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Posted January 13, 2025
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of William & Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award travel grants to faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support research use of its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists, filmmakers,…
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Written by Dan Du, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Charlotte (Special Collections Research Center travel grant recipient, 2023-2024)
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Rest in Peace, Colonial Clifford C. Neilson. We are honored to have your combat diary in our collections.
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How frequent was student dueling at William & Mary in the 19th century? Amy Weitzman weighs in!
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Has Special Collections acquired a Jamestown spy map from the Civil War era? Lindsay Bliss weighs in!
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The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of William & Mary Libraries is pleased to announce that it will award travel grants to faculty members, graduate students, and/or independent researchers to support research use of its collections. Writers, creative and performing artists, filmmakers, and journalists are welcome to apply.
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Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved, the week of its dedication, May, 2022
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Photography was a rapidly changing profession in the mid-19th century.
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The SCRC is now accepting applications for its 2023-2024 research travel grants.
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This post is written by one of our 2020-2021 Special Collections Research Travel Grant Recipients, Kevin James (University of Guelph).
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On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, Special Collections Research Center was delighted to collaborate with Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in welcoming over 25 guests and staff of the American Indian Initiative.
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Bring your four-legged friends to a tail-wagging celebration of Special Collections’ Chapin-Horowitz Dog Book Collection, the second largest collection of books about dogs in the United States. We’re opening our Reading Room for a full day of literary exploration and activities, with librarians and archivists on hand for chin scritches and belly rubs.
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Black History Month can trace its roots back nearly a century, to the work of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a historian of African American History.
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This post is written by Jennifer A. Merriman
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Valentine-related stereoviews are rare. There are many series of views that depict love, courtship, and marriage.
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Last year when I wrote about Santa stereoviews, I stated that I did not know of any stereoviews that depicted reindeer. Now, I stand corrected.
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Although National Thanksgivings were periodically proclaimed from Colonial times in America, Thanksgiving as a Holiday was not formally adopted until Abraham Lincoln declared a day of Thanksgiving in 1863.
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Pumpkins are squash plants native to Americas and did not make an appearance in Europe until the early 1500’s.
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Stereoviews offer a great window into the world of popular culture from the 1860’s into the 19230’s.
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The SCRC is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 round of Research Travel Grants.
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On the 17th of October 1834, a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl arrived on the shores of New York City. The ship’s passenger list included her name as “Auphmoy” which was later phonetically shortened to Afong Moy—because of this, we do not know her real Chinese name. So began Afong Moy’s story as the first known female Chinese immigrant to the United States.