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History of the United States by Charles Goodrich

It’s Election Day!

11/04/2025

Let’s look at one of the many books on democracy in our Rare Book Collection: "A History of the United States of America" by Rev. Charles Goodrich.

  • American Politics
  • Charles Goodrich
  • United States History
  • Rare Book Collection
A History of Witches and Wizards, 1720

Witchcraft Accusations in Early Maryland

10/28/2025

During the 1600s, when Maryland society was just forming out of groups of immigrants primarily from the British Isles, early settlers were leaving communities in the grip of a politically- and religiously driven paranoia regarding the devil and witches.

  • Colonial Maryland
  • Halloween
  • Witch Trials
  • Witches
  • Maryland Collection
Bell and Bradley

Outfit of the Day

10/24/2025

Women in the Workplace

  • Amanda Bradley
  • Clothing
  • Doris Bell
  • Outfits
  • Pegasus
  • Vintage Fashion
  • Archives
Homecoming parade 1980

Homecoming Weekend 2025!

10/21/2025

Fall Family Weekend is a time for students, families, alumni, faculty, staff, and the local community to come together and enjoy events all over campus and Chestertown. Let’s look at how Homecoming has been celebrated in the past.

  • Alumni
  • Fall Family Weekend
  • Homecoming
  • Archives
Katharine Hepburn MGM publicity headshot

Katharine Hepburn and the Eastern Shore

10/14/2025

Connecticut can lay claim to actress Katharine Hepburn, but her roots are firmly in Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

  • Hepburn family
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • Kent County
  • Rev. S. S. Hepburn
  • Shepard's Delight
  • Archives
ALA Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week

10/07/2025

It's American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Here's a look at some books that are consistently challenged.

  • American Library Association
  • Banned Books
  • Censorship
  • Libraries
The First Kiss movie poster

The First Kiss lost to time

09/30/2025

A lost Hollywood film was shot at Washington College.

  • Fay Wray
  • Gary Cooper
  • Silent Films
  • The Collegian
  • The First Kiss
  • Archives
Robin Hood title page

Robin Hood

09/23/2025

Robin Hood, written by Paul Creswick and illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, was originally published in 1917. Creswick adapted the fairytale of Robin Hood, as originally told in 1377 in William Langland's Piers Plowman.

  • N.C. Wyeth
  • Paul Creswick
  • Robin Hood
  • Special Collections
  • Rare Books
Negative with vinegar syndrome

Vinegar Syndrome

09/16/2025

If ever a blog post needed Smell-O-Vision.

  • digitization
  • film preservation
  • photographic negatives
  • vinegar syndrome
  • Archives