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American Religious Responses to the Holocaust Course

Dr. Maria Mazzenga — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:31:31 +0000

The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives and the Catholic University Department of Education announce a new professional development course for Catholic High School teachers to be held on the campus of Catholic University and at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The course, American Religious Responses to the Holocaust, will run from July 8-12, 2013. For details, see American Religious Responses to the Holocaust Course.

Need a break before midterms?

Jennifer Adams — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:57:30 +0000

Reading for fun is a great way to de-stress. Why not check out a title from the Popular Reading collection in Mullen Library? We have over 300 books of all genres, both fiction and nonfiction — there’s something for everyone!

Some of our newest titles are listed below. Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is shown beside the call number. All Popular Reading books are shelved in the Main Reading Room on Mullen 2nd Floor:

Title	Author	Status
1356: A Novel	Cornwell, Bernard
Congressman Lincoln: The Making of America’s Greatest President	DeRose, Chris
The Dude and the Zen Master	Bridges, Jeff & Glassman, Bernie
The Fifth Assassin	Meltzer, Brad
Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We Are	Flora, Carlin
Ignorance: A Novel	Roberts, Michee
Insane City	Barry, Dave
The Last Runaway	Chevalier, Tracy
A Memory of Light	Jordan, Robert & Sanderson, Brandon
My Beloved World	Sotomayor, Sonia
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People	Banaji, Mahzarin R. & Greenwald, Anthony G.
Calling Me Home	Kibler, Julie
Crystal Cove	Kleypas, Lisa
Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time With John Lennon and Yoko Ono	Cott, Jonathan
Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table	Stelzer, Cita
The Dinner: A Novel	Koch, Herman
The Future: Six Drivers Of Global Change	Gore, Al
The Genius Of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think	Hare, Brian & Woods, Vanessa
The House Girl	Conklin, Tara
How Literature Saved My Life	Shields, David
Man in the Empty Suit	Ferrell, Sean
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker: A Novel	Chaverini, Jennifer
The Real Jane Austen: A Life In Small Things	Byrne, Paula
A Week in Winter	Binchy, Maeve

Looking for more options? You can always see a full list of our Popular Reading books in the catalog, by searching under keyword, “CUA Popular Reading.” Happy reading, and good luck on your midterm exams!

New Popular Reading for the new semester

Jennifer Adams — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:59:26 +0000

Start your semester off right with a selection from Mullen Library’s Popular Reading collection! Some of our newest titles are listed below. Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is shown beside the call number. All Popular Reading books are shelved in the Main Reading Room on Mullen 2nd Floor:

Title	Author	Status
Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids	Jennings, Ken
The Book of Mormon: The Testament of a Broadway Musical	Parker, Trey & Lopez, Robert
Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice	Baxter, Stephen
E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	Heylin, Clinton
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland	Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah”	Light, Alan
A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths	Fletcher, Tony
Living with Honor: A Memoir by America’s First Living Medal of Honor Recipient Since the Vietnam War	Giunta, Sal
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes	Konnikova, Maria
The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn’t, What Shouldn’t Make You Happy, but Does	Lyubomirsky, Sonja
On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks	Garfield, Simon
Open Heart	Wiesel, Elie
Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity	Tabor, James D.
Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice	Gibson, Larry S.

Don’t see anything you like? There are plenty of other choices available. Try browsing the Popular Reading shelves in the Main Reading Room, or see a full list of our Popular Reading books in the catalog, by searching under keyword, “CUA Popular Reading.” Happy Reading!

Unigenitus cataloging project update

Lenore Rouse — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:52:32 +0000

Three hundred early eighteenth-century French and Latin titles from the Albani collection, many of them the only exemplars in the United States, are now cataloged and available to researchers in Rare Books and Special Collections (214 Mullen). A sampling of their content may be found at the RBSC blog: http://ascendonica.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to our 2013 Mohler Grant Winners!

Dr. Maria Mazzenga — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:59:33 +0000

Deborah Beckel, Ph.D., has been awarded a Mohler grant for her project examining women and the Knights of Labor in the South. She is the author of Radical Reform: Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North Carolina (University of Virginia Press, The American South Series, 2011). Originally from Georgia, Beckel received her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College, her masters’ degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. from Emory University. She has worked as a librarian and archivist, and as a documentary editor. A resident of Virginia, she previously taught women’s and gender studies at Sweet Briar College and currently teaches history at Lynchburg College.

For his work examining the Protestant image in the Catholic mind William Cossen will receive a Mohler grant in 2013. Mr. Cossen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and a member of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at The Pennsylvania State University, studying under the direction of Philip Jenkins and Amy Greenberg. His dissertation is currently titled “The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind,” and it will examine the construction of Protestant identity by American Catholics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Mr. Cossen is the recipient of a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from Emory University in 2008 and a Master of Arts degree with honors in History from Penn State in 2012.

The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives accepts applications for Mohler Travel Grants every year. For more information on the Mohler Grants, see: http://archives.lib.cua.edu/Mohler.cfm

Looking for some relaxing end-of-semester reading?

Jennifer Adams — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:40:54 +0000

Look no further than Mullen Library’s Popular Reading collection! We have a wide variety of both fiction and non-fiction books on all different topics. Below are some of the newest additions to the collection. Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is also shown beside the call number. All Popular Reading books are shelved in the Main Reading Room on Mullen 2nd Floor:

Title	Author	Status
1775: A Good Year for Revolution	Phillips, Kevin
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder	Taleb, Nassim
The Chronicles Of Downton Abbey	Fellowes, Jessica & Sturgis, Matthew
Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman	Humes, James C. Foreword by John Spencer-Churchill
Fear: Essential Wisdomfor Getting Through the Storm	Hanh, Thich Nhat
The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth And The Human Imagination	Guerrieri, Matthew
Great Expectations:The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens	Gottlieb, Robert
The Guerrilla Factory: The Making Of Special Forces Officers, The Green Berets	Schwalm, Tony
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers	Lamott, Anne
Life Among Giants: A Novel	Roorbach, Bill
Mad Science:Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and DiscoveriesThat Made Our World	Alfred, Randy, ed.
Notes to the Future:The Authorized Book of Selected Quotations	Mandela, Nelson; introduction by Desmond Tutu
Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity	Tabor, James D

Want more options? You can always see a full list of our Popular Reading books in the catalog, by searching under keyword, “CUA Popular Reading.” Happy reading!

Research Guide on Film, Cinema, Radio & Television

Jennifer Adams — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:01:45 +0000

Jennifer Adams, Kevin Gunn, and Sean Hogan have created a new research guide on Film, Cinema, Radio & Television. Included on the guide are article databases and indexes, reference texts, biographies, review sources, and information on adaptations across the areas of film and cinema, radio, and television studies, as well as a selection of catalogs, script sources, and other resources specific to each of these subjects. You will also find information on searching CUA’s own media collections.

Latest Popular Reading Titles

Jennifer Adams — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:24:35 +0000

Looking for something fun to read over Thanksgiving? Check out the library’s Popular Reading collection. Below is a list of the newest additions to the collection. Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is also shown beside the call number. All Popular Reading books are shelved in the Main Reading Room on Mullen’s 2nd Floor:

Title	Author	Status
Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy	Watt, Judith
Assholes: A Theory	James, Aaron
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies	Thomson, David
City of Saints	Hunt, Andrew
Custer	McMurtry, Larry
Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War	Standiford, Les
Drinking Water: A History	Salzman, James
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version	Pullman, Philip
The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden	Bowden, Mark
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity	Wilken, Robert Louis
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors, Vol. 1 (The History of England)	Ackroyd, Peter
Friendkeeping: A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can’t Live Without	Klam, Julie
The Great Charles Dickens Scandal	Slater, Michael
Hallucinations	Sacks, Oliver W.
I Want to Kill the Dog	Cohen, Richard
Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen	Sharratt, Mary
Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris	Scott, Jennifer L.
Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother	LaPlante, Eve
No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle for Bastogne	Barron, Leo & Cygan, Don
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined	Khan, Salman
Stardust	Gaiman, Neil
Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London	Jones, Nigel H.
Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?	Henig, Robin Marantz & Henig, Samantha

Research Guide on Medieval Philosophers

Taras Zvir — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:22:27 +0000

Taras Zvir in Religious Studies and Humanities Services has created a research guide on Medieval Philosophers. This guide is intended to become a starting point for students, scholars, and researches to philosophers of medieval times (AD 400 – 1400). It lists prime sources and selected secondary sources, and any other applicable materials on a given philosopher such as companions, biographies, or bibliographies.

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Bring up the Bodies wins the 2012 Man Booker Prize

Kevin Gunn — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:04:38 +0000

Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Man Booker Prize for Bring up the Bodies. An overview of the book is on the Man Booker web site. Writers from the British Commonwealth and Ireland are eligible.

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