Archive for June, 2017
The GI Bill: America’s Promise to the Citizen-Soldier
• June 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American war propaganda, Civilian Conservation Corps, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Anacostia Flats, Arsenal of Democracy, Bonus Expeditionary Force, Bonus March, Burnett Roth, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), demonstrations, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, GI Round Tables, Hoovervilles, Hurricanes, lobbying, Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill), shantytowns, Sheryl Gold, Steve Heller, Washington D.C.
Much Ado about Mummies
• June 9, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Rochelle T. Pienn
Tags: Adams Memorial, Admiral William Thomas Sampson, archives, Aswan Low Dam, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Baldwin-Ziegler North Pole expedition, Berlin, Cairo Museum, cars, dogs, funerals, George Sherman Batcheller, Katherine Batcheller, Laplanders, librarians, Marian Adams, mummies, Muslims, Philae, Port of Suez, President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, President William Mckinley, Rachel Weisz, Reindeer, S. S. America, sarcophagi, The Mummy, tombs, Tromso (Norway), Universal Studios, Wilhelm II, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 