It may seem like Spanish empire in the Americas would have little to do with European politics, but we should not assume that the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was any l
The College of William and Mary was founded before the City of Williamsburg, the former in 1693, the latter in 1699.
Swem Library has a great many books in very bad bindings. Most modern books, for instance, are held together only by glue at the spine. Even modern hardcovers have the same binding.
On April 6, 1917 the United States entered World War I, then known as the Great War. A century later, objects in Special Collections reveal memories of Americans’ lives at wartime.
Can you type without looking at the keyboard? This used to be a skill taught to people who wanted secretarial or clerical jobs.
The island of Taiwan, once commonly known in the West by the Portuguese name of Formosa, has recently resurfaced in the news in connection with the One China policy.
The arrival of Europeans in the Americas was an event of global importance, and its effect on the people already living here was devastating.
Most of us, if we recognize the name Maurice Sendak, probably think of him as the man who wrote and illustrated the beloved children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are,” published in 1963.
On February 11 the exhibition, Written in Confidence: The Unpublished Letters of James Monroe, opened to the public.
An interesting old map, recently cataloged and made accessible in the Earl Gregg Swem Library Rare Books Collection at SCRC, bears witness to the transformation of W
