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Use the blue tabs, above, or the Table of Contents in the middle column to find:

reference works (literary biography, encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.);
journal articles (peer-reviewed), scholarly books (monographs); and
primary works of literature and history (e.g., authors' correspondence).

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Featured E-Book

Humanities in the Time of AI by Laurent Dubreuil
Call Number: Gitenstein Library E-BOOK

ISBN: 9781452972800

Publication Date: 2025-04-01

"If humanistic research consists of the generation of consensus positions, simple expression, summarized texts, or passable translations, then we have arrived at the place where AI is able to accomplish these different missions to a convincing degree. However, Laurent Dubreuil argues, such tasks do not, in any way, constitute the humanities. On the contrary, he posits, a maximalist take on scholarship would not focus on generation but on creation, as a subject and as an object. Dubreuil seizes the opportunity of what AI reveals about the meaning of humanistic inquiry to offer a path for the renewal of the humanities on transhistorical, transcultural, and transdisciplinary grounds" (Project MUSE).

Featured Primary Source Databases

Global Commodities New!
Gitenstein Library database

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Global Commodities consists of primary documents relating to the history of 15 commodities: chocolate (cacao), coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, wine and spirits. Document types include advertisements, company records, correspondence, diaries, leaflets, maps, mercantile papers, paintings, pamphlets, port records, prices current, private papers and scrapbooks among others. The collection can be searched by theme (e.g., advertising and consumption, production, trade and commerce). Other features include a chronology for each commodity, data and visual resources. This collection will be useful for assignments on the Early Atlantic World, British colonialism, etc.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice New!
Gitenstein Library database

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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice — “Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together [primary] documents from libraries and archives across the Atlantic World, covering an extensive time period from 1490” (database homepage).
Highlights include: African forts and the Gold Coast; Materials on Brazil; Education and social justice; Family Papers, Correspondence, Bills and Plantation Journals; Local court records relating to slavery; Resistance and Revolts; Testimony of enslaved people; Slavery in the Early Americas; Songs that recall the Transatlantic Slave Experience; Urban Slavery in New York and Philadelphia; The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania; Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade

Don't miss the Primary Sources Online page of this libguide. It features all of the library's primary source databases arranged by country, topic, and source type (e.g., newspapers); a selection of primary sources in library e-books; and vetted primary sources available on the open web. See also this list of Gitenstein Library primary source databases.