Just before the holidays, the Archives & Special Collections acquired a very special book, The Life of Issac Mason as a Slave.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
Finals are complete and now it’s time to celebrate with friends and family. See you in the New Year!
Here is a peek into the Washington College Archives & Special Collections potluck Friendsgiving!
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.
Every WAC student has had a class, lecture, or visit to the Writing Center in Goldstein Hall.
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.
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.
One of the more enjoyable parts of politics is campaign ephemera.
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?
