Elias Schwartz, 81, professor emeritus of English, died April 5, in North Carolina. Schwartz began his college education at the City College of New York, but completed his bachelor’s degree at New York University after his education was interrupted by ...
Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, announced today that it will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic by releasing the most comprehensive online collection of records relating to the passengers and ...
By Guy Gugiliotta. Published: April 2, 2012 For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war ...
Launched in 1992 by the Poetry Society of America and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Poetry in Motion, now known as Arts for Transit, is today one of the most popular public literary programs in American history. This outstanding program places poetry ...
“Trade Tokens of the Triple Cities, A Look into the Past” will be on display through the spring semester at Bartle Library. Photo by Jonathan Cohen Binghamton University’s Special Collections Department is currently displaying an exhibit titled “Trade Tokens of ...
Alan Lomax (right) with musician Wade Ward during the Southern Journey recordings, 1959-1960. Shirley Collins / Courtesy of Alan Lomax Archive Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs ...
World-renowned genre author Jeffrey Ford ’79, MA ’81 will give the annual John Gardner reading at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in the IASH Lounge, LN-1106, on the first floor of the Library Tower. The reading, sponsored by the dean ...
Today at a ceremony in Dallas, David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, Dr. Greg Bradsher, Senior Archivist and Robert M. Edsel, President of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art and author of The Monuments Men, announced ...
Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) announced today that the new Nelson Mandela Digital Archive is now live on the web, freely accessible to the global public. Google gave a $1.25m [8.6 million rand] grant to the Johannesburg-based ...
lot of ground was covered at the town hall meeting held Thursday, March 22, when President Harvey Stenger, four vice presidents and the director of athletics answered questions from students for nearly two hours in Lecture Hall 2. About 20 ...