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Special Collections will be closed Thursday, November 26-Sunday, November 29 for the Thanksgiving break. We will re-open at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 30. Enjoy your break! ...

Using an off-the-shelf pencil eraser and electrostatic technology first pioneered 2,500 years ago, University of York scientists have settled one of the great puzzles of pre-Gutenberg commercial publishing. Pocket Bibles, painstakingly inscribed by hand in their tens of thousands in the universities ...

Marilyn Gaddis Rose, 85, distinguished service professor of comparative literature and co-director of the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP), died Sunday, Nov. 15. Gaddis Rose received her bachelor’s degree in English from Central Methodist College in Fayette, Mo. in ...

A redesigned website now offers access to hundreds of freedom petitions brought by enslaved people in Washington, D.C., in the first half of the 19th century. The site—O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law and Family—showcases the diversity of ...

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward–from Witchcraft to ...

Guillotines and numbing satire figure strongly in an archive of images from the French Revolution, made available by Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France About 14,000 high-resolution images are in the set, which is divided into Parliamentary Archives and Images of the ...

Jenna Wolfe ’96, former NBC TODAY Lifestyle and Fitness Correspondent, will speak to students at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in AM-189. Faculty and staff are invited, and those planning to attend should RSVP online. During this program, Wolfe will talk ...

Undelivered letters shed light on 17th-century society by Maev Kennedy Thousands of pieces of correspondence, many still unopened, were stored away by Dutch postmaster and are now being examined by academics The collection includes letters from aristocrats, spies, merchants, publishers, ...

Guy Fawkes : or, The gunpowder treason by William Harrison Ainsworth. London : G. Routledge and sons, limited, [18–?]. Call number:  PR4002 .A1 1876 v.6 Rare Book Collection. This book is housed in the Special Collections department of the Binghamton University Libraries, and available ...

The Times…They Are a Changing, Harpur College in the Mid 1960s explores the newly completed campus and student life, their traditions, events and activities through publications, yearbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.  The exhibit was created in honor of the mid 1960s ...