Fans of Downton Abbey are eagerly anticipating the U.S. premiere of Season 4 on Jan. 5, when the British television drama resumes with events unfolding in the early 1920s. A trip to Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections offers a glimpse ...
“Downton Abbey” season four premieres Jan. 5 on WSKG-TV, but you can have a sneak peek when you join us for a special ‘tea and talk’ — and a celebration of all things Downton — Thursday, Dec. 19 at the ...
CRREO, the Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach, has launched a new blog on New York State history. The first three entries explore the stories of Jupiter Hammon, Gilded Age Castles of the Thousand Islands, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. ...
Albert Einstein’s mind might soon be a little easier to navigate. The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein will be made available, in digital form, by the publishing company Tizra, according to a news release. The digitization of The Collected Papers, originally published by Princeton University ...
John Hessler discusses Renaissance cartographer Johannes Schöner. Hessler is senior cartographic reference specialist in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of “The Naming of America: ...
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine ...
The story is told of Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin and John Adams sharing a bed in a room with one window while staying in a New Jersey tavern in 1776. Adams, afraid of the night air, closed the window. “Oh!” ...
The complete archive of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is to be digitised and put online for free public use. The project, to be known as All Tolstoy in One Click, is the brainchild of Tolstoy’s great-granddaughter Fyokla Tolstoya, and will take ...
Historical Chinese documents describing Tibet during China‘s Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and showing the ancient financial and messaging service of the period, have won a major UNESCO recognition. A meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the “Memory of the World Register” has decided ...
“We have published all the Politburo materials from our archives for the years 1919–32, as well as all the materials we have from the so-called Joseph Stalin fund – that is, every single document relating to Stalin’s life and work ...