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A Busy Morning in the Archives: Dr. Alexandra Finley’s Workshop with the Mahn Center
By Aidan Cox, Classical Civilization, ‘25 CRHC Spring Lecture Intern and Hester Lambright, History, ‘25 CRHC Spring Lecture Intern An Introduction to Dr. Finley’s Research with Primary Sources On April 1st, 2025, the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, in collaboration with the Central Regional Humanities Center, hosted Dr. Alexandra Finley, associate professor of history…
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Working with Film Negatives is Positively Fascinating
By Adrian Darden Kautz, History ’27, Digital Initiatives Assistant I have been working in the Archives & Special Collections Digital Initiatives unit since my first semester of college, and now I am about to finish my fourth semester! When I first took this job, I did not know much about digitizing historical materials, but I…
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Americana in Manuscript and Type: Piecing Together the Edward C. Fales Collection
By Alex Rienerth, ’25, MA in Literary History, 2024-2025 Graduate Assistant in Rare Books The Edward C. Fales collection was a bit of a mystery to me when I started working with it last semester. Many of the collections in rare books are extensively documented, including records from collectors that express their motivations and intentions…