Only at Rutgers: Unique Resources Related to Selden D. Bacon
Sociologist Selden D. Bacon is best known at Rutgers for being the CAS Director who brought the Center of Alcohol Studies to Rutgers from Yale in 1962, no small feat … Read More
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Promoting the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection
Even if it’s going to be a never-ending project, the Digital Alcohol Studies Archives Collection is now in good enough shape that it can be promoted widely. We even have … Read More
Only at Rutgers: Unique Resources Related to E.M. Jellinek
E. M. Jellinek has been described as “the Renaissance Man who brought alcohol studies out of the Dark Ages” by Dr. Thomas Babor, Editor-in-Chief of JSAD (2015-2023), recipient of the … Read More
Treasure of the Month: The First Summer School of Alcohol Studies
Eighty years ago it must have looked like a rather ambitious attempt to bring together a diverse group of people on the Yale University campus for a six-week summer program … Read More
William L. Keaton, a Black Pioneer of Alcohol Counseling
In 2010-2011, the CAS library received 32 boxes of archival materials from the widow of a trailblazing alcohol counselor and graduate of both the Yale and Rutgers Summer Schools of … Read More
Treasure of the Month: Alcohol, Cats, and People
Alcoholism is occasionally referred to as “Jellinek’s Disease” in honor of E. M. Jellinek, whose works, including the book The Disease Concept of Alcoholism, published in 1960, has left a … Read More
The “Disease Concept” at the Alcohol Archive
According to alcohol historian William White, The disease concept of alcoholism “stands as the most widely cited (and least read) literary artifact of the modern alcoholism movement.” Published by Hillhouse Press, … Read More
Treasure of the Month: Bunkyana
“Bunky” was Jellinek’s nickname, fitting the scientist, the humanitarian, and the “screwball,” as his second wife Thelma Pierce Anderson remembers him in a letter to Mark Keller. Contrary to what … Read More
Treasure of the Month: Jellinek’s Book Donation
Each item I look at brings up memories from the past 15 years, the Alcohol Library, and conferences where we presented the treasures of the Alcohol Archive Collection. I’ll try … Read More
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The Alcohol Studies Archives is the online version of the Special Collections and Archives that used to be housed at the Alcohol Library maintained by the Information Services Division at … Read More