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Scenes from Behind the Wall: Images of East Germany, 1989-1990
In late December 1989 two young men, Page Chichester and Helmut Brinkmann, were drinking and watching a soccer match on television in the city of Bonn in what was then called West Germany. Brinkmann suddenly suggested that they tour East Germany, beginning the next day. The two stayed up all night planning their hastily-conceived trip. […]
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Dahmen musical manuscript at Mason!
Steven K. Gerber, Music/Theater Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Music, was recently published in NOTES, the Journal of the Music Library Association (v70 n2 p259). In it he explains the significance of a recently acquired and digitized music score. Here is the entry! “George Mason University Libraries has acquired and digitized the only extant holograph […]
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Nixon during Watergate
Another blog post on President Richard Nixon’s activities during the Watergate investigation. The first one can be found here, and the second one can be found here. On November 17, 1973, Richard Nixon famously declared “I’m not a crook” to a room full of Associated Press managing editors. According to the
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Set models in the Federal Theatre Project personal papers
There are a number of recent additions to the FTP personal papers collection. The number of boxes in the collection has gone from 9 to 29 since the finding aid was originally created in October 2012. This is mainly due to a processing decision that instead of processing each collection individually we would put them […]
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