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Title: The American University Washington, D.C., c1989
Date: 1989
Publisher: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Description: The American University experience as told by students and faculty in their own words. Brief comments cover the classroom, social life, student body composition, and the opportunities available to students living in the nation's capital.
Subject: College choice; Documentary films; Motion pictures; Universities and colleges -- United States
Local Identifier: American_University_VHS710_access
Type: promotional materials; VHS
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96440
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Feminist futures
Date: 2000-03-20
Creator: bell hooks
Publisher: American University
Description: "bell hooks, social critic, feminist scholar, activist, poet, memoirist and teacher, explores the topic of love and how it has been perceived in relation to feminism. A question and answer session follows the lecture. [...] The Millennial Feminist Legal Theory Lecture with bell hooks presented by The American University Women's & Gender Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences and the Gender, Work & Family Project of Washington College of Law. [...] Lecture recorded March 27, 2000, at the Washington College of Law, Mooers-Morella Ceremonial Courtroom, Room 603."
Subject: Feminist ethics; Feminism; Love
Subject -- Personal Name: hooks, bell, 1952-
Local Identifier: au_feministfutures
Type: Lectures
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:85587
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: A global education
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Luis E. Hestres
Publisher: American University
Description: "The American University experience as told by students and faculty in their own words. Brief comments cover the classroom, social life, student body composition, and the opportunities available to students living in the nation's capital."
Subject: Education, Higher; College choice; Universities and colleges -- United States
Local Identifier: au_globaleducation
Type: Promotional films
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:85586
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Historic Footage
Date: 1941
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Footage of American University campus ca. 1941. Footage includes buildings on campus, students arriving on campus for orientation, a Varsity Football game, an Alumni Varsity Basketball game, students skiing in winter, May Day celebration, Choral club spring concert, a Varsity Tennis match, a performance of Play Much Ado About Nothing, Alumni Day, and Graduation. Also featured are campus administrators including Dean of Women Mary Louise Brown and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts George B. Woods.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- Students
Local Identifier: Historic Footage
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:85704
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Homecoming 1998: making AU
Date: 1998-02-18
Creator: Kerwin, C. M. (Cornelius M.); Goodman, Louis W.; Morris, Valerie; Berendzen, Richard; Arnold, George; Said, Abdul Aziz
Publisher: American University
Description: A recording of the "Making AU" panel discussion from American University’s 1998 homecoming. Recorded on February 18th, 1998.
Subject: Education, Higher -- United States -- History
Local Identifier: au_homecoming1998
Type: Lectures
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:94838
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: President Neil Kerwin interview from Mary Kennard’s Higher Education Law course, 06 February 2017
Date: 2017-02-06
Creator: Kennard, Mary E.; Kerwin, C. M. (Cornelius M.)
Description: Mary Kennard, former vice president and general counsel of the American University, interviewed President Neil Kerwin during her course Higher Education Law at the Washington College of Law. The interview was conducted in the months leading up to President Kerwin’s retirement and covers his academic career, reflections on his tenure as President of American University, as well as touching on several legal topics relevant to the course. This video is an edited excerpt of the class recording.
Subject: College presidents -- Interviews; Education, Higher; Universities and colleges
Local Identifier: Kerwin_WCL_Higher_Education_Law_2017Feb06
Type: video recordings
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70686
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Russell Lambert Film
Date: 1929
Creator: Lambert, Russell W.
Description: Footage recorded by Russell W. Lambert (Class of 1932), ca. 1929. Includes footage of Herbert Hoover's Inauguration and Parade (March 1929), the Library of Congress, students playing baseball and playing with a dog, children at a farmhouse with a rabbit, American University faculty and staff, and construction on campus.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- Students
Subject -- Personal Name: Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Local Identifier: Russell W. Lambert Film
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:85703
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Senator Joseph Biden at American University, November 13, 1988
Date: 1988-11-13
Creator: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
Publisher: American University
Description: Senator Joseph Biden speaks to the American University community about his attempted Presidential bid and the face of politics in America. Recorded November 13, 1988 at a Kennedy Political Union (KPU) event.
Subject: United States -- Congress -- Senate -- Biography; Economic sanctions, American.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Foreign economic relations; United States -- Foreign relations; United States -- Politics and government
Subject -- Personal Name: Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
Local Identifier: au_biden_1988
Type: Speeches
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:94902
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Washington Semester Program: since 1947
Date: 1996-09-20
Publisher: American University
Description: Promotional video for American University's Washington Semester Program, circa 1996.
Subject: Education, Higher; College choice; Universities and colleges -- United States; Washington Semester Program
Local Identifier: au_wsp_promo
Type: Promotional films
Collection: American University Historic Films and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:94988
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

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