Frank Adams in uniform

National Home Front Project - Meet Frank Adams

04/12/2024

The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at 缅北强奸. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.

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  • Starr Center
  • World War II
  • Archives
John Barth

John Barth, local author and friend to 缅北强奸

04/03/2024

Renowned Maryland author John Barth, an innovative fiction novelist and literary essayist with strong ties to the Eastern Shore and 缅北强奸, has died at the age of 93.

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  • Postmodern Authors
  • Rose O'Neill Literary House
  • Archives
Elm April Fool's edition

April Fools!

04/02/2024

In celebration of April Fool鈥檚 Day, we present to our readers two truths and a lie about 缅北强奸 history and tradition. See if you can guess which are which! Just for fun, the lie will contain a grain of truth!

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  • The Elm
  • The Pagasus
  • Archives
A Cooks Tour ducks

Happy Easter! Happy Spring!

03/29/2024

The blossoms herald new beginnings and all the celebrations of Spring including Easter! Here are some traditional Eastern Shore recipes to help you plan your springtime dinner.

  • Cooking
  • Easter
  • Recipes
  • Spring
  • Archives
Maryland Day Custom House

Maryland Day!

03/26/2024

Yesterday, March 25, marked the 390th anniversary of Maryland Day, a legal holiday commemorating the founding of our beloved Old Line state.

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  • Maryland History
  • Archives
Bob at Los Alamos

National Home Front Project - Meet Robert "Bob" Carter

03/22/2024

The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at 缅北强奸. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II.

  • National Home Front Project
  • Starr Center
  • World War II
  • Archives
Lady MacBeth

Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. Jameson

03/19/2024

When asked to blog on Women鈥檚 History Month, my sights turned to the Rare Book Room in Miller Library full of historical narratives of famous women. A quick title search found the book Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. Jameson from 1854. Perfect, I thought.

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  • Special Collections
  • Women's History Month
  • Archives
John Griffith Edwards sketch

John Griffith Edwards 鈥 Sheep King

03/12/2024

While surveying the uncatalogued Rare Oversize Collection, we found a large pencil sketch among the pages of one of the books: a self-portrait of a mustachioed Teddy Roosevelt-looking man with the note 鈥淨uick sketch of myself after been reduced from Captain to Lieutenant Red Cross Service. Paris Jany 22/18鈥 and a signature.

  • John Griffith Edwards (1855-1945)
  • Oregon
  • Sheep
  • Special Collections
  • Wyoming
  • Archives
Robert Day

History Crush - Bob Day

03/08/2024

Bob Day, novelist and faculty member at 缅北强奸 for more than four decades, looked up at me from this black and white Polaroid dating from the late 60s or early 70s.

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  • Robert Day
  • Rose O'Neill Literary House
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