In honor of August being Art Appreciation Month, The Meaning of Art by Herbert Read is our featured book for this month. One of the greatest art critics in Britain to specialize in abstract art of the early and mid-20th century, Herbert Read won ...
Extra! Extra! German Immigrants in the United States Were Germans the most influential group in the ethnic press? For a time, yes! In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Germans came to the United States in droves. For decades, Germans ...
Curator of Rare Books, Beth Turcy Kilmarx, and Special Collections Assistant, Mary Tuttle, have created a fascinating exhibit highlighting items from The Tilly Losch Collection, which is held in Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections. Tilly Losch was born in 1904 ...
By Rachel Coker n The Lobster Kings, Alexi Zentner weaves a story that feels at once perfectly realistic and like a legend borrowed from another era. The novel, published this month by W.W. Norton, arrives just three years after Zentner’s critically ...
Did you know that the 9th of June was International Archives Day? All around the world, archives and special collections professionals unite their voices on the 9th of June to make people understand why it is important to support archives and the profession. ...
To celebrate LGBT Pride Month, Special Collections’ featured book for June is The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day edited by Byrne R.S. Fone. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the poems of Allen ...
Binghamton University Special Collections & University Archives will be closed on Thursday, June 5 and Friday, June 6. We will re-open on Monday, June 9, at 10:00 a.m. ...
Twenty-one speeches were delivered throughout the course of nine Commencement ceremonies held on campus this past weekend. Watch them all online. ...
In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map, just under three feet square, titled a “Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States.” Based on the population statistics ...
Ralph Garruto, research professor of biomedical anthropology, has been awarded the SUNY Medallion of Distinction, a system-wide recognition of “exceptional individuals who have distinguished careers … but who have never been eligible for appointment to Distinguished Faculty Rank” as outlined ...