This article appeared in the Saturday, December 28, 2013 issue of the Binghamton Press and Sun Bulletin. ...
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 ...
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 – 1817), son of music historian Charles Burney and brother of writer Fanny Burney, represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The ...
An integrated research environment that allows users to search across two primary source collections: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (to which the Libraries already have licensed access) and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (a trial database). Access Artemis Primary Sources The trial is available until December ...
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts, Pinpointed! Libraries all over the world have digitized medieval manuscripts and made them available online for free. Through this site, you will have access to thousands of digitized medieval manuscripts available online for free. Go and discover beautiful ...
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 ...
Louis VII parchment and 17th-century travel diary among historic Anglo-French documents in new exhibition A selection of beautiful manuscripts that have lain quietly in Canterbury Cathedral for hundreds of years are being brought to life in a new digital archive ...
The countess finished dictating her letter and peered out the hotel window at the snow swirling onto Fifth Avenue. Highclere Castle seemed a world away from Manhattan, and yet she wanted to be kept apprised of all that was going ...
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!” ...