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There are areas of mystery in our Christian faith that lie...
There are areas of mystery in our Christian faith that lie beyond the keenest scholarship or even the most profound spiritual exercises.
Focusing on German responses to the Holocaust since 1945,...
Focusing on German responses to the Holocaust since 1945, Postwar Germany and the Holocaust traces the process of Vergangenheitsbew.ltigung (‘overcoming the past’), the persistence of silences, evasions and popular mythologies with regards to the Nazi era, and cultural representations of the Holocaust up to the present day.
William Poole devotes particular attention to Milton’s...
William Poole devotes particular attention to Milton’s personal situation: his reading and education, his ambitions and anxieties, and the way he presented himself to the world. Although always a poet first, Milton was also a theologian and civil servant, vocations that informed the composition of his masterpiece.
Borne of a professional development workshop, Teaching for ...
Borne of a professional development workshop, Teaching for Justice highlights the commitment and efforts of LIS faculty and instructors who feature social justice theory and strategies in their courses and classroom practices.
Focusing on women’s multiple forms of participation in...
Focusing on women’s multiple forms of participation in the insurrection, especially those that occurred off the battlefield, such as smuggling messages, hiding weapons, and distributing propaganda, Bayard de Volo explores how gender - both masculinity and femininity - were deployed as tactics in the important though largely unexamined battle for the ‘hearts and minds’ of the Cuban people.
What Do Philosophers Do? takes up the skeptical arguments from...
What Do Philosophers Do? takes up the skeptical arguments from this everyday point of view, and ultimately concludes that they don’t undermine our ordinary beliefs or our ordinary ways of finding out about the world.
Mary Dearborn’s new biography gives the richest and most...
Mary Dearborn’s new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end, and whose seven novels and six-short story collections informed–and are still informing–fiction writing generations after his death.
A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How...
A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home? Paintings rich with feeling tell this satisfying story of friendship and trust.
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the...
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through sentencing.
Taking advantage of patriotic fervor and fear in the wake of...
Taking advantage of patriotic fervor and fear in the wake of 9/11, the CIA and other security agencies have infiltrated almost every aspect of academic culture and enlist professors, graduate students, and even undergraduates to moonlight as spies.
Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist...
Correcting an absence of writing about contemporary feminist work by Canadian artists, Desire Change considers the resurgence of feminist art, thought, and practice in the past decade by examining artworks that respond to themes of diversity and desire.
As the world’s greatest producer of natural gas moves...
As the world’s greatest producer of natural gas moves aggressively to expand its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), America stands poised to become an energy superpower–an unanticipated development with far-reaching implications for the international order.
Drawing on the experiences of Stanford University graduates...
Drawing on the experiences of Stanford University graduates and using the students’ own accounts of their education, job searches, and first work experiences, Randall Stross provides heartening demonstrations of how multi-capable liberal arts graduates are.
While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women...
While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African...
The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book’s core strength.
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle,...
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, … fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo.
In 1991, there were more than 1,000 “Americanists”...
In 1991, there were more than 1,000 “Americanists” - experts in U.S. history and politics - working in the Soviet Union. The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the U.S.
When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the...
When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, it brought to the fore the idea that it is as important to improve one’s own sense of pleasure as it is to manage depression and anxiety.
Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by...
Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortes’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived–leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story.
As president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981, McNamara...
As president of the World Bank from 1968 to 1981, McNamara changed the way many people thought about international development by shifting the World Bank’s focus to poverty alleviation.Recent News
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Keep a reading log (available in the SMC Library, as an online form, and as a PDF for download below) May 28-Aug. 26 and turn it in t...
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On Thursday, April 26th, Saint Mary's College will launch its fourth 1Day1SMC 24-hour Giving Challenge. ...
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The St. Albert Hall Library building was dedicated fifty years ago this month. ...
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Kate Wilson is excited to meet faculty and staff and talk about the College Archives. What is the Archives and what is it for? What is kept...
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