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Rosenbergs

National Home Front Project - Meet Joan Rosenberg Kovachi

10/17/2023

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. By pulling together in the spirit of wartime Americans, we can ensure that future generations hear their voices, and that our country never forgets its past. For this short entry, we’d like to share the story of Joan Rosenberg Kovachi.

  • National Home Front Project
  • Newark Public Library
  • Starr Center
  • World War II
  • Archives
Third Base In My Home

Remembering Brooks Robinson

10/12/2023

This distinctive signature will be familiar to many baseball fans and Marylanders. It belongs to the man who has been known as “Mr. Oriole,” “Mr. Hoover,” and “The Human Vacuum Cleaner,” a man who is almost synonymous with Baltimore baseball…. legendary third baseman, Brooks Robinson.

  • Baltimore Orioles
  • Brooks Robinson
  • Maryland Special
  • Archives
Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

10/10/2023

Aubrey Beardsley was an English artist whose name you might not know, although you may recognize his work.

  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • Gibbes Museum of Art
  • Rare Book Collections
  • Archives
Washington College

History Crush- Leah Hackett Frederick

10/06/2023

It’s easy to see why Leah Frederick, class of 1936, was described by this anonymous Pegasus writer as “bewitching everyone that she meets on the campus” even without her “wide smile” on display

  • Class of 1936
  • Pegasus
  • yearbooks
  • Archives
Washington College

Your own folder in the President’s papers

10/03/2023

In many of the Presidents’ papers, there is typically a folder titled “Discipline”. Most of these folders contain varied infractions of co-ed parties or alcohol on campus so when the whole folder is about one student, you want to know more about them.

  • Alumni
  • Class of 1930
  • Archives
Students

Student Activism at Washington College

09/26/2023

With our location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, it is easy to think of Washington College as a sleepy little liberal arts college content to prepare its students for the world beyond academia as the Chester River lazily ripples by.

  • Activism
  • Civil Rights
  • Archives
Outfits

Outfit of the Day

09/22/2023

Though a yearbook primarily functions as a memory book of past times and events by those who experienced them, to outsiders who lack sentimental attachments and baggage, a yearbook serves a different purpose altogether.

  • Pegasus yearbooks
  • Student life
  • Archives
Li-Yo Chan

National Home Front Project - Meet Lo-Yi Chan

09/19/2023

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.

  • Asian Americans
  • National Home Front Project
  • Starr Center
  • Upper West Side Seniors
  • World War II
  • Archives
Washington College

Welcome Freshman!

09/08/2023

Things to bring to college, learning a new campus, and experiencing a new group of people are all things our incoming classmates are experiencing.

  • Freshman
  • Student experience
  • Archives