Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses by Elizabeth Tucker, associate professor of English at Binghamton University. is the first book-length interpretive study of college ghostlore. Some of the best-known ghosts that she discusses are Emory University’s Dooley, who can ...
“The September 11 Photo Project is an open forum for display of photographs and words in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The project began as a grass-roots effort to collect material for anyone who wished to ...
Part of the Link Collections, Sea Diver: A Quest for History Under the Sea is our Featured Book for August 2009. “Sea Diver is Marion Clayton Link’s account of a extraordinary treasure hunt, the intimate log of the voyages of ...
“In spite of international award-winning productions, Iran’s cinema is underexposed. Because of the prevailing religious, political and social atmosphere in Iran, the country’s cinema remained stagnant for more than 50 years. Although the ‘new’ Iranian cinema had begun to develop ...
A Threefold Cord : or, A Precept, Promise, and Prayer from the Holy Scriptures : For Every Day in the Year measures just 8.1 cm high and is part of our Miniature Collection. This delightful little devotional book gives three ...
The Independent Third Reader: Containing Simple Illustrated Treatise on Elocution; Choice and Classified Readings; With Full Notes and a Complete Index by J. Madison Watson, American Book Company, c1880 is a text designed for instruction of elocution, pronounciation, and reading. ...
Binghamton, once known as Chenango Point, has since been affectionately called by several names: the Parlor City, one of the Square Deal Towns, Bingo-all appellations for a jewel of the southern tier of New York State. It is a city ...
Aleph, the Chaldean; or, the Messiah as seen from Alexandria by Enoch Fitch Burr is our featured book for March. According to a review in the Espository Times in 1897: “Aleph the Chaldean by E.F. Burr preserves the color and ...
In conjunction with the exhibit, “Garden of Delights: Spring Comes to Special Collections,” A Flora of the State of New York is the Special Collections featured book for February. Published by Carroll and Cook, Albany’s Printers to the Assembly, the ...
Ben Franklin’s Wit & Wisdom is a delightful little volume published c1960 by the Peter Pauper Press of Mount Vernon, New York. The introduction explains that the “wise sayings which follow come from many different numbers of Ben Franklin’s Poor ...