A massive collection documenting the U.S. textile industry is set to become one of Cornell University Library’s largest acquisitions ever. The collection, from the Osborne Library at the recently closed American Textile History Museum (ATHM), is expected to fill eight ...
Project to open rare and valuable collection to the world is finally up and running. People gather in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican during Pope Francis’ weekly general audience on May 1. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP/GETTY IMAGES) By Lesley Ciarula ...
T. Corey Brennan, associate professor in the Department of Classics at Rutgers University, will speak on “New Light on Old Papal Rome: Recent Finds from the Archive of the Boncompagni Ludovisi” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, in LH-9. The ...
April No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beautous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name ...
A Readers’ Series event will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in S1-149, with Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Gillan is a recipient of the Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature, Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award ...
Today we venture to western France in the novelette, Shell-Fish (subtitled Or the Influence of Diet on Procreation) by the French author Émile Zola. The story centers around Monsieur Chabre, a forty-five year old “retired grain merchant with a big fortune,” ...
Meg Leja, assistant professor of history, will speak on “Penance as Medicine: Intersecting Genres in Early Medieval Thought“at noon Wednesday, March 29, in LN-1106, the IASH Conference Room. This paper interrogates parallels between the treatment of physical and moral pollution ...
Posted by Samantha Schoenfeld on March 23, 2017 For nearly seventeen years, Binghamton students have been filled with Bearcat pride. Today students can attend basketball games with a guarantee of seeing Baxter and the BU Zoo. However, if you attended ...
Today we celebrate World Theatre Day! And who better to celebrate with than the incomparable Max Reinhardt whose spectacular, theatrical productions played a leading role in establishing the director as the key figure in theatrical production and an artistic coordinator whose ...
On this National Flower Day, Special Collections would like to introduce you to The Language of Flowers. Delightfully illustrated by noted 19th-century illustrator and writer, Kate Greenaway, this petite tome includes a list of over 200 plants and their figurative equivalents. ...