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"[W]hy must I always suffer every misfortune which happens": An eyewitness account of revolution in the streets
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<html><body><p>The quotation in the title of this post is from a letter about an 1890 revolution in Buenos Aires known as The Revolution of the Park.
Basque in the Archives
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<html><body><p>Down in the belly of Special Collections sits a mysterious blue velvet box.
Family Donates Civil War Diary of Henry Alexander Scandrett
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<html><body><p>This past spring Sharon Summers, Charles W. Scandrett, Janet S. Hunt, Barbara J. Kaufman, and Sandra S.
A Lover of Words Reveal'd
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<html><body><p>Swem Library holds two editions of <u>A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c.</u>, but it is in the earl
SCRC's Exhibition Now Open at the Muscarelle Museum of Art
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<html><body><p>On February 11 the exhibition, <a href="https://libraries.wm.edu/e
Beautiful Penmanship
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Assassination News Breaks into Everyday Life
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Check Please!
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<html><body><p>In my current project at the SCRC, I have the good fortune of being able to check transcriptions from our <a href="