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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.
In Alphabetical Order
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A World Both Foreign and Familiar
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Fostering Hope and Community in an Internment Camp
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A Treasure Trove of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early National Periods
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Making Sense of Chaos
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Written Memories of Three Generations of Women (1915-1966)
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Pieces of a Past Life
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Preserving Memories with Oral History
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<html><body><p>In addition to an impressive archive of rare books, periodicals, photographs, and other physical documents, Swem Library's Special Collections manages the <
The Sixty-Year Diary
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Applying Organization and Discovering Significance
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"Why can't everything just be online?!?!"
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I am a self-proclaimed craft nerd
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<html><body><p>I freely admit: I am a self-proclaimed craft nerd.
My time in Special Collections
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From Copy Machines to Tobacco Farmers
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<html><body><p>How often have you stopped to think about the wonder that is the copy machine?
You never know what you may find
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I am not an archivist
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<html><body><p>I am not an archivist. Old and fragile documents have scared me for as long as I can remember.