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Trial Database: Archive Finder (formerly ArchivesUSA)

Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and the cumulative index to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland (NIDS UK/Ireland), previously available on CD-ROM. ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,600 repositories and more than 175,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces

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Kristen Nyitray June 24, 2013

NARA Launches Founders Online

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create Founders Online and make freely available the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. Through this website, you can read and search

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Kristen Nyitray June 19, 2013

Conference: “The Italian Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century England”

Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4 p.m. Center for Italian Studies Conference: “The Italian Literary Canon in Nineteenth-Century England” Organized by Giuseppe Gazzola, Stony Brook University, with presentations by Professors Anthony Oldcorn, Brown University, Giuseppe Gazzola and Robert Viscusi, CUNY/Brooklyn. The event includes a rare books exhibit from the Special Collections

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Kristen Nyitray March 7, 2013

Robert Browning Bicentennial Celebration, Thursday September 20

Please join us at a Bicentennial Celebration for poet and playwright Robert Browning on Thursday, September 20 at 4 p.m. Featured speakers: Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library Edward Giuliano, President, New York Institute of Technology Rosanna Warren, poet and scholar, University of Chicago. Victorian High

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Kristen Nyitray September 12, 2012

“Letters from a Spy”: James Jay, 1808

The university’s James Jay letter (1808) is featured in the August 2, 2012 edition of The Village Times Herald. James Jay (1732 -1815), American physician and politician, and elder brother of John Jay, supplied medicines to George Washington during the American Revolutionary War and developed an invisible ink used by

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Kristen Nyitray August 3, 2012

Chinese Cuisine Event

Wednesday, April 25, 2012  at 1 p.m. CHINESE CUISINE: ITS HISTORY, ART, AESTHETICS & CULINARY APPEAL by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman founded, and for nineteen years, has edited the award-winning magazine Flavor and Fortune. It is the first and the only American English-language quarterly about Chinese

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Kristen Nyitray March 28, 2012

Special Collections co-sponsors public program on American Revolution, Civil War

Special Collections and the Three Village Historical Society collaborated on a private grant sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. The project was awarded full funding ($3,000) and will support “Rebels, Resistors, and Rioters,” a public program of lectures on the American Revolution and the Civil War. Confirmed presenters are Natalie S. Bober,

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Kristen Nyitray October 12, 2011