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Friday, October 25, 2019

Lies Hunt In Packs

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 The word GREED is printed in bold black letters down the golden spine and all over the golden cover of this stunning little square book. I...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Portable Fuchs

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In 1542, Leonhard Fuchs published his great herbal. We have a copy of that first edition. It is a beast of a folio, richly illustrated and d...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Room for a Few Girls: Co-Education in the Dartmouth Outing Club

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In 1971, the issue of coeducation that was sweeping the college at large came to the Dartmouth Outing Club. Each campus organization was t...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Confederate Chemicograph Backs

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On the eve of the American Civil War's commencement, the newly formed Confederacy rushed to generate their own currency. The first bills...
Friday, October 11, 2019

The Poetry of Mary Tallmountain

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This Monday is Indigenous Peoples' Day here in the United States, a day that celebrates and honors Native American peoples, their hist...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Butchering a Tree

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We just picked up a nice guide for timber merchants from 1823. It contains everything you need to know to go into the timber business--the q...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Still in the News

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Originally published in the New York Packet in March of 1788, Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 65 and 66 were compiled along with the re...
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