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Printing Anti-Spanish Propaganda for European Purposes
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<html><body><p>It may seem like Spanish empire in the Americas would have little to do with European politics, but we should not assume that the Atlantic world of the sixteenth an
The ties that bind: How the decay of a binding shows its construction
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<html><body><p>Swem Library has a great many books in very bad bindings. Most modern books, for instance, are held together only by glue at the spine.
The World Before QWERTY
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<html><body><p>Can you type without looking at the keyboard? This used to be a skill taught to people who wanted secretarial or clerical jobs.
Believable Lies
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<html><body><p>The island of Taiwan, once commonly known in the West by the Portuguese name of Formosa, has recently resurfaced in the news in connection with the One China policy
Propaganda and the Beginnings and End of Spanish America
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<html><body><p>The arrival of Europeans in the Americas was an event of global importance, and its effect on the people already living here was devastating.
Lasting Impressions: Printing from the Fifteenth Century to Today
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<html><body><p>In the basement of Swem Library is a room used mostly for storage. Along two walls are machines and wooden cases full of drawers.
Art in the SCRC Collections
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<html><body><p style="text-align: left;">SCRC has an active instruction schedule during the academic year, as professors from all departments bring their students in to
All Wrapped Up: The Montebourg Manuscript
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From the Cradle of Printing into the Classroom
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<html><body><p>One of the titles we will be showing in two upcoming instruction sessions this week, the 1483 <a href="