Recent Networkwide Posts

• rring wrote a new post, Rare Book School Day 1, on the site The Bibliophile's Lair 20 hours, 18 minutes ago

  A beautiful start to the week—here’s a picture of Monticello atop its mountain, which is visible from the steps of the Alderman Library, and an inspiring sight as we walk into our first full day of class.

  How does a book make its meaning? All books have intentions on imagined readers, and we can reconstruct many of those intentions from the…[Read more]

• rring wrote a new post, Day 0.5 of Rare Book School , on the site The Bibliophile's Lair 1 day, 21 hours ago

  I am taking a week-long intensive course called “Teaching the History of the Book,” for professional development.

  After driving 450 miles from Hartford to Charlottesville (and then getting lost in the town […]

• rring wrote a new post, Fred Pfeil: Professor, Creative Writer, Cultural Critic, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 1 hour ago

  [Posted as 5 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College]

  A prolific writer who published five books and numerous poems, short stories, and essays […]

• rring wrote a new post, Dr. Evald L. Skau: Trinity’s First Guggenheim Fellow, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 1 hour ago

  [Posted as 4 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College]

  Born and raised in Hartford, Dr. Evald L. Skau (Norwegian, pronounced “sk-ow”), was no […]

• rring wrote a new post, Michael Campo: Founder of Study Away at Trinity, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 1 hour ago

  [Posted as 3 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College]

  Did you know that 60% of Trinity students travel abroad at some point during their college […]

• rring wrote a new post, Dr. Harold L. Dorwart: Mathematician and Historian, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 1 hour ago

  [Posted as 2 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College]

  A mathematics professor by trade, Dr. Harold L. Dorwart was also a fastidious chronicler of […]

• rring wrote a new post, Dr. Harry Todd Costello: Documenting the History of Psychology, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 1 hour ago

  [Posted as 1 of 10 in a series on the College Archives by Emma Paine, a graduate student intern from Simmons College]

  Professor Harry Todd Costello was recently featured on this blog in connection to his work […]

• rring wrote a new post, How to Bring Up Baby, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 1 hour ago

  [Kristin Runey--forthcoming]

• rring wrote a new post, Tyrone Power’s Impressions of America (1836), on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 2 hours ago

  [Posted by Emily Leonard for AMST 851: The World of Rare Books (Instructor: Richard Ring)]

  Film buffs think of “Tyrone Power ” as the breathtakingly handsome actor who was 20th Century Fox’s top male attraction […]

• rring wrote a new post, The Poet & the President, on the site I Found It at the Watkinson! 3 days, 2 hours ago

  [Posted by Judith Daly for AMST 851: The World of Rare Books (Instructor: Richard Ring)]

  American Studies stands at the crossroads of history and literature and I found an item in the Watkinson that is so […]