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Grants Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection University Archives

February 26, 2018
Libraries receive $50,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation

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Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

February 19, 2018
Remembering William H. Gass: Resources for Exploring a Life in Sentences – Part 3

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Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection Rare Books

February 18, 2018
Special Collections Celebrates Valentine’s Day on Facebook Live

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Rare Books

February 06, 2018
Cordelia Baker: Teaching Bookbinding to Society Women

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Collections and Acquisitions Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

February 02, 2018
Hotch at 100: Entering WW2

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Film and Media Archive

February 01, 2018
Highlighting the Little Rock Nine Interviews

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Collections and Acquisitions Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

January 22, 2018
Washington University Libraries Acquire Papers of Author Joy Williams

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Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

January 19, 2018
Remembering William H. Gass: Resources for Exploring a Life in Sentences – Part 2

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Film and Media Archive

December 12, 2017
Documenting WWI: The Harlem Hellfighters in Men of Bronze

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Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

December 12, 2017
William H. Gass Remembered Around the Web

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Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

December 08, 2017
Remembering William H. Gass: Resources for Exploring a Life in Sentences – Part I

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Manuscripts/Modern Literature Collection

December 05, 2017
Highlighting Washington University Libraries’ Papyri Collection

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