“Multidisciplinary,” the new exhibition in Fenwick’s A and C wings, highlights the variety of collections we have here in Special Collections & Archives. The idea for a multidisciplinary exhibition came from our desire to encourage scholars from throughout the University to examine our collections to find sources that are relevant to their fields. Archives […]
Another blog post on President Richard Nixon’s activities during the Watergate investigation. The first one can be found here. In June of 1973, Nixon hosted Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev for a second round of talks on arms reductions known as Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). They traveled around to a number of locations including Camp […]
The League of Women Voters (LWV) was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader in the women’s suffragist movement. Its purpose is to encourage citizens to participate actively in government by supporting the party of their choice. While the LWV is a nonpartisan organization, and therefore does not support individual candidates, it does […]
Happy Fourth! Although we don’t collect a lot of political memorabilia, this key to the city of Fairfax from the Joseph L. Fisher collection is a pretty cool piece. It was given to Fisher on July 4, 1979. Fisher’s career, spanning over fifty years, included planner member of the United States House of Representatives from […]
Inspired by the recent article “When Archival Description Meets Digital Object Metadata: A Typological Study of Digital Archival Representation” (GMU access only) by Jane Zhang and Dayne Mauney in the latest issue of the American Archivist (Spring/Summer 2013) I decided to take a look at and share how we at SC&A link finding aids and […]
