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Monochrome photograph of four men sitting at table with two men in background, all wearing suits, handwritten caption below

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

Posted by: Rachel McNellis

Film poster with red background, showing Freud looking to camera

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

Posted by: Josh Levy

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

Thomas Jefferson and the Rumford Fireplace

Posted by: Julie Miller

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

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

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

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

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Of Note: Happy New Year from Journalist Bess Furman

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

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

Posted by: Josh Levy

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

Posted by: Julie Miller

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

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara