Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007

Cover of Oregon Humanities Spring/Summer 2007
Kathleen Holt
EDITOR
Jennifer Viviano
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Resources: Secrets

Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age by Alasdair Roberts (2006)

Coalition of Journalists for Open Government

Codes, Ciphers, Secrets and Cryptic Communication: Making and Breaking Secret Messages from Hieroglyphics to the Internet by Fred B. Wrixon (2005)

Common Cause

The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett (1988)

Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Legacy Project

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang (1988)

Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C. G. Jung

National Freedom of Information Coalition

National Security Archive

The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore by William Lutz (1997)

"Open Secrets" by Malcolm Gladwell, in the New Yorker, January 8, 2007

Open the Government

"Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (1950)

Post Secret

Project on Government Oversight

"Richard Corey," a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Secrecy and Publicity: Dilemmas of Democracy by Francis E. Rourke (1966)

Secrecy Wars by Philip Melanson (2002)

Secrecy: The American Experience by Patrick Moynihan (1999)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber, in the New Yorker, March 18, 1939

Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1997)

Secrets: A Left Bank Book edited by Linny Stovall (1996)

Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation by Sissela Bok (1983)

Three Case Histories by Sigmund Freud

The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung

Published in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue of Oregon Humanities.

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