ALA Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week

10/07/2025

It's American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Here's a look at some books that are consistently challenged.

  • American Library Association
  • Banned Books
  • Censorship
  • Libraries
The First Kiss movie poster

The First Kiss lost to time

09/30/2025

A lost Hollywood film was shot at Washington College.

  • Fay Wray
  • Gary Cooper
  • Silent Films
  • The Collegian
  • The First Kiss
  • Archives
Robin Hood title page

Robin Hood

09/23/2025

Robin Hood, written by Paul Creswick and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, was originally published in 1917. Creswick adapted the fairytale of Robin Hood, as originally told in 1377 in William Langland's Piers Plowman.

  • N.C. Wyeth
  • Paul Creswick
  • Robin Hood
  • Special Collections
  • Rare Books
Negative with vinegar syndrome

Vinegar Syndrome

09/16/2025

If ever a blog post needed Smell-O-Vision.

  • digitization
  • film preservation
  • photographic negatives
  • vinegar syndrome
  • Archives
Cover

New Life in New Lands: notes of travel by Grace Greenwood, 1873

09/12/2025

In 1873, American writer Grace Greenwood set out on a journey that would take her far from home. Her book, New Life in New Lands: Notes of Travel, is her record of those adventures.

  • Descriptive Travel
  • Grace Greenwood
  • Travel log
  • United States
  • Rare Book Collection
Title page

The Christiana Riots of 1851

09/09/2025

In our Maryland Rare collection is a book, The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch by W. U. Hensel. This volume tells the story of one of the most violent conflicts in response to the Fugitive Slave Act. Written for the 60th anniversary, our edition includes a few extras.

  • Christiana Riots
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Fugitive Slave Act 1850
  • Maryland Rare Collection
Freshman girls with books

Welcome to Washington College!!

08/19/2025

A big Welcome to the Class of 2029 and all our returning students! Happy Move-in Day!

  • Dorms
  • Freshman
  • Student life
  • Archives