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- McFarlin Library: A View from the Top | From McFarlin Tower on McFarlin Library blueprints are now available online
- Updated Digital Collections: Fall 2017 | From McFarlin Tower on World War I: 1917 – The Yanks are Coming exhibit
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Tag Archives: popular culture
Posting on behalf of KWGS 89.5 FM
At The University of Tulsa’s KWGS 89.5, we are researching and producing a radio documentary on old-fashioned soda pop or soft drinks. Are there any flavors that you recall, perhaps as a child, that are no longer being made? Do … Continue reading
New Dime Novels at Special Collections
The University of Tulsa’s Department of Special Collections and University Archives would like to announce the acquisition of two new dime novels to our holdings. Dime novels are a staple of American popular culture, and the precursors of today’s mass … Continue reading
Posted in Acquisitions, Collections, History, Popular Culture
Tagged acquisitions, Books, collections, history, Literature, popular culture
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Graham Greene’s Birthday
Today we commemorate the birthday of English writer, playwright and literary critic Graham Greene. Greene’s works delved into the ambivalent moral and political issues of contemporary culture, and his works were permeated by Catholic religious themes, as seen in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, collections, history, Literature, Modernism, popular culture
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Yes! We Have Comic Books!
Popular Culture (commonly referred to as pop culture) is defined as the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th … Continue reading
Posted in artwork, Collections, General, History, Uncategorized
Tagged art, artifacts, artists books, collections, Comic Books, history, Literature, popular culture
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New Acquisitions
An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting : with proper rules for the exercise of that pleasant art, humbly addressed in the first part, to the master, husband, &c, in the second part to the wife, friend, &c, … Continue reading
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Tagged acquisitions, Books, Great War, popular culture, satire, torture, World War I, World War One, WWI
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