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Archive: September 2017 (2 Posts)

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A Little Glimpse at Treaty Research at the Law Library of Congress – International Day of Peace

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Yesterday was International Day of Peace and since, historically speaking, peace often meant treaties between various countries, it seemed a good occasion to talk about doing treaty research.  When I began working at the Law Library of Congress over 11 1/2 years ago, I was excited by the variety of questions from patrons.  But there …

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Middlemarch and the Rocky Road to the Reform Act of 1832

Posted by: Margaret Wood

I spent my summer vacation at Dickens Universe on the University of California Santa Cruz campus. In anticipation of the bicentenary of George Eliot’s birth, this year’s book was Middlemarch, rather than the usual novel by Dickens.  I had promised the blog team that I would write a post on Middlemarch after attending this literary fest. …