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Five Questions with Arlene Balkansky, Reference Specialist, Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room

Posted by: Danna Bell

Arlene Balkansky loves working with the full range of people visiting Newspaper and Current Periodical reading room, whether on-site or remotely: the teenager working on a National History Day project, the family interested in comic books, the university student, the teacher participating in the Library’s Summer Teacher Institute, the genealogist, the professor, the filmmaker, the author, and more.

One woman watches as another examines with a magnifying glass an ornate, decorative image on a printed page

The League of Nations: Conflicting Opinions in Editorial Cartoons

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

One hundred years ago, on January 25, 1919, the delegates to the Paris Peace Conference approved a proposal to create the League of Nations. Nearly a year later, on January 16, 1920, the League held its first meeting with its stated principal mission of maintaining world peace.