{"id":3403,"date":"2025-06-04T20:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/alcoholstudies-archives\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2025-06-24T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:01:22","slug":"exhibit-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/alcoholstudies-archives\/exhibit-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit 1: “Firsts” from the First"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"screenshot\"<\/a>As announced last month<\/a>, the Alcohol Studies Archives Exhibit was soft-launched and added to the RU Libraries Digital Exhibits page<\/a>. The current, updated version features 51 pages with 403 images and 101 documents, with many links to related items in RUcore\u2019s Alcohol Studies Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The original exhibit page on the Omeka platform shown below (redirected to the new exhibit by now) had four topics. The new exhibit expanded significantly on three of them, incorporated Publications into the “Firsts,” and added two brand new ones: Mark Keller Collection and Temperance Tales.<\/p>\n

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The exhibit now is structured into five sections, showcasing \u201cfirsts\u201d in alcohol studies<\/a>, including the Summer School of Alcohol Studies<\/a>, related to the Center. Two prominent scholars, E. M. Jellinek<\/a> and Mark Keller<\/a>, are featured through one-of-a-kind documents and artifacts preserved exclusively at Rutgers. The section on Temperance<\/a> explores this historical movement through the lens of the Archives as a research resource, illustrating how the materials continue to support scholarship at the Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the official opening of the exhibit, a series of posts will describe its five distinctive components with a goal to collect feedback, starting with\u00a0\u201cFirsts\u201d from the First.<\/a><\/span> part of the original Alcohol Studies exhibit on the Omeka platform. Stay tuned for more posts with insider information on the content, selection criteria, and the process.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>About the title “Firsts” from the First<\/h4>\n

This exhibit borrowed the title from a series called Classics of the Alcohol Literature<\/em><\/a>, the primary source of many seminal articles in the field of alcohol studies. These are early writings on alcoholism published in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol<\/em><\/a> with comments by prominent scholars of the field from 1941 to 1946.<\/p>\n

The articles were also collated in a rare book with the similar title. The Digital Alcohol Studies Archives made all of them available in 2023, s<\/span>ee the original <\/span>Table of Contents<\/a>\u00a0and a full list with links<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first journal: QJSA<\/h4>\n

The oldest substance-related publication in the United States, called originally the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol,<\/em> helped establish the study of substance use as a legitimate area of scienti\ufb01c investigation. Founded by Howard W. Haggard<\/a>, M. D., director of Yale University\u2019s Laboratory of Applied Physiology, <\/span>QJSA\u00a0<\/em>evolved from early efforts at abstracting, indexing, and collecting literature on alcohol. Now called the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs<\/em><\/a>, it is the longest-running addiction journal in the US, published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. based at the <\/span>Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies<\/a> at <\/span>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to sample documents and images to illustrate the history of this prestigious publication, the journal page of the exhibit<\/a> also benefits from many articles published in the Journal over decades. They provide more insight into the evolving field of alcohol studies as presented and preserved in scholarly articles, for example:<\/p>\n