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Some Things About Joseph Eyer
Written by Laura Auketayeva In 1974, a doctoral student at the Penn Biology Department named Joseph (Joe) Eyer was in the process of crossing disciplinary borders in his scholarly work on social causes and health effects of stress. His research reflected an eclectic fusion of natural and social sciences. However, it is his unpublished personal…
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The “Theatricals in Philadelphia” Scrapbooks: Or, How Yesterday’s Old Stuff Became the Treasure Trove of Today
Written by Siel Agugliaro If you work in an archival repository, you know that no matter how uninteresting or randomly assembled a collection may appear, it probably meant a lot to whoever decided to put it together. Archivists are also used to dealing with the hyperbolic language of the auctioneers from whom collections are sometimes…
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Heroines Behind the Scenes of War
Written by Alexis Morris World War II provides much of the lore and mystique which fuels the modern American culture. From movies, books, and television documentaries, it is hard to escape the particular monopoly this time period has on popular media. When it comes to women of World War II, media tends to focus on…
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“Heavenly Monsters”: Horace Howard Furness, William Shak(e)spe(a)re, and the Furness Libraries
Written by Siel Agugliaro “You could not believe that he was true. He was as a picture, or as a character of imagination.” When author John Jay Chapman first met famous Shakespeare scholar Horace Howard Furness, he could hardly contain his astonishment. Claustrophobically surrounded by the books and Shakespeariana of his study in rural Wallingford,…
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“If a Woman Had Been Mayor”
[Ed. Note: Today’s post is by Prof. Zachary M. Schrag from George Mason University. We are very grateful to Prof. Schrag for visiting the Penn Libraries for his research and volunteering to write about what he found.] From May 6 through 8, 1844, Protestant nativists battled Irish Catholic immigrants in the streets of Kensington—then an…
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B. Z. Goldberg, Politics, and Sholem Aleichem
Written by Hope Jones Having worked through fifteen of the 104 boxes of the B. Z. (Ben Zion) Goldberg Papers, I can definitely say that these papers are unique in many ways. The primary reason being that much is written in the Yiddish language. B. Z. Goldberg, born in 1885 in Olshani, Russia, wrote for…
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