"With Metabolism, postwar Japanese architects looked beyond the end of the century to the future of architecture, predicting trends that are still emerging, as a new oral history of the movement by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist finds." Come check out the book at the DI Library!

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"This online collection includes digital copies of a small selection of the more than 10,000 historic photographs of Bates College held by the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. The collection documents the life of the College from 1875-present, although the bulk of the collection runs from the early 1890s though the early 1950s. Topics covered include campus buildings, athletics, classroom activities, clubs, dorm life, theater, and many other aspects or activities of the College. There are also photographs of faculty and staff, honorary degree recipients, commencement, and class reunions."

"The Jack Sheaffer Photograph Digital Collection contains over 10,000 images that document the photographic history of southern Arizona during a time of explosive growth in the area, from 1955 - 1975. Jack Sheaffer photographed both major and minor events that made up the history of southern Arizona during the last half of the twentieth century. His subjects included in this collection, ran the gamut from politics and sports, to annual civic events like the Tucson Rodeo, and from celebrity visits and tragic accidents, to local beauty pageants."

"Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, videogames, restaurants, basketball, and special effects."

"This site contains a large collection of railroad pictures."

"From the special collections of the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Branch Library, this collection spans from the earliest years of the motion picture industry to the World War II era."

"Selected travel posters of exotic destinations are from the collection housed in the International Languages Department and Rare Books at Central Library. The artwork finely demonstrates the sensibilities of 1920s and 1930s Art Deco and early Futurism."

"Over 1,300 bookplates commissioned by people who wished to identify the books in their personal libraries through a unique work of art. The collection includes a wide variety of graphic and illustrative styles, both color and black and white, ranging from the formal to the whimsical."

"Over 6,200 hand-colored, finely detailed fashion illustrations produced between 1780 and 1880 for British and American fashion magazines. The plates depict fashionable styles of dress for men, women and children, and constitute valuable source material on the history of dress during this period in history."

"Images of full menus are primarily from California restaurants, but the collection also includes menus from other cities, steamships, airlines, and banquets."

"A collection of over 200 vibrantly-colored labels, designed for citrus growers throughout Southern California, mainly during the first half of the twentieth century. Many of the labels illustrate specific locations in the region, and are an excellent example of commercial graphic design from the period, as well as documenting the industry itself."

"The map collection is over one hundred years old, contains more than 100,000 items and represents a wide scope, including local, national and international cartography. The online archive focuses on maps depicting Los Angeles and the West."

"The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection emphasizes the history of Los Angeles, Southern California, and California."

"New Mexico Waters contains historical source materials about rivers, irrigation, ecology, and the economic impact of water resources on communities in New Mexico, primarily along the Rio Grande."

"children need to be taught explicitly how to use social media, just as we would teach them to drive a car. In particular, we need to teach them how their online presence reflects three things: (1) how they want to be perceived; (2) who they want to be; and (3) their influence on the world. Here’s more about each of them."

"'The Magic of America,' a typescript of over 1,400 pages with approximately 650 accompanying illustrations, was written and compiled by Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1961), architect, designer, delineator, and artist. In 1911 she married Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937), architect, landscape designer, and city planner. Their architectural practice spanned almost four decades on three continents, and "The Magic of America" was meant, in part, to be a testament to their life and work together."

The videos on this site (5 to 20 minutes each) "present current findings on language processing, drug treatment and addictions, and cognitive development throughout the life span. The programs also cover mood and personality disorders, and pain and its treatment."

"The Pennsylvania State University Libraries have acquired several thousand videotapes, reports, and photographs that were generated during the successful cleanup and recovery of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear reactor. The materials reflect the work done during the 1979 – 1990 time period." You can read the full text of any of the reports, but only one video is available to view online (the "Clean-up Highlights Video", 24 min).

"A collection of printed Pennsylvania town views, portraits, maps, and historical scenes. Through a combination of donation and purchase from the collectors John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager, this collection of 330 prints came to the Palmer Museum of Art in 1986. It includes lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by artists of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. These prints offer a unique glimpse into Pennsylvania's past."

Residential and non-residential architecture of A. William Hajjar, built in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1969, President Richard Nixon created the Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities that marked the beginning of a successful initiative to recruit and train women for upper-level governmental positions. This website includes audio files and text transcripts of interviews with some of the women who joined the government as a result of this initiative, along with a historical timeline and reports and other documents from the era to put the women's stories in context.

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Find information about Islam and Islamic communities in the United States and around the world.

Find information about Islam and about Islamic communities around the world.

Read the full text of the Qur'an in English on the Islamic Society of North America's website.

This site includes primary source documents such as letters and articles.

A collection of more than 30,000 images of billboards and other forms of outdoor advertisements.

Ration Coupons on the Home Front, 1942-1945. Shows how the U.S. government controlled and conserved vehicles, typewriters, sugar, shoes, fuel, and food.

Photographs, articles, flyers, planning documents, and responses to the 1968 and 1969 Miss America pageant protests, the events that launched Women's Liberation in the public consciousness.

Transcript of a U.S. officer's diary about the American invasion and occupation of the Philippine Islands.