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"His Soul is Marching On": Artifacts from the Raid on Harpers Ferry

Posted January 17, 2018

<html><body>On the night of Sunday October 16, 1859, twenty-three men emerged from the woods surrounding the town of Harpers Ferry, which sits at the confluence of the Potomac

Basque in the Archives

Posted November 22, 2017

<html><body>Down in the belly of Special Collections sits a mysterious blue velvet box.

Family Donates Civil War Diary of Henry Alexander Scandrett

Posted November 13, 2017

<html><body>This past spring Sharon Summers, Charles W. Scandrett, Janet S. Hunt, Barbara J. Kaufman, and Sandra S.

Must Love Dogs: 11/11/18

Posted November 8, 2017

<html><body>In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, effectively ending World War I.

Processing Reveals Trading Cards of Decades Past

Posted October 25, 2017

<html><body>As a child of the 90's, I'm pretty familiar with trading cards.

John Marshall Letters Document Writing of George Washington's Biography

Posted August 30, 2017

<html><body>In December 2016, David B.

"The Looted Book"

Posted August 16, 2017

<html><body>Institutional knowledge is an awesome thing and something that is often taken for granted and/or overlooked.

Mosaic Intern's Work Offers Glimpse of Artistic Text

Posted August 9, 2017

<html><body>What do Indiana Jones and the Content Services Mosaic Intern have in common?

Instruction in Special Collections: A Closer Look at SCRC's Recent Acquisitions

Posted August 2, 2017

<html><body>With a goal of not only collecting and preserving texts and objects for future generations, the Special Collections Research Center is devoted to acquiring books an

An Intern's Experience in Special Collections

Posted July 19, 2017

<html><body>From the warm and welcoming reading room to the frigid ground floor stacks, the Special Collections Research Center offers a wealth of historical resources, right a

"[T]o be published in the usual places": The proclamation of William & Mary as King and Queen

Posted July 5, 2017

<html><body>What is the difference between printing and publishing? This is perhaps something many of us don't think about, but there is a difference.

A Lover of Words Reveal'd

Posted June 28, 2017

<html><body>Swem Library holds two editions of A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c., but it is in the earl

Bingo Finds his Way to Belarus: Yiddish Dog Books in the Interwar Period

Posted June 21, 2017

<html><body>Many of the treasures in Special Collections don't actually live in the stacks downstairs but are instead housed in Swem Library's Offsite Stacks (SOSS).

Printing Anti-Spanish Propaganda for European Purposes

Posted May 31, 2017

<html><body>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