History & Biography

This companion volume to a New York Public Library exhibition traces Jack Kerouac's tumultuous and often traumatic journey from his working-class boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to New York City, where he, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs would become the fathers of the Beat movement, and beyond. Drawing on journals, diaries, manuscripts, and typescripts in the Library's Jack Kerouac Archive--material never before seen by the general public, and only a very small proportion of which has been seen even by scholars--Beatific Soul explores Kerouac's evolution as a writer and his spiritual passage from Christianity to Buddhism and back again.

The lives of British women were transformed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- the period we now call the Romantic era. In the wake of the French Revolution, political equality and something like a sexual revolution for women seemed possible, and thanks in part to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the legal and social restrictions under which women lived were briefly but hotly contested. But by the time Victoria inherited the throne in 1837, different, gentler changes had occurred -- ones that inspired poetry, plays, and paintings as well as new ways of understanding feminine roles and sexuality.

This vividly illustrated 

Compiled by Zora Kipel and Vitaut Kipel, in cooperation with Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences. This bibliography of Belarusian serials in the West records Belarusian-language and Belarus-related publications in other languages, produced outside of Belarus--mainly in Western Europe, the Americas, and Australia--from the mid-19th century through the year 2000 inclusive. It lists 414 magazines, newspapers, bulletins, and other serial publications, alphabetically by title. Each entry includes title, place of publication, name of editor(s) (when available), inclusive numbers and dates for ceased publications, and an open date for currents. Short-run periodicals are enumerated and 

September 11, 2001, distinguished Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. The pattern began in 1814, when the British attacked Washington, burning the White House and the Capitol. This early violation of homeland security gave rise to a strategy of unilateralism and preemption, best articulated by John Quincy Adams, aimed at maintaining strength beyond challenge throughout the North American continent. It remained in place for over a century. Only when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 did the inadequacies of this strategy become evident: as