In celebration of Black History Month, we remember Barbara Jordan’s 1987 Commencement address at Middlebury. She received an Honorary Doctor
…Continue Reading A tribute to Barbara Jordan on her birthday
In celebration of Black History Month, we remember Barbara Jordan’s 1987 Commencement address at Middlebury. She received an Honorary Doctor
…Continue Reading A tribute to Barbara Jordan on her birthday
Today in Special Collections, our oldest text faced the library’s newest technology. Our cuneiform tablet, a beer token from 2,000 BCE,
Stacks & Tracks. The Special Collections & Archives radio show. We’re back. From the bowels of the library basement come wonders like you’ve never seen. (And still can’t, because it’s radio.) Wednesdays, 12p-1p 91.9FM | iTunes radio | listen online | on your phone Visit us. Monday-Friday, 1-5p. You never need an appointment, or an excuse, to stop by….Continue Reading Stacks & Tracks, on the radio. Tune in.
In honor of the Vermont primary tomorrow, we remember that every vote counts – even in a small town. The tiny
When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first human steps on the moon on July 20, 1969, Armstrong famously uttered, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” 47 years later, Special Collections & Archives launched ArchivesSpace (go/aspace), a search tool that organizes the diverse and unique archival and manuscript collections stored in the Davis […]…Continue Reading One Giant Leap For Mankind, and for Special Collections (ArchivesSpace has landed.)
In the 1940s, a revival in interest in Gamaliel Painter, one of Middlebury’s founders and early benefactors, saw the birth
Just as coming across full page ads for Chesterfield cigarettes used to be part and parcel of reading the latest