Thank you for this wonderful tradition established by the GKS, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nele Sawallisch & Julia Schwarzmeier at the University of Trier!

We are currently making these donated books available to you, so you will very soon be able to find & access them in our catalogue. 

Intrigued? If this mood with its Gothic sense of danger and its alluring romance of knowledge and history is appealing to you, then read on to learn more about dark academia - a trending sub-genre in anglophone literature and films - from The Secret History (1992), If We Were Villains (2017) to the fan-favourite thriller film Saltburn (2023), and the social media subculture it inspired!

Dark Academia as a Genre of Contemporary Fiction

Originating in works such as Peter Weir’s 1989 film Dead Poets Society and Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History, the genre still lacks a hard and fast definition. However, it can be classified as a more melancholic offshoot of the campus novel, with elements of mystery and thriller narratives and even the Gothic. Films and TV series may also count as among dark academia narratives, if they contain certain elements of plot, setting and mood. Typically, an academic institution, e.g. a prestigious university, serves as the setting for one or several crimes or tragedies, the perpetrators, motives and consequences of which are usually revealed as the plot unfolds. These events will often be a result of the characters’ studies, academic research or university rituals. Many dark academia novels thus imply a connection between crime and an individual’s misled academic ambition - or, as Maryann Nguyen puts it, the protagonists are “students who are obsessed with each other and detrimentally absorbed in their intellectual pursuits” (Nguyen 56). Sometimes, these students are members in secret societies. Some of the novels blame elitist structures at educational institutions for the ensuing destruction, or even a dysfunctional academic landscape as a whole, although this connection is not always the object of overt criticism or satire. As Maryann Nguyen argues, the violence in dark academia can spring from the characters’ transgenerational nostalgia for an illusionary safe haven of academia, “built on an illusion of elite wealth and status and thus, almost always whiteness, even if it is not overtly voiced” (Nguyen 63; 59-61).

A highly intertextual genre, dark academia often incorporates references to real and fictitious works of literature and theory, sometimes even incorporating footnotes. Some dark academia texts might also include elements of fantasy or science fiction for an additional layer of meaning, such as R. F. Kuang’s Babel (2022), while older works, like Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/91) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), are often cited as forerunners.

Social Media's Dark Academia Aesthetic: Moody Dandies in Vintage Blazers

Dark academia is not only a literary subgenre. In recent years, starting at around 2014-2015, (cf. Adriaansen; cf. Nguyen 64) it has hatched into a whole aesthetic on social media platforms Tumblr, Pinterest, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, of which reading lists are only a small part. An “aesthetic” on these platforms can be understood primarily in terms of the style of visual content, such as photographs and short video clips giving inspiration for dress and decoration choices. The fashion style of dark academia depicts young people in clothes inspired by vaguely 20th-century British or New England college wear (a bit 40s, a bit 80s or early 90s), such as tweeds, heavy knits, blazers and trenchcoats, usually in dark earthy tones. A dim colour palette is essential, mirroring the “dark” in dark academia. Interestingly, the unisex clothing choices may reflect the queerness of many characters in popular dark academia works, as well as the subgenre’s (mostly young, millennial or Gen Z) readership’s interest in non-binary gender expression. Further hallmarks of the visual language of dark academia on social media (e.g. on Pinterest moodboards) are misty landscape shots of centuries-old university buildings or the interior of libraries filled with ancient tomes, sometimes supplemented by Gothic influences such as pictures of graveyards, or references to classical Greek and Roman antiquity in the shape of marble busts, embodying the Eurocentric educational values present in many of these narratives. Fittingly, Simone Murray summarises the dark academia aesthetic as “bookish; university-based; Eurocentric; and dandyish” (Murray 349). These influences can also be seen in displays of home décor: still lifes of (pseudo-) vintage objects such as candles, old picture frames and, of course, books. Sometimes these visuals are accompanied by classical instrumental music with a melancholy atmosphere, making dark academia music playlists a popular background study music on Youtube and Spotify. The common denominator of all these stylistic elements is a vague nostalgia for a non-defined, but definitely pre-internet era sometime in the late 19th or 20th century and a celebration of an (often elitist) academic setting, albeit with an ominous, sinister or moody element to it.

Sending Selfies from My Typewriter: The Paradox of "Digital Denialism"

The rise of dark academia can be an expression of the longing of younger generations for a lifestyle temporarily or permanently inaccessible to them. Because of race and class inequality, many readers (especially in the US) are unable to realise their dreams of studying at a university. Simone Murray has therefore described the immersion in dark academia as a form of “fatalistic cosplay”, playing at being a student or scholar: “In sum, DA [=dark academia] reduces a narrow selection of European cultural history and literature to so many props in an alluring game of online identity-projection” (Murray 352; 353).

In her very nuanced article, Murray highlights a paradox at the core of dark academia: on one hand, “[o]bjects associated with analogue-era intellectualism are especially prized leitmotifs” on its moodboards, with elements of the aesthetic’s “digital denialism” going back to the ur-text The Secret History, including the deliberate idealization of old-fashioned lifestyle choices such as writing on typewriters (Murray 350; 359). On the other hand, this disdain for contemporary technology is contrasted by the dark academia community’s dominant playground, online social media, and their pronounced skill in using these online platforms (Murray 350; 358-60). It is ironic that the idealization of a non-digital lifestyle, the “slavish veneration of a pre-digital world” (Murray 353), is transported predominantly via digital ways.

Lockdown & Loss: What Attracts Young People to Dark Academia's Bookish Universe

But these very same digital tools can be employed in very positive, empowering ways. Nguyen stresses in her article that the social media fandom has reached a second peak during the Covid19-pandemic, when lockdown and the loss of physical embodiments of university life culminated in “Tiktokers – particularly college students – […] using dark academia to build community around an academic nostalgia and fantasy taken from them” (Nguyen 65). Similarly, Robbert-Jan Adriaansen writes how “[i]n lockdown, dark academia functioned as a digital and idealized replacement of academia, and physical travel restrictions were supplanted with new intellectual and historical worlds to explore: classical and Romantic authors, music, and vintage clothing.” In this context, the logical consequence of an enforced digital oversaturation is a yearning for analogue elements. For dark academia fans, using online media and venerating physical books are not necessarily in competition to each other – quite the opposite. Quoting gen Z TikToker @henry_grey_earls, whose clips have millions of views, Alaina Demopoulos attested this year for the Guardian: “‘I think people my age are craving something more authentic, and looking for something that’s real […] What’s more real than books and physical material?‘” According to research quoted in Demopoulos’s article, even non-readers are flocking to libraries to use them as free, third spaces for socializing and learning. As Demopoulos writes, dark academia, “the internet subculture obsessed with higher education and literature” and the dissemination of the aesthetic’s vibes and values play a crucial part in kindling gen Z’s love for libraries, not only for easy access to hyped titles on BookTok, but also related to fostering motivation for using them as study spaces.

Some Suggested Dark Academia Books for Students & Scholars of the Genre

Ready to explore our library as the perfect spot to get lost in a dark academia read? No involvement in murder or secret societies necessary! Or would you prefer to order your helping of campus-based thrill via interlibrary loan? Whichever way you choose, here are some suggestions to get you started – a small selection of genre classics and new additions to our collection at Göttingen State and University Library:

• Donna Tartt’s innovative debut novel The Secret History, as mentioned above, was instrumental in shaping dark academia as a literary genre. The novel starts with a reference to two murders, one concerning one of six Classics students at a prestigious New England campus, narrated in hindsight by another student of the group who is a bit of an outsider, especially class-wise. The reader soon learns what led to the deaths and what consequences follow for the remaining five. The many references to key texts of the Greek Classics underline the appeal of this novel. Tracy Hargreaves’ Reader’s Guide to The Secret History delivers a compact first introduction to the novel, its author, influences and reception.
• Marisha Pessl’s 2006 novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics already reveals its obsession with literature by its chapter names, which are titles of well-known classics. The text of this campus thriller is likewise riddled with allusions to film and fiction, reflecting narrator Blue’s education as the daughter of a smug American university lecturer. After a recent move Blue starts as a student at a private college in North Carolina, where she becomes enmeshed in a popular group of students and starts investing the death of her glamorous Film Studies teacher.
• Susanna Clarke is no novice to dark academia – her 2004 alternative history novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, set in a Regency England yearning for the return of English magic and rich with references to academic study and the (mis-)application of learning, was already part of the genre. Her most recent work, the highly-praised 2020 novel Piranesi, is a very different contribution. Set in the ominous, darkly fantastic House populated with (lifeless?) statues and filled with treacherous tides, and narrated by a wholly unreliable narrator, the novel’s ties to academia will be revealed only as the reader dares to step deeper into the text’s nightmarish maze.
• R.F. Kuang’s Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (2022) sets out to diversify the predominantly white cast of the dark academia genre. Set in an alternative Oxford in 1836, Kuang’s protagonist is a half-Chinese, half-English student of Translation – a skill that in Babel’s world constitutes the basis of a unique linguistic magic system powering the Industrial Revolution. The many references to theories of linguistics make the book a feast for students of languages, while the racially and culturally diverse main characters add another layer formerly absent from most dark academia novels.
• Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture: Studies on dark academia are still hard to find – this 2023 essay collection, edited by Marcus K. Harmes and Richard Scully, promises insights into the portrayal of academia in a variety of popular texts, such as classic dystopian novels, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld’s Unseen University, Sherlock Holmes’ academic training, as well as films such as Mona Lisa Smile and TV series such as Doctor Who, The Chair and 3rd Rock From the Sun, and many others. Aspects of monstrosity, darkness and dystopia in the essays underline possible connections to the dark academia genre and reveal tendencies in pop culture’s representation of higher education.

Are you missing any dark academia texts or studies on the topic that we can add to our collection for your and other scholars’ benefit? Then please send us a request! 

Works Cited

• Adriaansen, Robbert-Jan. “Dark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aesthetic” International Public History, vol. 5, no. 2, 2022, pp. 105-114, https://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2022-2047
• Demopoulos, Alaina. “Books and Looks: Gen Z Is ‘rediscovering’ the Public Library” The Guardian, 26 Jan. 2024, www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/26/books-and-looks-gen-z-is-rediscovering-the-public-library?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks 
• Murray, Simone. “Dark academia: Bookishness, readerly self-fashioning and the digital afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History” English Studies, vol. 104, no. 2, 10 Feb. 2023, pp. 347–364, https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2170596 
• Nguyen, Maryann. “Nostalgia in Dark Academia” East-West Cultural Passage, vol. 22, no. 1, 2022, pp. 54-72, https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0003 

This digital archive offers a diverse window into everyday American Jewish life over the span of three centuries, showcasing communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture as well as the community’s relations with the American society as a whole, shaping modern America. Original manuscript collections from the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) in New York, ranging from personal, handwritten material such as letters, scrapbooks, autobiographies and notebooks to committee reports and financial records, memorials, announcements, surveys as well as rare printed books and pamphlets are included in this rich and varied collection. Six major organisational collections and twenty-four collections of personal papers entirely digitized in full colour are accessible in this fascinating online resource. All images are full-text searchable, which immensely facilitates working with these documents.

Supplementary resources aid your research, such as guides to the collection, a chronology of major events, essays by leading academics, a selection of articles and statistics from the American Jewish Year Book and biographies of prominent Jewish personalities. Another highlight is the visual gallery. This includes the East Side Project (1932-34) by the Graduate School of Jewish Social Work, which uses photographs to document the situation of the Jewish population of the Lower East Side of New York. The website offers easy access to selected, filtered materials via eleven thematic areas of research, for example “Politics and the Law“, “Culture, Literature and the Arts” (including the papers of Emma Lazarus, author of the sonnet "The New Colossus", written on a plaque in the base of the Statue of Liberty) or “Immigration and Settlement”.

Thanks to our acquisition of this national licence you are able to access this world of knowledge via your university’s network or the central Database Information System (DBIS). Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954, an archival collection by AM, is open to all scholars and students in Germany interested in the history of the American Jewish population. If you are an independent scholar in Germany without an affiliation, please register for access to nation-wide licences via nationallizenzen.de.

June 28th, 1969 was the day when a police raid of the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, New York City, turned horribly violent, leading to the famous Stonewall riots. Before, the bar had been one of the very few safe havens for homosexual men and women, drag queens, transgender and gender-non-conforming people, as well as homeless youths. On June 28th, 1970, one year after this event, the first “Christopher Street Liberation” marches were held in honour of these riots, influencing LGBTQ+ activism in the US and around the globe, visibly expressing a new sense of self-confidence and pride. The uprising at Stonewall Inn was not the first act of rebellion by queer people for equal rights and treatment, neither in the world nor in the United States, but it had a lasting impact and a legacy still very present today. For example, the origins of Pride are still visible in the German name for pride demonstrations, celebrated under the name of “Christopher Street Day” in many German cities. However, not everyone is familiar with the actual history of the events in Christopher Street.

Here is a selection of books from out collection to help you if you want to learn more on this complex topic. Many of these books are divided in “before” and “after Stonewall”, to illustrate the strong impact of the events in Christopher Street, New York City. All of these books can be accessed by you via inter-library loan!

• The ideal place to start your research is David Carter’s Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution (St. Martin’s Press, 2004), a historical reconstruction of the events in Christopher Street in June and July, 1969. The text sets the scene by describing the social and legal background and gives a magnitude of details and quotes. 
• Stonewall (Dutton, 1993) by historian, activist and Gay Studies pioneer Martin Duberman relates the events leading up to Stonewall and their impact through the eyes of 6 activists of the community, including great biographical detail that succeeds in drawing these protagonists as fully-fledged, multidimensional individuals rather than just names. This also helps to showcase how people at different social intersections, for example, intersections of race and class, may have experienced these events through a different lens.
• Marc Stein’s The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York University Press, 2019) and The Stonewall Reader by the New York Public Library (edited by Jason Baumann; Penguin, 2019) both provide a wealth of historical texts and resources from before, during and after Stonewall. Stein’s sourcebook is a collection of 200 primary resources, including song lyrics, demonstration flyers, letters to the editor in mainstream media and articles in magazines of the LGBTQ+ scene, from 6 US-American cities, covering 1965-73. The Stonewall Reader collects newspaper articles as well as essays, interviews and personal memories, valuable first-hand accounts chronicling the Stonewall years.
• Fred W. McDarrah’s coffee-table book Pride: Photographs after Stonewall (Zed Books, 2019, first edition under the title Gay Pride in 1994), chronicles New York’s LGBTQ+ community before and after the Stonewall riots. McDarrah, picture-editor and photographer of The Village Voice, witnessed the beginning of the movement and portrayed many icons, such as Tennessee Williams, Djuna Barnes, Frank O’Hara or Candy Darling, and many others, who are pictured in the volume along with images setting the scene of New York’s gay scene in the 1960s. High-quality, first-hand photographs of parades and protests in the decades following Stonewall and quotes by eye-witnesses give a vivid impression.
• Another feast for the eyes is Christopher Measom’s book PRIDE: The LGBTQ+ Rights Movement (Sterling, 2019). It presents big and colourful artworks, photographs, entertainment posters and other historical material, as well as photographic portraits of queer icons. The book serves as a colourful introduction to important 20th and early 21st century figures, movements and developments of LGBTQ+ rebellion, decade by decade.

Missing any essential reads for your research? Then contact us today! 

Note: In this article, we try to reflect the diversity of the activists portrayed in these books by employing inclusive terms such as LGBTQ+, even though these were not historically in use in 1969.

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Cover sind in der Regel urheberrechtlich geschützt, weil sie eigens gestaltet werden und daher sog. „Schöpfungshöhe“ aufweisen. Wenn Sie eine Rezension schreiben und das Cover des besprochenen Buchs abbilden, unterliegt die Coverabbildung nur dann dem Zitatzweck, wenn Sie das Cover selbst auch besprechen, also z.B. untersuchen, in welchem Verhältnis die Symbolik der Covergestaltung zum Inhalt des Werks steht. In diesem Fall dürfen Sie das Cover mit Bildnachweis abbilden. Wenn Sie das Cover nicht besprechen, dient es nur der Illustration Ihres Beitrags. In diesem Fall müssen Sie die Erlaubnis der Rechteinhaber*innen, z.B. dem Verlag oder den Gestalter*innen, einholen.

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This version was revised by Leonore Sell. The original news item was published on June 24, 2019.

We are happy to announce that as of today we have completed the digitization and publication of 262 records from the series that are now available in the AGF special collection in The Stacks. This collection contains 244 book chapters, 12 monographs and 6 collected volumes. The digitization effort was made possible by our collaboration with the GDZ, whose support was integral in transferring these publications that were hitherto only available in print into open access.

Due to copyright limitations we were not able to publish the entire series. For this purpose we need the agreement of the authors, especially for essays published in the collected volumes. So if you have published in this series, please get in touch with us: thestacks@sub.uni-goettingen.de

The Adam Matthews database "Literary Print Culture" contains digitized business and administration documents from the archive of the "Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers" (aka Stationers' Company), a book trader's guild founded in 1403 in London. This guild later held the monopoly over print and publishing in England for several stretches during the 16th and 17th century. The Stationers' Company played a central role in the development of censors, censorship of the press, and the copyright.

Because we negotiated a national license for Germany, you can access "Literary Print Culture" via the central Database Information System (DBIS) in Germany. 

Literary Print Culture in DBIS.

Seit diesem Sommer steht den Freunden und Freundinnen der Buch- und Bibliothekswissenschaft in Deutschland eine Schatztruhe offen: Bis dato waren die mittlerweile 150 Jahrgänge des US-amerikanischen Branchenjournals Publishers Weekly den Forschenden in Deutschland weder in Print noch elektronisch vollständig zugänglich. Nun konnten der FID BBI und der FID Anglo-American Culture für das Publishers Weekly Digital Archive eine Nationallizenz erwirken. Wir freuen uns über die erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit der beiden FID und über die Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft!

Publisher's Weekly

Publishers Weekly ist ein amerikanisches Gegenstück zum Deutschen Börsenblatt oder zum Buchreport. Es handelt sich um eine Fachzeitschrift für Buchverlage, Buchhändler, Bibliothekare und Literaturagenten. Die wöchentlich erscheinende Zeitschrift wird seit 1872 herausgegeben und hat ihren Schwerpunkt auf Kurzrezensionen von Neuerscheinungen auf dem Buchmarkt. Darüber hinaus enthält sie Artikel zu buchmarktrelevanten Themen, seit 1912 auch Bestsellerlisten. Alle Ausgaben können via OCR im Volltext durchsucht werden, die Transkription kann auf jeder Seite aufgerufen und kopiert werden, dazu können Nutzende eigene Tags vergeben.

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Der Zugang muss durch die Bibliothek, über deren Netz Sie darauf zugreifen möchten, freigeschaltet werden. Ob das schon geschehen ist, können Sie über das Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS) in Erfahrung bringen. Wenn Ihre Heimatbibliothek in der Liste der „Bibliotheken mit Bestandsnachweis“ nicht auftaucht, kontaktieren Sie bitte die Kolleg*innen vor Ort. Andernfalls können Sie auch eine Einzelnutzerlizenz bei Nationallizenzen.de beantragen.

Eintrag des Publishers Weekly Digital Archives im Datenbank-Infosystem (DBIS)

According to the database description, "this primary source archive contains every page of Publishers Weekly published for nearly 150 years, in its original context, in full color, and fully searchable." The collection comprises 7,755 issues that contain close to 400,000 book reviews, many author profiles and interviews as well as bestseller lists from 1895 forward. If you want to know what the best-selling book for Christmas 1908 and 1980 was, this is the place to look for that information.

Browse the database now and enjoy exploring!

As with all our licenses, the Kompetenzzentrum für Lizenzierung (KfL) has negotiated with the publisher to provide access to the materials from your university’s network or via the database information system (DBIS) provided by your library. Independent scholars or scholarly-minded people without an affiliation can register for access to nation-wide licenses with the DFG (German Research Council) when they permanently reside in Germany. Find more information concerning registration and our other databases on the FID AAC page at the KfL.

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The archives offer entire newspaper pages as well as individually indexed materials such as articles, commentaries, opinion pieces, reviews, photographs, comics, and ads. With this access the FID-network expands upon the national license already in effect, which granted access to these newspapers until 1922.

Direct access for users with an FID-account:

• The New York Times (1851-2018)

• Washington Post (1877-2005)

If you need access, please consult our manual on how to register for the newspaper archives below or visit the KfL-website of the FID Geschichtswissenschaft.

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As such it is one of the most important European centers for the study of American and transatlantic history and promotes the exploration of the "trajectories of Dutch-American and, generally, transatlantic relations" in culture, society, and politics. The RIAS' local archive is expansive, reaching from presidential papers (Roosevelt - Carter), to W.E.B. DuBois's papers, to US foreign relations with the Netherlands and its colonies. 230,000 documents and 52 audio files of its holdings have been digitized and made available through BrillOnline's Transatlantic Relations Online database.

The collections of this database are:

• Dutch-American Diplomatic Relations Online, 1784-1973
• The Fulbright Archives, 1949-2016 (excerpts)
• Dutch-Catholic Immigration to the Americas Online, The Henk van Stekelenburg Collection, 1820-1960
• Dutch-Protestant Immigration to the Americas Online, The Stallinga-Ganzevoort Collection, 1890-1960

According to the database description, these "are of particular interest to scholars working on cultural and public diplomacy, political and economic relations, migration flows, cross-cultural exchanges, [and] the role of religion in foreign policy making." If you or your students are working on these topics, these primary sources will be of tremendous value to you.

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As with all our licenses, the Kompetenzzentrum für Lizenzierung (KfL) has negotiated with the publisher to provide access to the materials from your university’s network or via the database information system (DBIS) provided by your library. Independent scholars or scholarly-minded people without an affiliation can register for access to nation-wide licenses with the DFG (German Research Council) when they permanently reside in Germany. Find more information concerning registration and our other databases on the FID AAC page at the KfL.

Additional materials on related topics (books, journal articles, DVDs, Blu-rays) can be provided by the FID via inter-library loan.

The transfer of knowledge and the discussion of research findings is one of the most central tasks in academia. To a heightened degree, fields operating in the humanities have a responsibility and desire to communicate their research as it helps to contextualize, explain, categorize, and observe the many aspects of human existence as they relate to politics, history, culture, nature, and society. Aspirations to make knowledge production and academic discourse more transparent as well as permeable are strongly encouraged (if not required) by sponsors and facilitated by digital technology that reaches audiences like never before. The possibilities seem endless, so does the amount of outlets, so does the workload.

With this gateway, the FID AAC wants to highlight excellent examples for successful and innovative research communication in form of podcasts and, in doing so, appreciate the immense work that goes into the production of episodes, channels, and overall scholarly communication infrastructure. At the same time, we want to provide a source for students, teachers, and researchers working in our fields to find valuable resources. This gateway, in which we mainly focused on German productions, aims to make the work of many visible and usable. If important resources are missing, please let us know.

With the subject repository The Stacks, the FID AAC provides a space where you can openly archive and collect scholarly work product that otherwise might go unrecognized. We think it is important to make this vibrant and dynamic part of academic work more visible and accessible. 

What are the advantages of archiving your event materials in The Stacks?

Accessibility: Your documents will be found by (academic) search engines such as Google, Google Scholar, or BASE.

Visibility: The entirety of your work and/or your department's, network's or institution's activity is available in one place and can be browsed by names of individuals and institutions.

Citability: Your documents will be clearly identifiable and citable through permanent identifiers such as Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURL) and Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). 

Reliability: Your documents are archived and saved by a DFG-funded, non-commercial institution within German data privacy law.

Longevity: As a DINI-certified service, we can guarantee that your documents will be stored responsibly for many years to come. You don't have to worry about keeping a website running in order not to lose your documents.

Integrity: We import metadata of already registered DOIs in order to maintain document integrity and to avoid redundancy.

Non-Exclusivity: By granting The Stacks non-exclusive usage rights, you retain all rights to your documents and are free to re-use them elsewhere, e.g. the repository of your home institution.

Browse:

• Conference Programs in The Stacks.
• Conference materials of the Postgraduate Forum of the German Association for American Studies

Checklist: Follow these steps to archive your event materials in The Stacks?

1. Decide which materials you'd like to archive.
2. Make sure you have the necessary rights to publish the materials.
3. Make sure you have the necessary rights to re-use the images and designs for non-commerical purposes.
4. Decide under which Open Access license you'd like to archive your materials. You can contact us with your questions or use the CC-Chooser tool.
5. Upload your materials in The Stacks yourself OR send us your materials via email and we upload them for you.

We look forward to receiving and hosting your event materials, so that this vital part of academic communication is properly scured and appreciated. 

Please contact us with any questions and concerns you might have!

To this new platform we have contributed an Open Access directory for our research communities to facilitate successful scholarship in the subject areas we support. This directory includes open access sources and tools such as

• Open Access Journals
• Open Access Books
• Disciplinary Repositories

These and other subject-specific references are paired with general information about various aspects of and frequently asked questions about open access in form of videos, graphs, and introductory texts. As such it is a great place to learn about open access and a valuable source to share among your network, with colleagues as well as students. Make sure to visit the subject-specific open access pages for English and American Studies.

Canada’s motto is “Singular Plurality – Singulair Pluriel” and will be explored at their pavilion on the grounds of the fair and the accompanying program that "not only reflects the country’s size, but the diversity of its culture, languages and traditions [...] [and] will address the topics “Language and Culture,” “Indigenous, Political and Social Issues,” “Space and Territories,” “Children’s and Young Adult Literature,” “Women in Literature,” “LGBTQ2 Perspectives” and “The Environment”" as the organizing committee Canada Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021 (CanadaFBM2021) stated in a press release issued on September 28, 2021.

The official literary delegation that will represent Canada in Frankfurt reads like the who is who of contemporary Canadian literature and includes authors such as Margaret Atwood, Joséphine Bacon, Alexis André, Catherine Hernandez, Paul Seesequasis, and Joshua Whitehead. Find the full list at Canada’s official book fair website. Due to Corona-restrictions only a few authors will be present in person to talk about their work on several occasions and different formats; these include Michael Crummey, Kim Thúy, Canisia Lubrin, and Catherine Mavrikakis. One such occasion will be “Canada Night – Kanadische Literatur im Rampenlicht der Frankfurter Buchmesse” on October 20, 2021 organized by the Department of Canadian Heritage and Canada FBM2021. The program includes author talks, a round table discussion, and other artistic performances. Other events - on location and remote - organized for and by the guest of honor are listed here.

Covering a time when Madison Avenue was the epicenter of US marketing and advertising and so-called Mad Men were looked up to, these databases offer a wide variety of materials to not only study the history of American consumerism. Concentrating on two of the most influential individuals and their advertising firms in US history, these databases offer invaluable insights into the inner workings of these companies as well as their impact on US culture as a whole. Thus, the materials support a wide variety of projects from researching the mechanisms of advertising, to visual culture across different media, to the cultural image of certain objects (cars, cigarettes, etc.), services (airlines, travel agencies), or brands (Kodak, Barbie, Ford).

Market Research & American Business, 1935–1965

This database is a great resource to study American consumer culture of the mid-twentieth century through the lens of Ernest Dichter’s agency The Institute for Motivational Research, Inc. that was responsible for ad-campaigns for, among others, Kraft Foods, Heinz, or Disney. The collection offers an excellent stock of documents that attest to the immense influence of Freudian approaches in post-war American advertisement.

You can browse the document collections according to

• document type (letter, memorandum, pilot study, etc)
• industry (food, beauty, politics, electronics, etc.)
• language (English, German, Spanish, French, etc.)

Besides documents, the database also offers useful visual materials that contribute to a deeper study of questions surrounding advertisement in the US. The Ad Gallery includes newspaper and magazine ads as well as posters that can be filtered according to decade, brand, and industry.

Immensely helpful in using this database is the fact that each item was categorized according to an industry. The Industries-page not only directs users to related materials but also contextualizes each industry within the greater framework of Dichter’s understanding of his work. This is especially fruitful in areas ‘outside’ commerce such as Politics, Public Service, or Education.

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J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America

This database presents vast materials from the inner workings of one of the most renowned and influential advertisement agencies of the twentieth century: J. Walter Thompson (JWT). From the perspective of consumer culture, these documents and ad-campaigns offer great potential to study, among others, questions related to history, cultural studies, economics, or gender studies in the US.

Smartly, the materials have been grouped together in collections and series according to their respective context and given introductory texts to historicize and explain the nature of these sources. In this way users can use series such as Staff Meeting Minutes, Account Files/Brand Case Studies, or Chicago Office Media Resources and Research Department Records in an informed way. The visual sources differentiated between Print Advertisements and JWT  Photographs are both searchable by date, brand, subject and type.

Besides the excellent primary sources, this database also offers access to rich supplementary materials in the Explore section. Here, users can find academic essays on the impact of JWT, video interviews with experts in the field, client case studies, and chronologies of the company’s history (both from the company’s perspective and an archive’s perspective).

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The databases on American Consumer Culture, so far, has sourced materials from the following institutions:

• Hagley Museum and Library, which specializes in the study of business and technology in the US and holds majority of Dichter’s US-related market studies and reports.
• The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, Duke University, which holds the J. Walter Thompson Archives.
• The Advertising Archives.

Enjoy exploring! If you would like to make a request for future databases, fill out this form and let us know.

Additional materials on related topics (books, journal articles, DVDs, Blu-rays) can be provided by the FID via inter-library loan.

Each anthology—covering many academic disciplines from history, film studies, literary studies to medieval studies—now has its own collection and lists every article individually: 

• Anthologies

Furthermore, we are excited to be able to archive every book so far published in the series „Göttinger Schriften zur Englischen Philologie” (“Göttingen Writings in English Philology”) – monographs and anthologies.

• "Göttinger Schriften zur ENglischen Philologie”

You can find all publication from Göttingen University Press archived in “The Stacks” relating to the fields we support here:

• Göttingen University Press in "The Stacks"

These digital materials, alongside the entire Göttingen University program, are of course also available on the publisher’s website. Make sure to browse it. We look forward to continue this cooperation with Göttingen University Press, update our repository with top-notch academic publications, and make the work of scholars in our fields more visible by providing an additional Open Access platform.

Never miss any important news related to the Fachinformationsdienst Anglo-American Culture and History. With our newly-established newsletter, we will inform our community about current events, ongoing services, and the general developments of the FID AAC and its subject repository "The Stacks." Additionally, we understand the newsletter as a way to foster direct communication with our research communities and welcome feedback and questions about our work.

We invite you to subscribe to our newsletter, so we can deliver our latest updates right to your digital doorstep. 

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Browse the holdings of DVDs and Blu-rays the SUB Göttingen has acquired so far.

If something is missing, please send us your suggestions via our Request Form and we will notify you as soon as the materials are ready to order. 

Series that were produced in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and/or New Zealand will be acquired by the SUB Göttingen. Our partners from the JFKI Library at FU Berlin already house a large collection of American and Canadian series.

Besides supporting German researchers in conducting their work by providing access to primary sources, assembling DVDs and Blu-rays in this way will also ensure the development of an accessible collection of TV productions and serial storytelling.

You can now find more monographs, anthologies, and anthology articles in “The Stacks”. The books cover many academic disciplines related to our fields such as cultural studies, didactics, economics, gender studies, literary studies, etc.:

• Monographs
• Anthologies

Some anthologies are made available as collections, where the articles can be accessed separately:

• Collections of Anthologies

These digital materials complement the physical copies of books published by Peter Lang that the SUB Göttingen has acquired and that are available via interlibrary loan. If you want to suggest a book for purchase, please let us know through our “Request Form.”

Please make sure to browse the entire Peter Lang program in English/British Studies, American Studies, and beyond!

We look forward to continue this cooperation with Peter Lang, update our repository with top-notch academic publications, and make the work of scholars in our fields more visible by providing an additional OA platform.

If you'd like to publish your work in Open Access in our repository The Stacks, but you're not sure how to go about it or simply don't have the time to figure it out, we are here to make it easier for you:

Send us your list of publication and we will review and clarify the issues concerning copyright and self-archiving. Many publishers have individual policies about which version of your text to use for self-archiving and when. The review of each document is a time-consuming task, that we will happily do for you - free of charge!

We're Here to Help!

We are dedicated to making your work more accessible and visible and thus offer extensive services to support the upload of your academic work to our subject repository. 

1. Send us your publication list via email 
2. We review which entries can be archived according to German copyright laws and international publisher policies
3. We send you our assessment
4. We digitize publications that have been print-only thus far
5. With your permission, we upload PDFs of your work and send you a persistent link

We look forward to working together with you in this endeavor. If you have questions or feedback, please let us know and get in touch. 

Learn more about The Stacks.

This is an updated version of the original news item published on November 9, 2020

Das Zertifikat soll drei Wirkungsfelder bedienen:

1. Forschende sollen anhand des Siegels vertrauenswürdige Publikationsdienste erkennen.
2. Förder- und Träger-Institutionen sollen erkennen, welcher Aufwand hinter dem Betrieb eines solchen Publikationsdienstes steckt und welchen Mehrwert eine standardisierte und nachhaltige Open-Access Publikationsinfrastruktur mit sich bringt.
3. Betreiber*innen erhalten mit dem Kriterienkatalog eine Orientierung beim Aufbau und Betrieb von Open Access-Repositorien.

Für Interessierte liegt die ausführliche Fassung des Zertifikats in deutscher und englischer Sprache vor.

Wir danken unseren Göttinger Kolleg*innen, die uns bei der Umsetzung unterstützt haben, und den DINI-Gutachter*innen für die professionelle Zusammenarbeit! 

The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, tasked with the coordinating the commemoroation of the 1921 events is a great entry point to familarize yourself with the discourses around the massacre itself, Greenwood, as the place where it happened, and the continued debates about whose history is being communicated. 

Databases and Archives

National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)

• The NMAAHC has compiled its resources relating to the massacre in Greenwood in their "Tulsa Objects in the NMAAHC Collection" 
• Try search filters such as "Tulsa Race Massacre,"  "Tulsa," or "Greenwood"

African American Newspapers (Series 1 & 2)

• Research contemporary news coverage of the 1920s related to the events in Tulsa through the African American Newspapers database which was licensed by the FID AAC
• Learn more about the database here

Oklahoma State University

• Browse the digitized materials of "Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921" - Collection

Smithsonian Institution

• The Smithsonian Institution presents in its collection cluster "Tulsa 100" different facets of their collections to engage with the Tulsa Race Massacre from different perspectives.
• The episode "Confronting the Past" of the Smithsonian's podacst Sidedoor provides an overall understanding of the events and their devastating impact.

Library of Congress

• Find search strategies and selected articles on the topic: https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-tulsa-race-riots/introduction 

Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre

#TulsaSyllabus

• #TulsaSyllabus is source curated by Dr. Alicia Odewale (University of Tulsa) and Dr. Karla Slocum (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) that offers reading lists and syllabi about different aspects of the Tulsa Greenwood District.

Tulsa Historical Society and Museum

• The THSM has curated a great online exhibit "The Attack on Greenwood" that offers engaging materials.
• The society has made available many audio recordings of interviews with survivors and contemporaries of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
• Find legal documents of course cases and reports of the Red Cross that document immediate reactions to the massacre.

Oklahoma Historical Society

• The Oklahoma Historical Society provides the offical report "Tulsa Race Riot" (2001) by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa race Riot of 1921
• Find a historical overview of the events, their socio-political contexts, their immediate aftermath, and their long-term effects: https://www.okhistory.org/learn/trm 

Tulsa and Greenwood in Literature, Art, and Culture

The Greenwood Art Project commissioned several artists to install public artworks arouond Tulsa on occasion of the Centennial. (Find a report on the project's opening on Artnet.)

Works of the artist Crystal Z. Campbell that reflect on the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Fire in Beulah (2001), a novel by Rilla Askew

Dreamland Burning (2017), a novel by Jennifer Latham

"The Case for Reparations" (2017), a story by Ta-Nehisi Coates

"The Massacre of Black Wallstreet" (2019), a webcomic by Natalie Chang

"Watchmen" (2019), TV-series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Currently in the News

"A Century after the Race Massacre, Tulsa Confronts Its Bloody Past" (NPR), May 24, 2021

"American Terror" (Smithsonian Magazine), April 2021

"The Tulsa Race Massacre at 100: An Imperative fpr International Accountability and Justice" (Stanford Law School), February 11, 2021 

"Coffins Unearthed as the Search for Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre Continues" (National Geographic), October 26, 2020

"Many Tulsa Massacres: How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence" (National Museum of American History), August 25, 2020

"The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the Financial Fallout" (Harvard Gazette), June 18, 2020 

Litlog ist ein studentisches eMagazin, gegründet am Seminar für Deutsche Philologie der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, das sich den praktizierten Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Kultur zum Ziel gesetzt hat. Das Spektrum dieses Dialogs reicht von kulturanalytischen Essays über literaturkritische Beiträge und Berichte zum literarischen wie kulturellen Leben, insbesondere in Göttingen, bis hin zu wissenschaftsjournalistischen und genuin wissenschaftlichen Artikeln.

Geführt wird dieser Dialog in erster Linie vom wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Nachwuchs: von den Studierenden der Göttinger Universität, die als Redaktionsmitglieder, als freie Mitarbeiter:innen, als Autor:innen, Reporter:innen und Ideengeber:innen Litlog mit Inhalt füllen. Dabei will Litlog zugleich einüben ins öffentliche Schreiben: ins Schreiben für Leser:innen, nicht für Gutachter:innen; ins interessante, ins informative, ins unterhaltende Schreiben.

Litlog-Artikel können Rezensionen von Büchern, Filmen, Serien oder Musikalben oder Essays zu literarischen, kulturellen oder wissenschaftlichen Themen sein, beziehungsweise Interviews mit interessanten Personen aus dem Kulturbetrieb oder auch Reportagen aus der lokalen Kulturszene. Auch für andere Ideen und Formate sind wir offen. Veröffentlicht werden die Texte auf unserer Website, die mit Features wie einem Infoboxen, Bebilderung, Verschlagwortung, Veranstaltungskalender und Bücherkarussell eine schöne Plattform für journalistische Arbeitsproben bietet.

Unter der Rubrik "In English" finden die Litlog Leser:innen viele Inhalte auch auf Englisch.

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Du studierst eine Philologie oder ein ähnliches Fach an der Uni Göttingen und möchtest einen Artikel für Litlog schreiben? Dann wende Dich gern mit einer konkreten Idee oder einfach so an info@litlog.de oder litlog@uni-goettingen.de. Falls Du ein kürzlich erschienenes Buch oder eine Veranstaltung besprechen möchtest, bemühen wir uns um ein Rezensionsexemplar oder Pressekarten. Für englischsprachige Bücher können wir auf die Hilfe des FID AAC zurückgreifen. Wir helfen Dir in einem gründlichen Redigat, an Deinem Text zu arbeiten. Wenn er dann veröffentlicht ist, kannst Du ihn als Referenz angeben. Litlog ist für Studierende da: Solange Du mit Sprache umgehen und ein bisschen mit Texten arbeiten kannst, sind keine weiteren Vorkenntnisse vonnöten.

In 2014 Robert X. Browning, the director of the C-SPAN archives at Purdue University has established the book series The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, in which six volumes have been published so far. The first volume, The C-SPAN Archives: An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement (2014), offers an introduction to the tools of the archive and a series of case studies focusing on rhetorical and historical aspects, but also including approaches from the social sciences. The following volumes extend the disciplinary spectrum to political science, journalism, psychology, computer science, media and communication studies and other disciplines. The latest two publications in the series focus on president Trump’s first term and the evolution of political rhetoric in the United States.

At the beginning of 2021 Purdue University Press announced that the series will from now on be available in open access on the institutional repository Purdue e-Pubs.

The database contains such eminent publications as Freedom’s Journal, which is considered to be the first African American newspaper in the United States, Frederick Douglass' famous North Star, and Marcus Garvey's Negro World, but also many regional, lesser known papers. The search interface of the database will be easy to navigate for users already familiar with Readex's America's Historical Newspapers. It allows the browsing of titles by such criteria as title, date range or location, but also offers more advanced search options, and tools for citation and download.

Both series of African American Newspapers can be accessed here: Series 1 and Series 2

Similarly to our recently announced database Gender: Identity and Social Change wide accessibility is guaranteed through a national license for Germany that allows all users of German university libraries to explore the collection via the database information system DBIS.

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And if you would like to make a request for future databases, fill out this form and let us know.

The “Gender: Identity and Social Change” database is an excellent collection of primary sources for the study of women and their life realities starting in the 18th century and throughout the 19th and 20th century. Clustered according to thematic areas such as Women’s Suffrage, understandings of the body, historical views on leisure and entertainment, or the men’s movement, the database provides excellent primary resources from Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Thus, it will serve all members of our diverse research community.

Search the collections now!

Highlights from the collections include

• The Munby Papers, which consist of writings both by Arthur Munby and his wife Hannah Cullwick

• Letters of readers of The Feminine Mystique to the author Betty Friedan

• Materials on the Suffrage Movement in New Zealand

• Papers of the evolution of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs in Canada

• Materials about the status and treatment of African American women in the US (1968-2004); including the pamphlet of the Combahee River Collective 

• Issues of the periodical The British Workwoman (1864-1987)

A very helpful function of the database is its Chronology tool with which yoou can trace and visualize historical developments and events. It is a timeline that lists historical events, court decisions, and publication dates according to thematic areas, thus enabling you to gain a cohesive or comparative overview of your research interests. You can also create your own list of materials and make it fit your specific analytical needs.

The database, so far, has sourced materials from the following institutions:

1. The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America  
2. Trinity College, Cambridge
3. Michigan State University Libraries
4. Hagley Museum and Library
5. Bryn Mawr College
6. The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
7. Mary Evans Picture Library
8. Glenbow
9. The University of Melbourne

Enjoy exploring!

If you would like to make a request for future databases, fill out this form and let us know.