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Maryland Day!

03/26/2024

Yesterday, March 25, marked the 390th anniversary of Maryland Day, a legal holiday commemorating the founding of our beloved Old Line state.

Maryland Day
Maryland History
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National Home Front Project - Meet Robert "Bob" Carter

03/22/2024

The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at Washington College. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.

National Home Front Project
Starr Center
World War II
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Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. Jameson

03/19/2024

When asked to blog on Women’s History Month, my sights turned to the Rare Book Room in Miller Library full of historical narratives of famous women. A quick title search found the book Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. Jameson from 1854. Perfect, I thought.

Shakespeare
Special Collections
Women's History Month
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John Griffith Edwards – Sheep King

03/12/2024

While surveying the uncatalogued Rare Oversize Collection, we found a large pencil sketch among the pages of one of the books: a self-portrait of a mustachioed Teddy Roosevelt-looking man with the note “Quick sketch of myself after been reduced from Captain to Lieutenant Red Cross Service. Paris Jany 22/18” and a signature.

John Griffith Edwards (1855-1945)
Oregon
Sheep
Special Collections
Wyoming
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History Crush - Bob Day

03/08/2024

Bob Day, novelist and faculty member at Washington College for more than four decades, looked up at me from this black and white Polaroid dating from the late 60s or early 70s.

Authors
Robert Day
Rose O'Neill Literary House
Writers
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National Home Front Project - Meet Hartley Bayne

03/05/2024

The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at Washington College. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.

National Home Front Project
Starr Center
World War II
Archives

Honoring Prominent Figures in Campus History: The Legacy of Hodson Hall

02/27/2024

Most campus buildings bear the names of prominent donors or institutional figures. Every day, students eat at Hodson Hall Commons, the more recent annex to Hodson Hall and the Hynson Lounge. The name Hodson has been heard more recently due to the settlement of the Hodson Trust and the scholarship opportunities it will afford students.