Category Archives: African American Studies

Black History Month resources from ARTstor and Alabama

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Heather Martin

Explore images and history of African Americans through ARTstor (a Sterne Library database) and two Alabama digital collections. The ARTstor Blog post, “ARTstor Is . . . Black History,” highlights ARTstor content including Image of the Black in Western Art; … Continue reading →

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Have You Read a Good Picture Lately? (videos online)

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Heather Martin

Learn more about visual literacy across disciplines in the presentations from “Have You Read a Good Picture Lately? Visual Literacy Ideas and Techniques in Education.”  Sterne Library hosted a viewing of this webinar from Ohio University on September 23, 2011. … Continue reading →

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Black History Month playlist from Alexander Street Press

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Heather Martin

In honor of Black History Month, Alexander Street Press is offering a free playlist of related recordings from its music databases.  Visit http://goasp.it/blackhistory or scan the QR code to the left with a smartphone or other mobile device to hear … Continue reading →

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ARTstor goes mobile

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Heather Martin

Check out new ARTstor Mobile (beta) for iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch.  “The mobile site allows registered users to search, browse, and view previously created image groups” (ARTstor Mobile instructions). UAB students, faculty and staff can register for a … Continue reading →

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Newly-discovered writings from Dunbar and Twain

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Heather Martin

The discovery of unpublished work by authors Paul Laurence Dunbar and Mark Twain has made the news in the last few weeks.  An article in the Dayton Daily News relates the separate discoveries in Cincinnati, OH, and Dayton, OH, of … Continue reading →

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Black History Month lecture (February 9, 4 p.m.)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Heather Martin

The Friends of Sterne Library are hosting a Black History Month lecture “Revisiting ‘Uncle Tom’: Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Race, Economics, and Education in the South“ presented by Dr. Bertis English. Dr. English is Associate Professor of … Continue reading →

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Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (The Langston Hughes Project)

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Heather Martin

Birmingham Museum of Art Steiner Auditorium Wednesday, February 3, 7pm FREE This evening of spoken word, jazz, and imagery correlating to Langston Hughes’ poetry is presented under the artistic direction of Dr. Ron McCurdy. Hughes’ kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite, Ask … Continue reading →

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Resources in African American history at Sterne Library

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Heather Martin

Sterne Library offers a variety of print and online sources for the study and celebration of African American history.  Here are a few examples: African American National Biography – Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Eleanor Brooks Higginbotham, this … Continue reading →

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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Heather Martin

In December 2008, Emory University released Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, which covers almost 35,000 slaving voyages from Africa to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.  From the press release: Two years in the making at Emory, … Continue reading →

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Recovering the Forgotten African Americans

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Heather Martin

While attending the Annual Conference of the American Library Association a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discuss his co-editorship (with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham) of the African American National Biography (AANB) and … Continue reading →

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