Clemente Emergency Library
Titles for The Clemente Course in the Humanities from the National Emergency Library,
via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card
Curated by Jim Cocola, Academic Director, Clemente Worcester
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Critical Thinking ๐ค |
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Literature ๐๏ธ |
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U.S. History ๐บ๐ธ |
The Clemente Course in the Humanities, a 2014 National Humanities Medalist, serves hundreds of adults around the country each year. Many Clemente students pursue much of their academic work in the nation's public libraries, which are now largely closed. With support from Bard College and state humanities councils including Mass Humanities, Clemente instructors in Worcester and across the nation are looking to provide students and alumni with digital access to materials that can help further their educations. Here are some relevant titles from the National Emergency Library, via archive.org, freely available with the use of a virtual library card. |
Art History ๐๏ธ
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| E. H. Gombrich, The Story of Art (New York: Phaidon, 1995) | Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, and Susan Stirling, The Art Book (New York: Phaidon, 1996) | Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 2nd ed., Vol. I (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002) | Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 2nd ed., Vol. II (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002) |
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| Aristotle, Rhetoric and Poetics, trans. W. Rhys Roberts and Ingram Bywater (New York: Modern Library, 1984) [4th c. BCE] | William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, 3rd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1979) | Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose (New York: Vintage, 1979) | Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987) |
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Literature ๐๏ธ
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| Maynard Mack, ed., The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, 5th ed. (New York: Norton, 1987) | Sophocles, Antigone, trans. Richard Emil Braun (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) [5th c. BCE] | Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan, eds., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) | Benjamin R. Foster, ed. and trans., The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation, Analogues, Criticism (New York: Norton, 2001) |
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| William Blake, Songs of Innocence (Mineola: Dover, 1971) [1789] | William Blake, Songs of Experience (Mineola: Dover, 1971) [1794] | Miguel Algariฬn and Miguel Pinฬero, eds., Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings (New York: Morrow, 1975) | David Bromwich, ed., American Sonnets: An Anthology (New York: Library of America, 2007) |
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| Plato, The Dialogues of Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett (New York, Random House, 1937) [4th c. BCE] | Michael L. Morgan, ed., Classics of Moral and Political Theory, 3rd ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1992) | Mortimer J. Adler, Adler's Philosophical Dictionary (New York: Touchstone, 1996) | Edward Craig, Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) |
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| James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996) | Eric Foner, Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (Boston: Hill and Wang, 2002) | Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present (New York: Perennial Classics, 2003) | John Mack Faragher, Mari Jo Buhle, Daniel Czitrom, and Susan H. Armitage, Out of Many: A History of the American People (Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009) |