See Our Editor Picks for Faculty
Does your reading list need a refresh? Update your courses with varied content from across the ProQuest portfolio.
By Kelly Latham, Editor
Access to different content types and cross-disciplinary content allow faculty and students to explore subjects from different angles. See our Fall Editor’s Picks for Faculty below. (For some items, you may need to log into your ProQuest or library account or request a free trial.)
Video: Romeo and Juliet
Source: National Theatre Collection
Disciplines: Theatre/Drama, Music
Originally staged as part of the National Theatre’s “Shakespeare for younger audiences” program, this archival recording was captured in 2017. The contemporary production tells the most famous love story of all time, set against a vivid urban backdrop bursting with excitement, color, dance and song.
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Dissertation: The Work Engagement of Millennial Employees
Source: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Disciplines: Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Business
Low employee engagement among the Millennial generation has taken center stage as a topic of research. It has significant implications for the economy and the performance of American companies. This qualitative case study builds on work engagement theory by investigating whether positive psychology and positive leadership styles may positively impact Millennial employee engagement. Millennials embody a shift in today’s workplace and are motivated by a desire to transform themselves, their colleagues and the world around them.
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Newspaper Article: The 37th President Is First to Quit Post (Nixon Resigns)
Source: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2014)
Disciplines: Political Science, History
From the front-page of the New York Times on August 9, 1974: President Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, announced he would give up his long and arduous fight to remain in office. Gerald Rudolph Ford, whom Mr. Nixon nominated for Vice President the previous October, would be sworn in as the 38th President.
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Video: Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Source: Psychological Experiments Online
Disciplines: Psychology, Counseling
In 1971, Professor Philip Zimbardo carried out a psychological experiment at Stanford to test the question: What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Student volunteers were pre-tested and randomly assigned to play prisoner or guard in a simulated prison. Before long, some guards became sadistic and prisoners showed signs of acute stress and depression. After only six days, the planned two-week study ended to prevent further abuse of the prisoners. This dramatic demonstration is relevant in many institutional settings. The documentary uses original footage, flashbacks, post-experiment interviews and comparisons with real-life prisons.
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Blog Post: The Radicalism of Toni Morrison
Source: ProQuest Extraordinary Stories Blog
Disciplines: Literature
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison’s debut novel changed the way we think about American literature. “There can’t be anyone, I am sure, who doesn’t know what it feels like to be disliked, even rejected, momentarily or for sustained periods of time,” she wrote in a foreword to the 2007 reprint of her seminal 1970 novel, The Bluest Eye. The ProQuest Extraordinary Stories Blog takes a closer look at the radicalism of this work and its profound impact on American literature and the American consciousness.
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Video: James Baldwin: Speech on Civil Rights
Source: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974
Disciplines: Black Studies, American History, The 1960s
This 18-minute film shows James Baldwin giving a speech on civil rights to a group of students in London. Baldwin was a novelist, short story writer, playwright and prolific social critic. His politics tended toward anti-imperialism. “…Look the world in the face like you have a right to be here. When you do that, you have attacked the power structure of the Western world.”
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Ebook: Social Media for Nurses: Educating Practitioners and Patients in a Networked World
Source: Academic Complete/Ebook Central
Disciplines: Nursing
The “how to” primer for nurses and health professionals on effectively using social media in educating consumers and patients on health issues and for their own professional development.
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