Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873

Brendan C. Lindsay investigates the use of democratic government's petitions, referenda, town meetings and votes to carry out mass genocide against Californian Native Americans.  Inspired by his experience of campus resistance to the very idea that genocide had been committed, he set out to document it.  "The present is a product of the past," he contends.  Democratic actions, "perpetrated by democratic, freedom-loving U.S. citizens in the name of democracy, but really to secure great wealth in the form of land," built the state on a foundation of blood and theft.  The author hopes a work of history will illuminate California’s political questions of today, and make clear that democracy is no guarantee against the worst human behavior.

Brendan C. Lindsay is a lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida.  He holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Riverside.

Joseph Chmura
Assistant Director and Access Services Librarian

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October Break!

If you are staying in the area, you might want to check out these local delights--

Glass Farmers Market at The Corning Museum of Glass:
http://www.cmog.org/event/glass-farmers-market

The Finger Lakes Cheese Trail Columbus Day Weekend Open House:
http://flcheesetrail.com/

Enjoy!

New Arrival: Golden Holocaust

From the inside cover:

"In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor [Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University] draws on reams of formerly secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely used drug on the planet, selling six trillion sticks per year."

Just by picking up this rather heavy and heavily documented book, you feel at once as if you are both wiser and more tarnished for the effort.  With over 100 pages of notes, a timeline of global tobacco mergers and acquisitions and a lexicon of industry jargon, you realize that Proctor's aim isn't so much to convince as it is to logically impress.  As if to say, what could be more obvious than the devious nature of big tobacco?  And now, for the solution!  As a culture that (sometimes) resists anything so Orwellian as bans and prohibitions and totalitarian belt-cinching, his argument may be difficult to embrace.  He has certainly succeeded in coaxing you to try.  

For a more detailed review by Peter Monaghan in The Chronicle of Higher Education:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/smoking-out-tobacco/30192

Jennifer Nace, Research and Instruction Librarian

New Library Chat!

You will notice that our library chat service looks a little different.

Do you need research help? Try chatting with a Reference Librarian. You can chat with us from any computer that is connected to the Internet, no matter where you are!

We’re available during these hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10 am – 10 pm
Friday: 10 am – 5 pm
Saturday: Offline
Sunday: 1:00 pm - 5:00pm, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

You can also add our Jabber username to your Buddy List/Chat List:
Jabber username: hws-library@chat.libraryh3lp.com

See our Library Chat page for more information: http://library.hws.edu/chat/

We hope to chat with you soon!!

Finding Your Passion

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” - Julia Child

     This August marks, what would have been, Julia Child’s one-hundredth birthday.   As she is fêted in the media, that unforgettable face and voice have been a recurring backdrop of this summer. Child left a rich and varied cultural legacy - from a generation of inspired chefs, to a classic Saturday Night Live spoof.  While Child is perhaps best known for her television work, her passion for French cooking first took the form of teaching, and the production of a classic instructional text: Mastering the Art of French Cooking (TX719 .B388).  

      This summer, responding to the need to create more growth space for the collection, we rearranged over eight miles of books.  It is humbling to think that we have moved not only dusty books, but miles of ideas and expressions waiting to ignite another generation’s passions and interests.  Welcome - and I hope that the Library’s collection will proffer something that will inspire your passion.

~ Vince Boisselle, Director of the Library 

Your Research Wordle Exposed!

The students come to the Reference Desk with a variety of topics that they are researching.  Here is the spring semester's Wordle, reflecting the eclectic nature of scholarly research at HWS. 

Wordle created by Emily Hart, Reference and Instruction Librarian