Historical Chinese documents describing Tibet during China‘s Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and showing the ancient financial and messaging service of the period, have won a major UNESCO recognition. A meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the “Memory of the World Register” has decided ...
“We have published all the Politburo materials from our archives for the years 1919–32, as well as all the materials we have from the so-called Joseph Stalin fund – that is, every single document relating to Stalin’s life and work ...
The Swiss government today started a new Internet portal to help claimants, museums and researchers track down art looted by the Nazis that has found its way to Switzerland, an art-market hub before and during World War II. The new portal offers advice ...
Prof. Pei-heng Yan presents his works of calligraphy to Dean John M. Meador, Jr. of the Binghamton University Libraries. Professor Pei-heng Yan presented a gift of original calligraphy to the Binghamton University Libraries on June 11, 2013. Yan is a ...
Mission to Moscow by Joseph E. Davies, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938, is the Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections Book-of-the-Month for June 2013. The book is made up entirely of confidential dispatches to the State ...
EBSCO has partnered with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) to provide digital access to a comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. Containing more than 7,600 periodicals—eclipsing all other online resources in this area—these collections include digitized ...
Join members of the local Watson community, past and present, for an all-campus celebration of the Watson School’s 30th anniversary from 3-5 p.m. Friday, June 14, in the ITC Rotunda. Refreshments will be served. ...
Renowned thinker, writer and speaker Ismail Serageldin discusses the restoration of the Library of Alexandria. Ismail Serageldin is the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and chairs the Boards of Directors for each of the Egyptian library’s affiliated research institutes and museums. ...
Last month, the Library of Congress finally finished a project they started all the way back in 2008: they finished digitizing an archive of 467 panoramic postcards from the early 1900′s. All of these postcards are now available online for interested ...
Eight ceremonies, 3,000 graduates and some incredible speeches. Check out all of the Commencement highlights and remarks online. See also Students Walk Across the Stage to Become Alumni ...