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Of Note: From a Cow in a Chapel to the Berlin Blockade: Introducing Ambassador Philip C. Jessup

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Made at the Library: Outsider. Freud, In-Person Film Screening and Conversation with Director Yair Qedar

Cartoon of man dressed in blue coat standing with back to Rumford fireplace, pots on mantle above

Thomas Jefferson and the Rumford Fireplace

Made at the Library: Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy, with Elizabeth A. DeWolfe

Did Lucretia Garfield Really Say That? Sourcing the Dialogue in the Netflix Series Death by Lightning

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Of Note: Happy New Year from Journalist Bess Furman

Cover of a Christmas card with busy people, a rushing car, and speeding streamlined train at the bottom foreground, silhouetted skyscrapers with a setting sun beyond in the background, and a passenger plane flying overhead.

Dreaming of a Slow Christmas

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Of Note: George Washington and the Beaver Tail: An Unfinished Tale

A postcard with a black and white head and shoulders portrait photograph of Harriet Chalmers Adams, wearing a hat. The text of the postcard announces her upcoming travel to the Far East and subsequent availability for lectures in the U.S.

Founding a Community: The Society of Woman Geographers at 100