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Click here for the NCAIHC American Indian Heritage Month Toolkit!
The toolkit contains:
The North Carolina American Indian Heritage Commission, established in 2021, advises the Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources on preserving, interpreting, and promoting American Indian history, arts, customs, and culture. The commission collaborates with state-recognized tribes and urban Indian organizations to enhance cultural visibility and understanding.
Additionally, the commission supports events like the annual North Carolina American Indian Heritage Celebration, which honors the state's indigenous heritage.
Join us for the Fall DEI Book Club discussion of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride in-person and online Friday November 8th, 9-10:30am in Holt Library Room 112. Refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by Holt Library and the SCC Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. For more information or help getting a copy of the book, contact: library@southwesterncc.edu
The State Library has been collecting resources shared by trusted government entities and has compiled them on their Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief Resource page. This resource will be continuously updated as other resources are shared or come available.
We at Holt Library are excited to welcome our new and returning students to another great fall semester at Southwestern Community College! Fall is not only a great time of year for watching seasons change, but also for seeing so many of our students begin or continue their journey to success.
As always, the folks at Holt Library are here to support you with resources and assistance. Whether you need help with research, finding sources, printing, or just a quiet place to study (or take a break from studying!) come visit us any time!
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Have a great semester, and we’ll see you soon!
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America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear that occupy our thoughts almost constantly. Seeking out valid answers in this cacophony can be confusing and deeply frustrating. In this book, historian Michael D. Gambone provides case studies of popular conspiracy theories in America from the past 100 years, from Protocol of the Elders of Zion to #stopthesteal. He offers an approach, based on basic logic and historical case studies, not designed to win arguments, but to help reads separate truth from the avalanche of nonsense descending on us every day. In each case, Gambone outlines the conspiracy claim, provides historical context for the conspiracy, presents evidence of the conspiracy claim and analyzes the claim, context, and evidence. Modern Conspiracies in American History will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in American history and those seeking to become better informed consumers of news in an era when social media spreads misinformation widely and quickly
Karida L. Brown's Gone Home offers a much-needed corrective to the current white-washing of Appalachia. In telling the stories of Appalachian African Americans living and working in steel and coal towns, Brown offers a deep and sweeping look at race, the formation of identity, changes in politics and policy, and black migration in the region and beyond
Mania. Throughout centuries, the word has been synonymous with madness, fury, rage and frenzy. Although its meanings have shifted over time, the word has remained connected, even in clinical descriptions, to the same madness and rage. As a result, it is profoundly affecting individuals living with medical and psychological conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety. In her latest book, Manic Minds: Mania's Mad History and its Neuro-Future, Lisa Hermsen, associate professor and chair of RIT's English department in the College of Liberal Arts, traces the multiple ways in which the word "mania" has been used by popular, medical and academic writers. She also explains the way medical professionals analyzed the manic condition during the 19th and 20th centuries and shares stories of contemporary people living with mental illness. "Today, we don't classify people using the terms lunacy, insanity or melancholy, but the word 'mania' still appears as a diagnosis," says Hermsen. "The problem with the word 'mania' is that it carries madness with it. Mania lingers and can't be shaken. The purpose of this book is to talk about what kind of language we can use to change how we think about madness. The word mania and the baggage that comes along with it interfere with people's ability to manage their disorders
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Homer to Neuroscience traces the extensive array of answers that various groups have provided to questions about the nature of mental illness and its boundaries with sanity. What distinguishes mental illnesses from other sorts of devalued conditions and from normality? Should medical, religious, psychological, legal, or no authority at all respond to the mentally ill? Why do some people become mad? What treatments might help them recover? Despite general agreement across societies regarding definitions about the pole of madness, huge disparities exist on where dividing lines should be placed between it and sanity and even if there is any clear demarcation at all. Various groups have provided answers to these puzzles that are both widely divergent and surprisingly similar to current understandings
Sarah Bakewell's book explores the diverse and evolving concept of humanism, which has been shaped by philosophers, writers, and activists across history. From ancient figures like Plato and Confucius to modern thinkers such as Michel de Montaigne and Harriet Taylor Mill, and artists like Zora Neale Hurston, humanism centers on the cultural and moral dimensions of human life. Bakewell celebrates this rich ambiguity, highlighting its importance in understanding our cultural and learning pursuits, and making her contribution to its extensive philosophical discussion.
The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped the world-and in many ways, never left. But who was the "boy king," and what was his life really like?0 Garry J. Shaw tells the full story of Tutankhamun's reign and his modern rediscovery. As pharaoh, Tutankhamun had to manage an empire, navigate influential courtiers, and suffered the pain of losing at least two children-all before his nineteenth birthday. Shaw explores the boy king's treasures and possessions, from a lock of his grandmother's hair to a reed cut with his own hands. He looks too at Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's wife, and the power queens held. This is a compelling new biography that weaves together intriguing details about ancient Egyptian culture, its beliefs, and its place in the wider world.
Helen J. Nicholson surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope Gregory VII first proposed a penitential military expedition to help the Christians of the East, and 1570, when the last crusader state, Cyprus, was captured by the Ottoman Turks. It considers women's actions not only on crusade battlefields but also in recruiting crusaders, supporting crusades through patronage, propaganda, and prayer, and as both defenders and aggressors. It argues that medieval women were deeply involved in the crusades but the roles that they could play and how their contemporaries recorded their deeds were dictated by social convention and cultural expectations. Although its main focus is the women of Latin Christendom, it also looks at the impact of the crusades and crusaders on the Jews of western Europe and the Muslims of the Middle East, and compares relations between Latin Christians and Muslims with relations between Muslims and other Christian groups
In 1993, Michael Azerrad published Come as you are: the story of Nirvana, which stands as the definitive biography of Nirvana, the legendary band that upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. Written with the band's complete cooperation--the only book to feature interviews with singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic, and drummer Dave Grohl--it became a massive bestseller, translated into fourteen languages. Seven months after the book's original publication, Cobain was dead by suicide, making Come as you are the only book-length record of the inner life and creative mind of one of the most significant songwriters and musicians in rock history. Now, Azerrad has revisited and reconsidered his original text. Vivid, evocative, and thought-provoking, this "amplified" version is a truly unique and exciting book within a book.
Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reached new heights. Loneliness assumes many forms, from enduring physical isolation to feeling rejected because of difference, and it can have devastating consequences for our physical and mental health. As the founder of Project UnLonely, Jeremy Nobel unpacks our personal and national experience of loneliness to discover its roots and take steps to find comfort and connection. Dr. Nobel leverages many voices, from pioneering researchers, to leaders in business, education, the arts, and health care, to the lived experience of lonely people of every age, background, and circumstance. He discovers that the pandemic isolated us in ways that were not only physical, and that, at its core, a true sense of loneliness results from a disconnection to the self. He clarifies how meaningful reconnection can be nourished and sustained. And he reveals that an important component of the healing process is engaging in creativity. Make things! Supportive, clear-eyed, and comforting, this is the book we will take into our new normal and rely on for years to come
A photographic celebration of contemporary Native American life and an examination of important issues the community faces today by the creator of Project 562, Matika Wilbur
"Dopamine Nation" by Dr. Anna Lembke delves into the scientific relationship between pleasure and pain, exploring how modern life's overstimulation—from social media to shopping—impacts our well-being. The book illustrates through patient stories and accessible neuroscience how compulsive consumption leads to suffering. Lembke offers insights on managing dopamine levels to achieve balance, illustrating that true contentment comes from moderation and recovery wisdom, making it a vital guide for navigating today's digital landscape.
In eighteenth-century North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge - an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community grew, so did its demand for labor, and Moravians began buying slaves to help build and operate their farms, ships, and industries. The Moravian Brethren believed in the universalism of the gospel and baptized dozens of African Americans, who became full members of tightly knit Moravian congregations. For decades, white and black Brethren worked and worshiped together, far removed from the sprawling plantations to the east. Black Moravians spoke, read, and sang in German, played Moravian music on classical instruments, and shared communal dormitories with white Moravians. According to Jon Sensbach, the Moravian social experiment demonstrated the fluidity of race in an age when Revolutionary rhetoric championed the rights of man - even though white Brethren never abandoned their belief that black slavery was ordained by God.
