Graduate student assistant Eron Ackerman recently completed a finding aid for the James J. McDonnell transportation collection. The collection contains documents, photographs, and publications about highway and interstate construction in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. Recently, researchers have shown particular interest in the documents and photographs about the Henry […]
A finding aid is now available for the Martin Wohl papers. Martin Wohl (1930-2009) was an influential economist most famous for arguing against the heavy rail transportation projects that several cities undertook in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked in the Commerce Department in the early 1960s and taught at MIT, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon […]
In an effort to offer more reference services to our user community, SC&A will now offer a chat feature accessible from our homepage. Simply click on the icon from our homepage to find the chat interface and be directly connected to a SC&A reference staff member: This feature is designed to allow us to quickly […]
For the past six months, Special Collections & Archives has been hard at work investigating new technologies for delivering online exhibits of our extensive holdings. Of particular interest to us has been the Omeka web design tool, developed by George Mason’s Center for History and New Media. Omeka allows historians and archivists to develop compelling […]
In December of 1967, when nearly 15 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of African Americans lived below the poverty line, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began organizing a national campaign against poverty. The Poor People’s Campaign was to inaugurate a new phase of civil rights extending the struggle […]
