On August 23, 1812, Robert Stevens wrote to his parents in Rhode Island from New Orleans in the aftermath of a hurricane, “a Scene of horror & devastation.”
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Posted on June 25, 2019From the Special Collections Blog"Dog and Cat"This summer we're publishing a series of blog posts written by students for -
Posted on June 19, 2019From the Special Collections BlogDuring World War II, thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to the United States to help fill labor shortages created by the war. -
Posted on June 7, 2019From the Special Collections BlogIn early 1792, Thomas Dobson, a prominent Philadelphia printer in the middle of printing the first American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, took a much smaller commission: William Currie’s An Historical Account of the Climates and Diseases of the United States of America. -
Posted on June 3, 2019From the Special Collections BlogRecent visitors to Swem Library will have noticed a change in the exhibit facing the front entrance.