Sciurus volans. The flying squirrel. / Guajacana [Persimmon tree], Mark Catesby. Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (London, 1731-1743 [i.e, 1729-1747]). Vol.2, pl.76. Mark Catesby spent a total more »
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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 »
Image via Wikipedia The Libraries has a huge variety of materials available on Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., ranging from his own writings to biographical, historical and even artistic studies. 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 »