“The Bretton Woods Transcripts: New Findings” with Kurt Schuler, Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Stability; Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury; co-editor of The Bretton Woods Transcripts The 1944 international financial conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire established the IMF and the World Bank, and has shaped the international monetary system for nearly 70 years. […]
Leon Davidson Flying Saucer Collection
The flying saucer has been a meme in the U.S. at least since Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting near Mt. Rainier, but discs in the sky have "appeared" in global manuscripts from Japan through Europe for hundreds of years. The post-war 20th-century explosion of interest is inextricably bound up with the Cold War, nuclear weaponry, and […]
ONLINE EXHIBIT– “The Unwritten History”: Alexander Gumby’s African America
This online exhibit explores the efforts of Alexander Gumby to create a documentary history of African-American achievement in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. An influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance, Gumby compiled a scrapbook collection of approximately 300 volumes in support of his project, filled with news clippings, photographs, pamphlets, handbills, original artwork, manuscripts, and […]
599 Years Ago Today
Today, 24 January, five hundred and ninety-nine years ago. The future pseudo-cardinal of S. Onofrio told those guys to pay the wine bill, for pete's sake! Proof lies in this library's Smith Documents 0300, and here's a picture of it. (Click on the image to see a larger size.) It's signed, "J., evesque de Saint […]
Human Rights Watch/Americas Watch Division Records are now available for research
Human Rights Watch/Americas Watch (AmW) was established in 1981 as an outgrowth of the Helsinki Watch Committee, the AmW division promotes human rights in the Western Hemisphere. It concerns itself particularly with harassed human rights groups in repressive countries. AmW, for example, assists Latin American monitoring organizations in disseminating information about oppressive practices. It also […]