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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Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.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 ...

In conjunction with the current exhibition The New York State Inebriate Asylum and Other ‘Abandonscapes’ by A.D. Wheeler, the Binghamton University Art Museum will host a public talk at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. The talk, titled “,” will be ...

On October 16, 2015, people gathered in Special Collections to hear Curator of Rare Books, Beth Kilmarx, and Professor of History, Sean Dunwoody, speak at the A Day in the Life: Painting a Picture of History event. Ms. Kilmarx spoke ...