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New and Notable Collections, October 2023

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  • Kansas City Call, 1919 – 2010— A Black weekly newspaper founded in 1919 to provide leadership for the Black community, The Call quickly became one of the most successful Black newspapers in the U.S. on important issues of the African American community.
  • The Passion of Yeshua (2017, Autograph Score), Richard Danielpour — A concert oratorio portrays the story of the last day in the life of Jesus (Yeshua in Hebrew) with texts in Hebrew and English.
  • Oxford Scholarly Editions – Classics (Oxford University Press) — Digital access to authoritative critical editions, including the Oxford Classical Texts series, commentaries, and translations of major works, including texts and translations of all the major Latin authors (Horace, Ovid, Virgil, Homer, etc.) as well as the Greek tragedians, comedians, and philosophers.
  • Oxford Scholarly Editions – Literature (Oxford University Press) — Including writers active between the 8th and 20th century, contains over 1,750 scholarly editions—the equivalent of more than 870,000 print pages.
  • LGBT Studies in Video Volume II (Alexander Street Press) While strongest in documentary films, Volume II does include films that document performances, news, interviews, and even includes an animated film.  The production dates run 1990s-2020s, with source countries as diverse as England, Estonia, France, Holland, and Israel in addition to the USA.
  • Classic Brazilian Cinema Online (Brill Publishers) – A unique collection of digitized historical film magazines from the 1910s to the 1970s, providing students and researchers with easy access to rare and previously dispersed sources documenting the cinematographic history of the largest country in Latin America.
  • Southern Life and African American History, 1775–1915, Plantation Records, parts 3 and 4 – These collections contain valuable primary sources from the 18th to earlier 20th century.  Included is material on the lives of enslaved persons, economic records, and diaries documenting everyday life.