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Abraham Lincoln : his book; a facsimile reproduction of the original with an explanatory note by J. McCan Davis is our featured book for February 2011. Part of the Howard Collection, this diminutive book holds facsimiles of newspaper clippings of ...

The Book of Common Prayer, with its disappearing fore-edge painting of the ruins of Byland Abbey, North Yorkshire, is stored in the Special Collections section of the Glenn G. Bartle Library. Photo by Jonathan Cohen Book reveals rare fore-edge painting ...

Maria Mazziotti Gillan is a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.  She will be presented with this award – along with John Grisham, Elizabeth Nunez, and recipient of the Editor’s Award, Jonathan Galassi — at ...

Most Americans have learned the essential narrative of the American Revolution: Our Founding Fathers led proud Patriots to fight against British rule and ultimately prevailed. Rarely mentioned are the thousands of Tories, or Loyalists, who supported the British and fought ...

Binghamton University Special Collections and University Archives Spring 2011 Hours: Monday – Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Closed Weekends ...

Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the ...

Daguerreotype, Cazenovia Fugitive Slave Law Convention, August 22, 1850. Held at the Madison County Historical Society. Frederick Douglass is seen in group photograph on cover of North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom by ...

Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives Holiday/Intersession Hours: December 20 – 31 — Open by appointment only January 3 – 22 — 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Monday – Friday ...

The Library of Congress has released 700 portraits of Americans taken during the Civil War. In remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Liljenquist Family donated their collection of almost 700 ...

The book of common prayer : Oxford: : Printed at the Clarendon Press, by J. Cooke and S. Collingwood … and sold by E. Gardner, at the Oxford Bible Warehouse … London., 1818. Call number: BX5145 .A4 1818. The Special ...