Bill Cole (’70) shares the stories behind the names in Catherine Sheild's 20th-century Yorktown guest book.
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Nov 2019
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November 14, 2019Brielle Popolla compares an early twentieth-century travel account to a trip of her own. -
November 8, 2019Alissa “Ali” Zawoyski is William & Mary Libraries’ new University Archivist! -
November 5, 2019Learn more about the history of Ultimate Frisbee at W&M and how you can help make a lasting home for this sport in the archive!
Oct 2019
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October 23, 2019One book can tell several different histories. Learn more about the journey of a book that was stolen and later returned to the William & Mary library. -
October 16, 2019An inside look into reclassifying and describing an early geography of the world with woodcut maps, portraits, diagrams, and other illustrations that depict the world as it was known in 1628. -
October 2, 2019Jenna Hershberger explores the omnipresent moon imagery in a recent acquisition, the Josephine W. Shinholser Collection of Sheet Music.
Sep 2019
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September 24, 2019In honor of Banned Books Week, Ute Schechter explores censorship and early modern science through an investigation of a clandestine edition of Galileo's Dialogo. -
September 20, 2019Have you heard about textbook prices? National surveys indicate that students are now spending about $1200 each year if they purchase all of the textbooks required for their classes. This may be surprising to those of us who graduated from college some time ago, but the increase in textbook prices has far outpaced the increase in inflation, nearly doubling from 1998-2008 alone, and going up over 1,000% since 1977.
Aug 2019
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August 28, 2019Tracy Melton '85, member of the William & Mary Libraries Board of Directors, considers the words we use to describe crime and death in archival work. Read on to learn more about a nineteenth-century fatality recounted in the Galt Papers. -
August 23, 2019A 1677 document in Special Collections explores how the British used print and language to both build relationships with and exert control over Native peoples.