This tour guide provides a glimpse into how Japan saw itself shortly after World War II as well as its perception of how other countries saw Japan.
To welcome the WAC community back to campus, we would like to take a break from the regularly programmed Special Collections and Archives post and instead highlight some books from our circulating collections. These books encompass a range of genres- from memoir to dark fantasy- but all belong to my favorite made up category of “back to school books for adults”.
The Washington College Archives recently received a generous donation from Rena Fowler; those funds allowed us to digitize some of our oldest audiovisual materials, including film reels, reel-to-reel audio tapes, audio cassettes, and VHS tapes.
*And for those seniors who are still plugging away on edits and revisions to your Senior Capstone projects, we see you. Hang in there. You’re almost there!
It is one of the most iconic buildings on campus, and it is only fitting that it should bear the name of our first President, the Reverend Dr. William Smith.
Since its first celebration at Washington College in the spring of 1967, May Day has involved different traditions that have changed with the times. Last year, we covered the earliest May Day traditions, when free cases of beer were given to the first student arriving at the local liquor store sans clothing on May 1, and naked photos graced the pages of the Elm in the days following.
The Clifton M. Miller Library was built in 1970 on the location of the old Cain Gym. Before this, the library had been located in several different buildings.
The archives hold a vast amount of material and material types, some of which are easier to preserve and make accessible than others. Often it is the more recent items that have the most issues. The pages of an 18th-century letter book are made of sturdier material than a newspaper from the 1930s. A letter from the Revolutionary War will be readable for centuries while your emails will be lost to obsolescence in a few years. And a videotape from the 1980s… well, that requires some outside help.
The American Library Association’s National Poetry Month poster this year features Maryland’s first African American Poet Laureate of Maryland, and just the second woman to hold the position, Lucille Clifton. The lines come from her poem, blessing the boats. She visited Washington College and gave a talk and poetry reading in March 1989 and received an Honorary Doctor of Letters in the 1989 commencement ceremony.
April is National Poetry Month so come and explore what the Library & Archives of Washington College have to offer.
