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.”
June 2019
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October 28, 2020
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June 26, 2019"Dog and Cat"This summer we're publishing a series of blog posts written by students for
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June 19, 2019During World War II, thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to the United States to help fill labor shortages created by the war.
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June 12, 2019In 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.
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June 3, 2019Recent visitors to Swem Library will have noticed a change in the exhibit facing the front entrance.