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Legacy of the Dead: Bub and the Blue-Collar American

By the mid 1980s in America, it was very clear that the manufacturing economy that had led the United States to unprecedented economic heights was crumbling like a corroded steel bridge.

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Legacy of the Dead: The Revolution Will be Militarized - Part 2

George Romero left his zombie films behind with the end of the Cold War, only to return to the genre with "Land of the Dead" in 2005.

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Legacy of the Dead: The Revolution Will be Militarized - Part 1

Unlike the alien landscapes and alternative futures of science fiction, the worlds of the zombie apocalypse are ours. They operate as allegories for the failures of government, social institutions, and the fragmentation of community. The zombie is our neighbor, the zombie is us.

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The Witches: Salem, 1692

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff is an exhaustive (and at times, exhausting) account of the accusations, imprisonment, trials and executions of fourteen women and five men.

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Legacy of the Dead: An Exhibit

"Legacy of the Dead" would not be possible without the generous support of CMU School of Drama Professor Emeritus and frequent Romero collaborator Barbara Anderson. A professor of costume design and construction in the School of Drama, as well as Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts un

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Legacy of the Dead: An Introduction

The Pittsburgh of 1960 was an incredibly different metropolis than the one we're attuned to now.  Along the Monongahela River, the coke ovens burned and the ore ran hot.  Construction of the 3,600 foot-long Fort Pitt Tunnels that connect the South Hills to the Fort Pitt Bridge had nearl

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Frankenstein Panel: Creation & Consequences

Tuesday, October 17 | 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 
Danforth Conference Room, CUC

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Frankenstein 200 Panel

Frankenstein 200 Panel Discussion: “Creation and Consequence”

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Open Access Week 2017

The University Libraries invites you to participate in Open Access Week 2017, an annual international event promoting open access to peer-reviewed work as a new norm in research and scholarship.

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Legacy of the Dead: A Tribute to George A. Romero

In remembrance of CMU alumnus and Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero, who passed away this summer, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries presents Legacy of the Dead: A Tribute to George A.