Happy Thanksgiving!
11/22/2024
Here is a peek into the Washington College Archives & Special Collections potluck Friendsgiving!
- Cookbooks
- Cooking
- Holidays
- Thanksgiving
- Special Collections
Washington's Dispatches
Genealogy Research with Library Resources
11/19/2024
With the Thanksgiving holiday break just around the corner, many of us will soon be spending time with our extended families. This is the perfect time to ask older relatives about their youth, and to talk about family stories: immigration stories, stories about hard times, birth and love stories, and ‘legends’ that have been passed down about family origins.
- Ancestry
- Databases
- Family Research
- Genealogy
- Maryland Reference Collection
Honoring Prominent Figures in Campus History: Goldstein Hall
11/12/2024
Every WAC student has had a class, lecture, or visit to the Writing Center in Goldstein Hall.
- Goldstein Hall
- Louis L. Goldstein
- Archives
A Laugh A Day Keeps the Doctor Away
11/08/2024
Irvin S. Cobb’s ‘A Laugh A Day Keeps the Doctor Away’ was a great entertainment spectacle of the early 20th century. What makes the text uniquely sought after is that it was curated from a list of the humorous author’s favorite stories, with no intention other than to bring its reader joy.
- Irvin S. Cobb. Humor
- Rare Book Collection
- Special Collections
Beyond the Presidential Horse Race
11/05/2024
This event billed as a “good old-fashioned debate” between Barber B. Conable, Jr., the Republican Representative from New York from 1965-1985, and Richard W. Bolling, the Democrat Representative from Missouri from 1949-1983, occurred on October 27, 1984, on the eve of the Regan/Mondale presidential election.
- Audiovisual
- Elections
- Politics
- Archives
Election Fun: Campaign Buttons
11/01/2024
One of the more enjoyable parts of politics is campaign ephemera.
- Campaign Ephemera
- Elections
- Louis Goldstein
- Pins
- Archives
Local Haunts: Chester Cemetery
10/29/2024
Welcome to Halloween week, the time of year when we celebrate all things spooky and mysterious. In a town as old and full of history as Chestertown, whether or not you believe in ghosts, you can be sure that invisible memories are lurking around every corner. Is time linear, or is it happening all at once? In indoor and outdoor spaces, what exactly separates events in 2024 from events in the same space two or three hundred years ago?
- Chester Cemetery
- Ghosts
- Halloween
- Haunted
- Maryland Collection
The Dead Do Not Talk: Theories of Paranormal Communication in the Early 20th Century
10/25/2024
In this authoritative and clearly decisive 20th century commentary on the supernatural author Julien Proskauer makes clear his opinion on the lack of our ability as humans to communicate with the supernatural.
- Julien Proskauer
- Magic
- Magicians
- Scams
- Seances
- Spiritualism
- Special Collections
Persuasion by Miss Austen, an American First Edition
10/22/2024
A recent purchase by the Washington College Archives now means we have a complete Jane Austen American First Edition.
- First Editions
- Jane Austen
- Persuasion
- Special Collections
Honoring Prominent Figures in Campus History: Constance Stuart Larrabee Arts Center
10/15/2024
The Constance Stuart Larrabee Arts Center once had a location other than its current site at 100 Gibson Avenue. When it was originally dedicated in 1990, it was located in the building now occupied by the Career Center.
- Arts
- Constance Stuart Larrabee
- Photographers
- Archives