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Panama Canal, Then and Now
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<html><body><p>The Panama Canal is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
A Recent Discovery: Eliza Abrams's Music
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All Wrapped Up: The Montebourg Manuscript
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<html><body><p><drupal-media data-align="right" data-caption="Montebourg Manuscript wrapper (Collection of French Language Manuscripts, 1633-1942, Mss.
"Exceptional in Any Age": The Library of Lady Jean Skipwith
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<html><body><p>The Library of Congress's reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's library now receives many visitors who wander through the remarkable library of a remarkabl
Doing Archaeology in the Archive
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Nineteenth-century Valentines
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<html><body><p>Before superhero and princess Valentine's Day cards, we had Lord Byron.</p>
Sir Henry Chicheley after Bacon's Rebellion
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<html><body><p>In Swem Library's Special Collections Bound Manuscript Collection, there is a handwritten transcription of some documents from the <a href="
Beautiful Penmanship
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