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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Happy Geek Pride Day!
Did you know today is International Geek Pride Day? Here in Special Collections, we’re celebrating with a selection from the Comic Art Collection. This collection contains over 3,500 catalogued comic book titles and hundreds of pieces of original art from … Continue reading
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Presses and Preachers, or, What an Incunable Can Tell Us about Technology and Faith
The Special Collections and Rare Book department recently acquired four incunables,[1] and we’ll be featuring them individually on the blog. This post highlights Sermones de adventu by Roberto Caracciolo (Venice, 1474), a book interesting for what it can tell us … Continue reading
Posted in Rare Book Collection, Special Collections
Tagged early printing, incunabula, sermons, venice
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New Digital Exhibit
Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade, 1870-1940 has recently been mounted as a permanent exhibit on the website of the Special Collections and Rare Books department. This virtual exhibit explores the intersections between ethics and the pseudo-science of eugenics in … Continue reading
