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- Creator:
- Jenkins, Foster H.
- Description:
- American Classics Facsimile Series II
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- [none]
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Parkman, Francis
- Description:
- American Classics Facsimile Series VIII
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- [none]
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Block, Irving and Perkins, David
- Description:
- [From Introduction] It was a time of war. The twin demons of fear and hate had put these people of Japanese descent behind barbed wire in an obscure part of Wyoming. Consisting of a one-square-mile enclosure of barbed wire surrounding approximately six hundred barracks, the camp held a population of more than twelve thousand at its maximum. These camps came into being as the result of a series of decisions that began less than three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor catapulted the United States into World War II. Presidential Executive Order No. 9066 authorized the evacuation and exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific Coast of the United States. The order was followed, a month later--in March 1942--by Presidential Executive Order No. 9102 which created the War Relocation Authority (WRA) and mandated the internment.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 0-937048-32-1
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Kramer, William M.
- Description:
- Hans Burkhardt is in love with America, deeply for what it is, and even more profoundly for what it can become. In some ways he almost suppresses his Swiss origins with a speech that still reflects them. He has been a prophet without honor in Switzerland, and though he has maintained artistic friendships there, he thinks American. He is an American painter and in an artistic sense but certainly not politically, an America- Firster. "It is the American people who have given me a good life." Not only has Burkhardt, who is well represented in museums and private collections by purchase, given some of his important works to the University at Northridge and elsewhere, but he has also been a patron of the arts, buying works by fellow artists as well as by his students. It has been said of Burkhardt that more than any other man he has been responsible for bringing the concepts of modern art to the Pacific Slope. I respect that judgment, but I think his contribution to the culture of America's West will be rather that of a man who has been sensitive to all the great periods of art and joined them in the collective memory of his brush.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 0-937048-34-8
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Nykamp, William and D'Ambrosio, Joseph
- Description:
- Preface: Some Terms Defined: The words infidelity, orthodoxy, and heterodoxy are of course subject to a number of definitions; in this book they are used essentially as the clergy of the late 1700's would use them. Infidelity is used as a term describing the offense of those men who denied the Trinity, the virgin birth and miracles. It does not necessarily become the equivalent of the term atheist. Orthodoxy is used broadly to designate those who continued to hold the fundamental doctrines of the Christian religion; secondarily, it is used to designate the New England Congregation clergy. Heterodoxy carries much the same meaning that has been assigned to infidelity. When the terms "reason" and "rational" are used to denote the attempt of the human mind to produce a theology without reference to special revelation, i.e., the Bible, they will be enclosed in quotation marks. This is the usage of contemporary theologians.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 0-937048-38-0
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Mayhew, Jonathan and Tanis, Norman E.
- Description:
- Introduction: Charles W. Akers in his book, Called Unto Liberty, entitles the chapter on Unlimited Submission, "A Catechism of Revolution." This small pamphlet was just that. lt is appropriate in celebrating the United States Bicentennial to remember that there was a generation before the American Revolution which prepared the way for this course of action. These precursors were more often than not clergymen--usually from New England. Notable among this group was Jonathan Mayhew who, in Unlimited Submission and in The Snare Broken (1766), on the Stamp Act, helped prepare the seedbed of the American Revolution. Unlimited Submission was reprinted several times in the Eighteenth Century but the facsimile version that follows is the first edition to which John Adams referred Fourth of July orators who "really wish to investigate the principles and feelings which produced the Revolution." John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, " ... This discourse was reprinted a Year before l entered Harvard College and I read it, till the Substance of it was incorporated into my Nature and indelibly engraved on my Memory." ln this work, Mayhew takes a stand on the right of the governed to remove their tyrants forcibly when they do not serve the public good. He stated further that a king can only exercise power which a constitution gives him and his subject swears to obey him only when he exercises this kind of limited power. Additionally, the king must refrain from infringing on the legal rights of his people. Fully twenty-five years before the Declaration of Independence, Jonathan Mayhew made it clear that the citizen of Massachusetts had a duty to resist a repressive prince and, in effect, enter into a contract with his King. By stating this, Mayhew had prepared the seedbed of the American Revolution. [Norman E. Tanis]
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- [none]
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Wetmore, Charles A.
- Description:
- Introduction: Charles A. Wetmore's report on the Mission Indians of Southern California .. To be an appropriate publication for the Northridge Facsimile Series. This reprint is supported by the Bibliographic Society of our University as an historical document worthy of republication in a limited edition of 500 copies. It is from California State University, Northridge Libraries' Special Collections Department. Norman E. Tanis
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- [none]
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Description:
- All the following stories and poems were written by students at San Fernando Valley State College and California State University, Northridge, and all were published in various literary magazines edited and produced by students on this campus. The works appearing in this special collection, drawn from thirty-six separate publications, were selected for their excellence by an editorial board of creative writing teachers in the CSUN English Department. This anthology, covering the period from 1962 to 1988, presents a literary portrait of people who live, study, and work in Southern California, an unfolding emotional panorama of their attitudes and concerns. Though the works appear in chronological order, they have been arranged to suggest certain dramatic sequences or clusters of ideas and images about our experiences during the past twenty-six years with family, friends, and lovers in the San Fernando Valley and its environs.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Bakewell, Dennis C.
- Description:
- [From Introduction] This list of books appears on the first anniversary of the initiation of a Department of Afro-American Studies at San Fernando Valley State College. This department was among the first, and has been one of the more successful, of a number of similar programs in colleges and universities across the country formed in answer to rapidly growing interest in this area. The Library is happy to be able to make this contribution to the program's continuing growth. The bibliography is not intended to be definitive. It is simply a selection, from the Library's holdings, of titles of value in the study of the black experience in the United States. Space limitations made it impossible to expand it to include material on the Negro elsewhere. In the Library, but not included in this list, are major collections in microform containing much valuable research material. Among these is, for early writings by and about Negroes, the complete text on microcards of the titles in the American Bibliographies of Charles Evans and R. R. Shaw. For other materials on abolition and the pre-Civil War period, Oberlin College Library's catalog of its collection of anti-slavery propaganda should be consulted; here also the Library can supply complete texts on microcard. In the field of education, indexes to research reports from ERIC (Educational Research Information Center) should be consulted; complete text of these reports is available on microfiche in the Library. The Library of Congress classification scheme, used by this library to organize its collection, has been retained in this bibliography. The table of contents breaks the classification down to a degree which should enable the user to locate titles of interest to him without undue difficulty. The place of publication, if not otherwise specified, is New York City. When the title listed is a reprint edition the original date of publication, in parentheses, follows the date of the Library's copy. The book's Library of Congress classification number is at the end of each entry. Those assisting in the preparation of this bibliography are too numerous to mention by name. Perhaps it is best simply to acknowledge that members of the administration, faculty, staff, and student body all contributed, and appoint individuals to represent these groups; James Cleary, President of the College and President of the College Foundation, offered encouragement from the beginning. Eugene Bostic, Co-Director of the Educational Opportunities Program; Tiyo Soga, Acting Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department; Elizabeth Butler, Ethnic Studies Bibliographer; Mary Sciacca, Catalog Librarian; and Bill Huling, Audiovisual Services, offered advice and assistance in their various ways. Eileen Sales prepared the final typescript, and Debbie Joyce did the bulk of the preliminary checking and typing. Finally, Norman Tanis, College Librarian, must be thanked for his interest and encouragement. D.C.B.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- [none]
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Perkins, David, Tanis, Norman E., and Vaish, Harish
- Description:
- Introduction: Until recently, American education has tended to focus its attention on Western culture and history. However, current economic and political affairs have demonstrated the increasing interdependence of countries. The development of a broadly based understanding of non-Western cultures and history is becoming increasingly important. Unfortunately, academic and public libraries serving undergraduate and high school students do not, in most cases, have the staff to make the most advantageous selection of supportive materials from the many published about Asia. It is hoped that this bibliography of approximately 2700 books about India and its peoples will be a step toward alleviating this situation. The bibliography also represents the deep and growing interest in Indian affairs at California State University, Northridge. In our view, a bibliography based on our book holdings on Indian affairs should be of value in aiding the meaningful exchange of ideas between India and America. It should assist the American student or scholar working on Indian topics as well as the Indian student or scholar contemplating exchange programs or pursuing the view of their people from an American perspective.
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Identifier:
- 0-8357-0555-2
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge