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Wide Awakes at the Watkinson
[Posted by Jim Casey, a graduate student in the English Department at the University of Delaware] As others have noted, The Watkinson Library holds some really fascinating and unmatched materials, ripe...
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A Japanese Prayer Book at the Watkinson
[Posted by Richard Mammana, graduate student at Yale University] In connection with an ongoing project on Anglican liturgical translations, I visited the Watkinson Library in February to consult a...
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St. Francis in a Christmas Keepsake
[Posted by Patricia Appelbaum, Ph.D., an independent scholar from Amherst, Massachusetts who is working on a book under contract with the University of North Carolina Press] What I found at the...
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Jazzed about an archive!
[Postted by Mario Dunkel, a visiting scholar from TU Dortmund University, Germany] [Image: W.C. Handy in Battery Park, 1954] I am currently working on a project that explores early jazz historiography,...
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Scarce newspaper on War of 1812
[Posted by Samuel Crompton, Professor of History, Holyoke Community College] Where else but the Watkinson would I find original, bound copies of the little-known newpspaper THE WAR, printed in New York...
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The Americanization of a British hymn
[Posted by Glenda Goodman, a visiting researcher on a fellowship sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America] “It is now translated to America”: British Hymns in the Revolutionary Era The...
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Prayer-books for Native Americans
[Posted by Professor Sarah Rivett, Princeton University] Housed in the American Indian Vocabulary Collection of the Watkinson Library are two manuscript prayer books from the eighteenth century,...
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Notes on Bertrand Russell
[Posted by Bernard Linsky, Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, bernard.linsky@ualberta.ca] I am a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of...
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