During 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, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsIn 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. -
May 28, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsA daguerreotype of a young Baltimore merchant, the first victim of a bitter, homicidal political era, resides in the Special Collections Research Center in Swem Library—a ghostly message from the past. -
May 14, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsThe Reverend Curtis W. Harris is best known for his role in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., though he has not been studied closely by historians. -
February 27, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsLandrum passport, Grace Warren Landrum Papers -
February 1, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsAt the close of the eighteenth century, a series of revolutions broke out throughout the Atlantic World. -
January 15, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsGreat News! The Office of the Bursar Records have been digitized and are available for researching, right from your computer. -
December 10, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsAs the holiday season begins, we thought it appropriate to highlight a recent addition to our collection that coincides with the festivities of the season. -
November 12, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsOn December 25, 1918, Edith Neele Gibbons, of Cleveland, Ohio, was aboard the S. S. Coronia en route to London. -
October 29, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsThis year is the 200th anniversary of the release of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.