to the event. A professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School…
Adam Gopnik | The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
TICKETS A staff writer at The New Yorker for more than three decades, Adam Gopnik is the author of Paris to the Moon , The Table Comes First , At the Strangers’ Gate , and A Thousand Small…
Heather McGhee | The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone
REGISTER Sandra Shaber Memorial Lecture The Sum of Us , Heather McGhee’s 2021 odyssey across the American landscape of inequality, won wide acclaim for its empathetic and incisive imagining of a future that could offer more than…
Art Book Club: February
This informal art book appreciation and art making group meets twice a month: once in person in the Art Department and once online through a video-free private chat and image-sharing Slack forum. New club members can join…
Art Book Club Online: February
This informal art book appreciation and art making group meets twice a month: once a month online through a video-free private chat and image-sharing Slack forum, and once in person in the Art Department. New club members…
TrueFlix *
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Newsbank Special Reports
NewsBank's Special Reports focus on topics of current interest. They include content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested…
NewsBank Hot Topics
Trending news and hot topics for your next assignment! Hot topics covers Current Events, Business & Economics, Civics, Government, & Politics, Social Issues, Science, Technology & Health, Sports, Arts & Literature, and People in the News.
Kid's POWER Library *
Quickly find the best resources for children and students from Power Library, Pennsylvania's state run library resource center
Infotrac Newsstand (formerly National Newspaper Index)
A perfect complement to InfoTrac business, academic and general reference databases, National Newspaper Index makes it easy for researchers to locate relevant citations from five top newspapers. No longer will they need to hunt…
Informe Academico *
Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. Informe Académico supports Spanish-speaking…
GREENR - Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources *
GREENR, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, offers researchers an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies. GREENR provides news, background information, video, commentaries,…
Gale OneFile | High School Edition (formerly InfoTrac Student Edition) *
High school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political…
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Based on Greenhaven's "Opposing Viewpoints" series and supplemented with Infotrac materials.
Gale In Context: High School
"Thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 800 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio…
Gale In Context: Biography
Comprehensive online biographical reference database in the areas of literature,science,multicultural studies,business,entertainment,politics,sports,government,history,arts and newsmakers from around the world and throughout history.
Gale in Context | Middle School (formerly Research in Context) *
Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Research In Context offers…
Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone | How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research.…
Neal Gabler | Against The Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009 with Patrick Kennedy
In conversation with former congressman Patrick Kennedy Neal Gabler is the author of Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour , a “rich and insightful” ( The New York Times ) account of the figure known as the most complex…
Kerri K. Greenidge | The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Historian Kerri K. Greenidge is the author of Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter , a portrait of the post-Reconstruction civil…
George Lakey | Dancing With History: A Life for Peace and Justice
In conversation with Varshini Prakash Active in grassroot campaigns for social change for more than seven decades, sociologist and Quaker organizer George Lakey was first arrested at a civil rights demonstration in 1963 and most…
Rabia Chaudry | Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
Attorney, advocate, and podcaster Rabia Chaudry is the author of the New York Times bestseller Adnan's Story , a true-crime analysis into the 2000 conviction of a young Baltimorean for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Also the executive…
Andrew K. Diemer | Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Andrew K. Diemer is the author of The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817–1863 , an examination of the ways in which free Black Philadelphians and Baltimoreans fought to defend…
Anand Giridharadas | The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
Ellis Wachs Endowed Lecture In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition A former longtime columnist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times , Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of …
Stacy Schiff | The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
In conversation with award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tracey Matisak Acclaimed for her “balanced, perceptive, thoroughly researched and exceptionally well written” ( The New Yorker ) nonfiction portraits of historical figures,…
Charlayne Hunter-Gault | My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
In conversation with Dorothy Roberts Referred to by Jelani Cobb as “a Dean of American journalism,” Charlayne Hunter-Gault has chronicled some of the past half-century’s most important moments in Black life, culture, and politics. Often…
Anna Badkhen | Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays
In conversation with Airea D. Matthews, Philadelphia Poet Laureate and Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr With an artist’s perspective and a ground-level view of people in extremis across the world, writer Anna…
Saidiya Hartman and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor| Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
One of academia’s leading authorities on African American literature, enslavement, gender studies, and the ways in which marginalized people are excluded in historical narratives, Saidiya Hartman is a University Professor at Columbia…
Margaret A. Burnham | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
In conversation with Tracey Matisak Margaret A. Burnham is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, an initiative to document every racially motivated killing in the South between 1930 and 1970. Also a…
Camika Royal | Not Paved For Us: Black Educators and Public School Reform in Philadelphia
In conversation with Edwin Mayorga and Sharif El-Mekki For 20 years Camika Royal was a middle and high school teacher and a teaching coach for her fellow educators in Baltimore, Washington, DC, and her hometown of Philadelphia.…
Ben Macintyre | Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture “John le Carré’s nonfiction counterpart” ( The New York Times ), Ben Macintyre is the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and The Spy and the Traitor , among…
Ruth Wilson Gilmore | Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
In conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika Ruth Wilson Gilmore is largely credited with creating carceral geography, the study of how the interplay between space, institutions, and political economies shape modern incarceration. The…
Douglas Rushkoff | Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
In conversation with Kevin Werbach Acclaimed for their intersectional explorations of cyberculture, religion, currency, and politics, Douglas Rushkoff’s 20 bestselling books include Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be…
W. Kamau Bell with Kate Schatz | Do the Work!: An Antiracist Activity Book
In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill W. Kamau Bell is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award–winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell , and also directed and executive produced the recent four-part…
Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber | The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk
In conversation with Renée Chenault Fattah In The XX Edge , Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber envision a new paradigm of gender-focused investing where more women are placed in decision-making roles and able to optimize their skills…
Patrick Radden Keefe | Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
In conversation with Karen Heller, national features writer for The Washington Post, formerly a metro and features columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer , and a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary. “A master of…
Valerie Biden Owens | Growing Up Biden: A Memoir
Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture In conversation with Marjorie Margolies, President, Women's Campaign International and author of And How Are the Children?: Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood The younger sister of…