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August 06, 2007
Today in History: August 6th
The following information can be found at: History.com - This Day in History:
1890: First execution by electric chair
At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electrocution in history is carried out against William Kemmler, who had been convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe. Read the complete article.Cite this article: First execution by electric chair. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 02:38, Aug 6, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5238.
Books in the GSU Library:
Author: Banner, Stuart, 1963-
Title: The death penalty : an American history / Stuart Banner.
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: HV8699.U5 B3672002
Author: Shipman, Marlin.
Title: The penalty is death : U.S. newspaper coverage of women’s executions / Marlin Shipman.
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: HV8699.U5 S472002
1928: Andy Warhol is born
Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the latter part of the 20th century, is born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A frail and diminutive man with a shock of silver-blond hair, Warhol was a major pioneer of the pop art movement of the 1960s but later outgrew that role to become a cultural icon. Read the complete article.Cite this article: Andy Warhol is born. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 02:44, Aug 6, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6981.
Books and videos in the GSU Library:
Title: Andy Warhol [videorecording] / an RM Arts production ; producer/director, Kim Evans ; edited and presented by Melvyn Bragg.
Location: Video
Call Number: FLM-VDO. N6537.W28 A85X1987VIDEORECORD941
Author: Warhol, Andy, 1928-
Title: America / Andy Warhol.
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: N6537.W28 A41985
Author: Ratcliff, Carter.
Title: Andy Warhol / Carter Ratcliff.
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: N6537.W28 R371983
1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. Read the complete article.Cite this article: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 02:51, Aug 6, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=2751.
Books about Hiroshima in the GSU Library:
Author: Yoneyama, Lisa, 1959-
Title: Hiroshima traces : time, space, and the dialectics of memory / Lisa Yoneyama.
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: D767.25.H6 Y661999
Author: BUNGEI SHUNJU SENSHI KENKYUKAI.
Title: The day man lost : Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, by the Pacific War Research Society.
Location: Main Stacks
Call Number: D767.25.H6 B85
Author: Kodama, Tatsuharu, 1928-
Uniform Title: Shin-chan no sanrinsha. English
Title: Shin’s tricycle / Tatsuharu Kodama ; illustrations by Noriyuki Ando ; English translation by Kazuko Hokumen-Jones.
Location: Materials Center Teachers Resources
Call Number: MAT-CTR. D767.25.H6 S513151995
Posted by d-nadler at August 6, 2007 01:37 PM