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Tall tales, scholarly spats, and a whole lot of research: A look at the Arthur Scouten papers
Written by Cory Austin Knudson It was Sunday, September 17 1944, and the Battle of Arnheim had begun. The British Second Tactical Air Force along with the American 8th and 9th Air Forces initiated intense bombing and strafing raids on Nazi garrisons, barracks, and anti-aircraft guns in and around the capital of the province of…
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Weird, Weird World: Some strange world’s fair memorabilia
While cataloging Print Collection 47 Michael Zinman collection of World’s Fairs and Expositions material, I came across a significant amount of stuff — I don’t really have another word for it — that I didn’t expect. Any time I process a collection, of course, I inevitably run up against things that don’t seem to “fit,”…
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Sherman Frankel’s Stand against the End of the World (and Dirty Streets)
Written by Cory Austin Knudson For nearly thirty years, Sherman Frankel’s professional life revolved around what could happen in thirty minutes. Specifically, his life revolved around what could happen in the period between the moment an intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a nuclear warhead is launched and the moment it reaches a target up to…
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The Bumpy Story of the Phrenological Fowlers
Written by Cory Austin Knudson Evidently, I am an open and amative person, quick to laugh and always ready to be the center of attention. Though I have a tendency toward pinching pennies, I will always go out of my way to help a friend. I would make for a good salesman or restaurateur; I…
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From Philadelphia To Madeira: The Early U.S. and the Transatlantic Wine Trade
Written by Cory Austin Knudson “Think of this wine for instance,” said old Sol, “which has been to the East Indies and back, I’m not able to say how often, and has been once round the world. Think of the pitch-dark nights, the roaring winds, and rolling seas—” “The thunder, lightning, rain, hail, storm of…
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A Curious Story of Two Banned Soviet Jewish Poems
Written by Laura Auketayeva Benjamin Waife, better-known under his pen name B.Z. (Ben Zion) Goldberg, was an American Yiddish journalist, writer, historian, and son-in-law of Sholom Aleichem, who made a significant contribution to recording and interpreting the history of Soviet Jews. In one of his notes about his visit to the Soviet Union, Goldberg writes…
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