Did you know that Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day is celebrated every year on the last Monday of the month of January? Here at the Libraries we have many reasons to appreciate more »
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Today, in 1848, gold was discovered in California at Sutter's Mill. The Libraries has quite a few titles which chronicle the rise and fall of John Augustus Sutter. But while more »
Patrick Henry by George Bagby Matthews The Libraries announces a new fellowship founded by a bequest of Margaret P. Nuttle. The Margaret Henry Dabney Penick Resident Scholar Program supports scholarly more »
H. Wright Smith, Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born on this day in 1706. The Libraries recently published a printed lecture, Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity by Joyce more »
Journal des dames et des modes, 1914 Today would be a good day to choose to don a fabulous hat, tam, sombrero, turban, cappello, chapeau . . . the possibilities more »