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Imagining the Shakers, written by Robert P. Emlen and by published Hamilton’s Richard W. Couper Press, was recently awarded the Ewell W. Newman Book Award.
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LITS recently hosted the Oneida-Herkimer-Madison BOCES District’s 2019 Battle of the Books. More than 100 middle and high school students from eight regional school districts competed.
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A collection of primarily 20th century resources on African-American history in Utica and the Mohawk Valley was recently donated to the Burke Library Special Collections by Kirkland Alumna Cassandra Harris-Lockwood K’74.
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More than 200 posters plus souvenir pins, banners, toys, even cigarettes, comprise Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca’s unparalleled collection of Soviet-era propaganda recently donated to the Burke Library Special Collections.
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Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie recently presented a paper at Historic Deerfield’s annual Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife.
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Representatives from the Brothertown Indian Nation (BIN) along with Marshall Historical Society members visited the Burke Library of Hamilton College to view two bound BIN manuscript record books held by the Special Collections of Burke Library.
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Christian Goodwillie, director and curator of Special Collections and Archives at Burke Library, traveled to Saint Kitts and Nevis from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1. Goodwillie is a member of the Charlestown (Nevis) World Heritage Committee, which is seeking recognition of Charlestown as a World Heritage City from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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President David Wippman has announced that Joe Shelley, assistant vice chancellor and CIO, information technologies, at the University of Washington Bothell, will become the liberal arts college’s next vice president for libraries and information technology.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Nhora Lucía Serrano curated a book exhibition on “The Columbian Exchange” that displays rare materials from Burke Library’s Special Collections and four new recent acquisitions printed in Mexico.
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“I’m hoping that I can give this document to an organization that will take good care of it and allow other people to study and appreciate it.” These words, spoken by Jean Waite on an episode of PBS’s History Detective in 2012, prompted Hamilton’s Director of Special Collections Christian Goodwillie to place a call that, three years later, led to a donation to the college’s Communal Societies collection.
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