The Focus on... exhibit in the Allen North Lobby showcases the Libraries' collection by highlighting books and other material on a subject. Displays will change throughout the year. All books on display can be checked out.
New Books Lists
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2006 Displays
2005 Displays
Email comments to focuson@lib.washington.edu
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Archive of Previous Displays
| March 2008
1917 photograph of women picketing the White House. Courtesy of American Memory. |
Women's History Month
March is National Women’s History Month. The UW
Libraries has thousands of books dealing with women’s history. This display showcases books on women’s
suffrage movements in the United States, Great Britain and other countries.
The display case features pages from The New Citizen, the official paper of the Washington Equal Suffrage
Association, published in Seattle from 1909 to 1912 and photographs from the Corbis Images for Education database.
To learn more about women’s suffrage and other
aspects of women’s history, use the resources listed on the History and Women Studies subject pages linked on the UW Libraries Home Page under Resources by
Subject.
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| February 2008
Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Photograph courtesy of Eugene Webb. |
Religion and Nature
Each society has its own means of organizing the world, a way to make sense of “reality.” For example, to speak of categories such as “religion” and “nature” reflects a Western understanding of humanity and the cosmos. For some societies, “religion” and “nature” are scarcely distinguishable, while for others there is a clear delineation and even hierarchy.
This exhibit showcases some of the resources for examining the question, “How do various religious traditions of the world understand nature or the natural world?” Whether it be the “givenness” of nature understood by Daoism and other world-views, the impermanence of nature according to Buddhism, or the belief in divine creation shared by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the answers are diverse.
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| January 2008
1942 Dorothea Lange photo, “Salute of Innocence.” |
Japanese American Incarceration during World War II
In 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes on the west coast and sent to American-style concentration camps at remote inland sites — Gila, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz and Tule Lake.
This display showcases some of the many books available in the UW Libraries that tell the history of this event.
To research more about the incarceration of Japanese Americans, use the resources listed on the History Subject Page
The display case features an original 1942 exclusion poster from Special Collections.
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