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We’re asking for your help in preserving local history! The Libraries is documenting and collecting items from the Women’s March that took place in our community on Saturday, January 21, 2017. Items from other marches that people from the Binghamton area may have ...

Join us in the Main Gallery of the Binghamton University Art Museum, March 16, from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. for a panel discussion exploring Kurdish culture and history Panelists will discuss their current research and findings, and how these ...

A Glimpse of Everyday Life in Iraqi Kurdistan  January 26 – May 20, 2017 University Art Museum (lower level gallery) Through black-and-white photography, this exhibit will highlight the everyday life of Iraqi Kurds during the 1960s and the 1980s-1990s.  The photographs are part ...

Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and actor and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. His topsy-turvy  world of cross-eyed rubes, bearded villains, bathing beauties and bumbling cops falling off cliffs, out of buildings, and throwing custard ...

Binghamton University’s Photo of the Day featured in Dateline [April 22] shows visitors to the exhibit “Graphic! Lurid! Sensational! Exploitation and B-Movie Posters” currently on display in the University Art Museum. Guest curated by Brian Wall, Associate Professor of Cinema and Art ...

Five of Binghamton University’s Civil War Collections have added to New York Heritage, a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of New York State. The ...

Opening night of the Graphic! Lurid! Sensational! Exploitation and B-Movie Posters exhibit at the Binghamton University Art Museum  was a great success! The exhibit features posters from the John McLaughlin Collection located in the Binghamton University Libraries’ Special Collections. Guest Curator, Brian Wall, ...

Special Collections was pleased to welcome George T. Link’s daughter, Virginia Link Murray, and her daughter, Meg Murray Dupont on Wednesday, April 6. George T. Link is the brother of Edwin A. Link. Read more about the Link Collections here ...

Monsters, aliens and 50-foot women to invade the University Art Museum By John Brhel MARCH 31, 2016 In today’s movie world, when everything seems to be part of a franchise, when everything is all about the next installment, when Marvel ...

Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare in Special Collections :  Selections from the Max Reinhardt Archives and the Rare Book Collections April 23, 2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare has been regarded by many as one of ...