Another blog post on President Richard Nixon’s activities during the Watergate investigation. The first one can be found here, the second one can be found here, and the third one is here. Following the release of the White House Oval Office audiotape transcripts in April 1974, Nixon faced additional requests for the tapes themselves. While […]
Welcome back, students, to the first week of school! At Special Collections & Archives (SC&A), we wanted to make sure that our website redesign would be ready in time for the students’ return. On our homepage at http://sca.gmu.edu/, we now have a navigation bar located on the left side of the browser to help users […]
During the fall of 2012, Special Collections & Archives mounted an exhibition celebrating the career of American book artist and author Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) who worked in the medium of publishers’ bindings, designing book covers and “decorating” texts from 1890 through 1926. Armstrong began her thirty-year freelance career by creating covers for the McClurg Publishing […]
A new finding is available for the George Mason University Office of University Relations newsclippings collection. Lauren Clark, a GMU history graduate student, processed the collection as part of the requirements for her archives administration class during the 2012 spring semester. Since the early years of George Mason College, University Relations (formerly known as Public […]
As many of our loyal readers may know, this past April we created a short video on proper book care standards as part of National Library Week titled The FUNdamentals of Book Care in Five Easy Lessons. The film was a great success and is now being used all over the globe to help educate […]
