IBM has lasted for 100 years because the company has a soul, journalist/author Kevin Maney told the Binghamton University Forum at its annual dinner on June 11. And that soul has always been in Endicott. “IBM has been important, ...

The Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections department is home to many fascinating historical works.  One of our more compelling books is George Washington Williams’ A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865.    The Special ...

The History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries offer 23 volumes of Charles Darwin’s works for perusal. Charles Darwin’s 23 printed volumes are listed in chronological order and linked to high resolution versions in the University of ...

New York’s 86th & Lexington Barnes&Noble will host a special event for Pride Month — Melanie La Rosa will screen her new documentary on Diane di Prima, followed by a reading by special guest poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. The event ...

Twitter event #AskArchivists To get more attention for archives on Twitter there will be a Twitter event #AskArchivists on 2011 June 9th. This Twitter event is managed by Charlotte S H Jensen of the National Museum (National Museet) in Copenhagen ...

First published in 1877, Jessie Fothergill’s best known work, The First Violin is told in first-person from two points of view. It begins with May Wedderburn living a quiet existence in a small town in England. Her quiet is disrupted ...

For the first time in its history, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is making a collection of its historic records and photographs from the Holocaust period available online. The website enables the public, especially Holocaust survivors and their families, to ...

Sandro Sticca, professor of French and comparative literature, has dedicated years to his students and to CEMERS, as well as to Mediaevalia, an interdisciplinary journal of medieval studies worldwide that he founded and edited from 1975-2008. In his honor, Robert ...

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined Ancestry. com, the online family history resource, to help people research the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors. The museum and Ancestry announced Tuesday that the museum will provide its millions of records ...

The Confederacy was not only challenged militarily by the might of the Union, but politically by two groups of people that Southern leaders took for granted, a Binghamton University alumna and University of Pennsylvania professor said at a lecture on ...