Apr 11, 2022 | Cover to Cover, News
In September 2020, the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library’s Department of Special Collections and Archives launched a partnership with JSTOR to share digitized primary sources on their Open Community Collections platform (more on the launch). Since the launch, the...
Mar 14, 2022 | Cover to Cover, News
by Caitlin Colban-Waldron, Adjunct Archivist In celebration of Women’s History Month, we share one of the most-requested items from QC’s Special Collections and Archives department: the 1942 yearbook photo of graduating senior Marie Daly. In the photo, her hair is set...
Feb 8, 2022 | Cover to Cover, News
In celebration of Black History Month, this month we share an item from our digital shelves: an oral history with Soribel Genao. Soribel Genao is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational and Community Programs at Queens College....
Jan 31, 2022 | Cover to Cover
By Patricia Reguyal, Archives Assistant Considered “the founder of modern philosophy,” René Descartes is famous for the declaration, “I think, therefore I am.” (While this formulation is famous in Latin as “Cogito, ergo sum,” it was originally written in French...
Dec 13, 2021 | Cover to Cover, News
By Patricia Reguyal, Archives Assistant Bleak House by Charles Dickens Bleak House was Charles Dickens’s ninth novel, and, according to Dickens scholar Paul Schlicke, “technically his most ambitious novel and widely held to be...
