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Inflated : How Money and Debt Built the American Dream, by R. Christopher Whalen. Wiley, 2011. New Book Area HJ8101 .W43 2011

"When it comes to matters of money, most Americans tend to view themselves as reasonably prudent people, reflecting the puritan roots of their European ancestors. Yet, at the same time, Americans also seem to feel entitled to a lifestyle, individually and nationally, that is well above the rest of the world's, and well beyond our current means. Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream explores more than two hundred years of American politics and monetary policy to examine this conflict. In doing so, it asks whether the current understanding of the American Dream, one of entitlement, is so ingrained that to expect Americans willingly to live in a 'deflated' world is unrealistic. This book simply and directly tells the story of inflation and public debt as enduring, and perhaps even endearing, features of American life." (from inside flap)

Books may be checked out for four weeks with your SWC photo ID card.

ARTstor: New Collection American Studies

The ARTstor Digital Library provides thousands of images related to American Studies ranging from colonial times to the present, including photography, architecture, decorative arts, graphic design, painting, and sculpture.

The Digital Library is rich with collections that cover general American history. Notable ones include:

Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Library of Congress): pictorial overview of American history, including images of prints, posters, maps, manuscript pages, photographs, design, movie stills, and cartoons;

Native American Art and Culture (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution): historic photographs documenting Native American subjects (portraits, scenes, etc.);

Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection (Harvard University): portraits of women’s work, key participants in the women’s suffrage movement and larger women’s rights movement, as well as women involved in organized labor and vocational training;

The Rogovin Collection: social documentary photography of the poor and working class, and his depictions of their lives, communities, and working conditions;

George Eastman House: early photographs of the American West by William Henry Jackson and Carleton Watkins, and portraits by Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, widely considered the first masters of photography in the United States.

Find hundreds of thousands of further :American images by choosing Browse > Geography > United States. Choose a Classification to narrow your results.

To view ARTstor from off campus locations you need to create an ARTstor account at http://www.artstor.org/ from any computer on the Southwestern College campuses.

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Born 1977 - 1997? You are officially a member of the Net Generation.

Tapscott, Don. Grown Up Digital : How the Net Generation is Changing Your World. NY : McGraw Hill, 2009.
New Book Shelf QA76.9.C66 T29 2009

Tapscott interviewed 10,000 people to better understand who this generation is and where they're headed. “As the first global generation ever, the Net Geners are smarter, quicker and more tolerant of diversity than their predecessors. They care strongly about justice and the problems faced by their society and are typically engaged in some kind of civic activity at school, at work or in their communities.”

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