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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Let the Broadside negatives scanning project commence!

This fall SC&A received a generous grant from the Auxiliary Enterprise Management Council (AEMC) that is providing funding for new scanning equipment and two undergraduate students to scan, research, and contextualize negatives from the George Mason University Broadside photograph collection. This project will make accessible approximately 10,000 original photographs of George Mason University taken by […]

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Center for the Study of Constitutional Rights

-Michelle Page The Center for the Study of Constitutional Rights was established in 1981 as part of the Project for the Study of Human Rights at George Mason University.  The Center examined the formation of the Bill of Rights and the ways that landmark document was influenced by George Mason of Gunston Hall.  It also […]

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