Jellinek’s “Shoe Book”
After publishing two book reviews in Hungarian, Jellinek wrote a book entitled A saru eredete (The origin of shoes) in 1917. With its 59 pages, this work is longer than … Read More
Alcohol History
Bunky’s Pantheon
The study of alcoholism does not just reward but practically demands an interdisciplinary approach, a capacity to navigate and synthesize medical science, psychology, sociology, and more. In this way we … Read More
The “Bunky”
The Bunky head. The small, bronze, possibly birthday hat wearing bust you may have noticed as you entered the Center of Alcohol Studies Library. Whose face deserved its very own … Read More
To the Jellinek Mystery: Keller – Thelma (Part 3)
Correspondence between Mark Keller and Thelma Pierce Anderson (1963-1990): Part 3 This is the third part of a series featuring a great treasure of the Center of Alcohol Studies Archives: … Read More
The Lay Supplements from the Yale CAS
In addition to publishing his scholarly articles in the first Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Jellinek’s ability to relate to broad audiences is demonstrated by launching a series of … Read More
To the Jellinek Mystery: Keller – Thelma (Part 2)
Correspondence between Mark Keller and Thelma Pierce Anderson (1963-1990) This is the second part of a series to feature a great treasure of the Center of Alcohol Studies Archives, the … Read More
Digitization of Prohibition and Temperance Movement Pamphlets
Here at the Center of Alcohol Studies Library, we are digging up and digitizing the archives. We have a vast and valuable collection of original pamphlets from the Temperance Movement … Read More
JSAD 75th Anniversary issue
In 1940, the United States was barely 7 years past the end of its experiment with the national prohibition of alcohol, and relatively little was known about the effects of … Read More
To the Jellinek Mystery: Keller – Thelma (Part 1)
Correspondence between Mark Keller and Thelma Pierce Anderson (1963-1990) Following up on the new discoveries in Mark Keller’s papers from the previous issue of the CAS Library Newsletter, several typed … Read More
Shelia Blume interview with Mark Keller
“The news is its medium, not its message”: Mark Keller’s turning point Sheila Blume, M.D., was a lecturer at the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies (student 1965, lecturer 1966 … Read More