The Shifting Pattern of Black Migration From and Into the Nonmetropolitan South, 1965-95 [.pdf]
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/rdrr93/
Recently published by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the US Department of Agriculture, this report focuses on the migration of African Americans between the nonmetropolitan South and the rest of the Nation, along with education and poverty trends from 1965-1970 through 1990-1995. According to the report, since 1970, there has been a reversal of the lasting trend of Black migration loss from the South. Black migration to Northern or Western states has dramatically declined, while a simultaneous increase in the rate of movement of southern metro African Americans into the nonmetro South has occurred, particularly during the 1990's. Created by Glenn Fuguitt, John Fulton, and Calvin Beale, this 21-page report can be viewed chapter-by-chapter or in its entirety using Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf). [MG]
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US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1905-1971
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/
Presented by the Indiana University Library Program and the Calumet Regional Archives, the US Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection provides access to more than 2,200 digital images documenting the creation of the world's largest steel mill during the height of America's industrial revolution. While the tour takes Internet users through the building of the U.S. Steel Gary Works, it also depicts the life of the city during this period. Not only is this site a valuable resource for scholars and historians of American history and the Industrial Revolution, it also meets the needs of school teachers and students. The site includes a teacher's guide equipped with lesson plans, learning objectives, and online activities for classroom use for fourth grade, middle school, and high school teachers. In addition, viewers can either perform a basic, advanced, or ID search, or browse this easily navigable site by subject, date, or box. [MG]
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Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/
Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture was organized by the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Sigmund Freud-Museum, Vienna and the Freud Museum, London. The exhibit features vintage photographs, prints, and original manuscripts. In addition, selected film and television clips, along with materials from newspapers, magazines, and comic books, are interwoven throughout the exhibition to highlight the influence of psychoanalysis on popular culture. The physical exhibition is composed of three major sections. Section one, Formative Years, highlights the milieu of Freud's early professional development in late nineteenth-century Vienna. Section two, The Individual: Therapy and Theory, examines key psychoanalytic concepts and how Freud used them in some of his most famous cases. Lastly, section three, From the Individual to Society, focuses on the diffusion of psychoanalytic ideas and Freud's speculations about the origins of society, the social functions of religion and art, and how crises reveal fundamental aspects of human nature. On the whole, the exhibition offers a moderate examination of Freud's life and his key ideas, as well as their effect upon the twentieth century. [MG]
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Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mead/
This small online selection from a Library of Congress (LC) exhibition celebrates Margaret Mead's birthday (December 16, 1901) for its 100th anniversary. As a popular but controversial anthropologist, Mead preserved extensive field notes and other documentation for later researchers to consult and interpret, and her collection at LC contains over 500,000 items. The exhibition is organized into three major areas: Mead's childhood and education, her field work in Samoa and other areas in the South Pacific, and her later work on American culture after 1940. The online exhibition begins with a pastel self-portrait Mead did at age 13 and concludes with a 1958 photograph of Mead and French anthropologist Rhoda Metraux looking at children's drawings that were inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik. In between are pictures of Mead with Samoan adolescent girls, children's drawings Mead collected, and a photo by Ken Heyman, the photographer Mead collaborated with to produce the popular 1960's picture book, Family. [DS]
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The Economic Report of the President, 2002 [.pdf]
http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/index.html
Once again, the United States Government Printing Office has released its annual electronic version of the Economic Report of the President (last mentioned in the February 12, 1999 Scout Report). This Web page contains the entire 2002 report as well as economic reports from previous years, dating back as far as 1995. Statistical tables in spreadsheet format are also accessible and can be downloaded individually (.pdf) or in their entirety (.zip). In addition, the site offers links to related budget documents and the chart book entitled Changing America: indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin. Changing America, prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race, documents current differences in well-being by race and Hispanic origin and describes how such differences have evolved over the past several decades. All documents are downloadable in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) or ASCII text format. [MG]
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The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children [.pdf]
http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2001/PFS/PFSHelpingFathersOverview.htm
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation's (MDRC) recent report, "The Challenge of Helping Low-Income Fathers Support Their Children" on the Parents' Fair Share program (PFS) is extraordinarily well presented and informative. An ongoing national project, PFS attempts to connect noncustodial fathers with their children by helping them locate and acquire vocational training and/or work and by providing various opportunities for them to establish positive, proactive roles as parents. Targeting those most likely to go unserved by existing support networks, PFS was specifically designed to aid those most in need, given that state and local agencies tend to work with employed and employable fathers first and all others second. Particularly worthy of note and consideration are the report's recommendations for future programs, which emphasize programs of longer duration and more federal, state, and local government involvement in providing work options and alternatives for fathers with minimal skills. [WH]
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Pacific Institute Releases New Economy of Water [.pdf]
http://pacinst.org/reports/new_economy.htm
Riveting reading, the Pacific Institute's report on The Economy of Water puts it all up front when it comes to the status and power of water as an issue of looming national and international significance. Looking at water from multiple perspectives, the report clearly details the impact and potential harm of current and pending zoning and privatization efforts on the part of utilities and other interested agencies, both public and private. In particular, the study focuses on the social and financial costs of water privatization efforts and their long term implications for specific countries and societies. Perhaps most compelling is the policy brief's emphasis on the competing forces of globalization and privatization and how they tend to play out and off of one another. [WH]
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Mill Hill Essays 2001
http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/millhillessays/2001/
The National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) has published its seventh edition of the Mill Hill Essays. This annual publication (last mentioned in the April 6, 2001 Scout Report) is designed for anyone "with an interest in science and the natural world." Topics covered in this year's publication include Dimitris Kioussis's review of the novel White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Robin Lovell-Badge's explanation on the production and therapeutic possibilities of stem cells, Roger Buxton's report on the importance of conserving antibiotics, Tom Kirkwood's essay on the reasons of "ageing" and how scientists are beginning to understand the "ageing" process, and Don Williamson's fascinating story of endosymbiosis and the surprising implications that discoveries in this field have for human health. Essays are presented in HTML format and are generally equivalent to several printed pages. [MG]
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