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Stephanie McCurry, PhD ’88, will return to Binghamton University to give a public lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, in FA-Casadesus Recital Hall. McCurry, professor and undergraduate chair of history at the University of Pennsylvania, is a specialist in ...

NY Folklore Society Graduate Student Conference Legends and Tales November 12, 2010 Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY For over 65 years, the New York Folklore Society (NYFS) has held an annual conference, typically with guest speakers, such as master artists and ...

Famous poet’s writings as a Federal employee shed new light on his life and work Washington, DC…The National Archives today announced the identification of nearly 3,000 Walt Whitman documents written during his service as a Federal government employee. This trove ...

The Civil War collections of Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections were featured in this week’s Inside Binghamton University Magazine. An exhibit to highlight materials from the collections and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War is on display ...

The quest for the “real thing” is not always satisfied. Among the most beautiful and sought after objects of antiquity are the books and manuscripts created hundreds of years ago, and carefully preserved in libraries. Unfortunately, these are not always ...

Uncle Tom’s cabin; or, Life among the lowly was a novel written by American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Living in New Brunswick, Maine, the wife of a Bowdoin college professor, and mother of six children, Harriet Beecher Stowe, ...