The artistic talent of Louis Rosenthal had its beginnings in the little town of Plugnyan, Lithuania, where he was born on the 20th of February in 1888. Rosenthal was the sixth child of seven children, and from his early childhood years he was known to go out into the forest and experiment with carving his
This is a bridge nearly 40 years in the making . . . When the Administration Building — now known as Enrollment Services — was constructed in 1972, it meant pedestrians coming from the main part of campus had to cross Osler Drive to reach it. Almost immediately concerns about pedestrian safety were raised. In
As we celebrate the anniversaries of both the founding of Towson University in 1866, and its move to this campus in 1915, the Towson University Archives and Special Collections department is taking time to look back over the school’s history and some of the important but lesser-known people who have influenced it. This story begins,
As we celebrate the anniversaries of both the founding of Towson University in 1866, and its move to this campus in 1915, the Towson University Archives and Special Collections department is taking time to look back over the school’s history and some of the important but lesser-known people who have influenced it. As most Americans
We as archivists have the responsibility of collecting, preserving, and providing access to our collective memory, our intellectual and cultural heritage, as well as having the privilege of presenting a window to the past. And in the case of the the Lena C. Van Bibber Collection of Cuneiform Clay Tablets, that window extends back more
As we celebrate the anniversaries of both the founding of Towson University in 1866, and its move to this campus in 1915, the Towson University Archives and Special Collections department is taking time to look back over the school’s history and some of the important but lesser-known people who have influenced it. It all started
Elaine Hedges joined Towson State College’s faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor in the English Department. She had spent the previous 15 years teaching at Harvard (where she’d earned her doctorate), Wellesley College, San Francisco State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Goucher College. She’d earned her Bachelor of Arts in English
The recent “Monuments Men” film directed by George Clooney and Grant Heslov tells the story of the experiences of just a few of the more than 300 Monuments, Fine Arts, & Archives (MFA&A) program men and women who worked during and after World War II to safeguard Europe’s historic and cultural monuments from war damage.
As we celebrate the anniversaries of both the founding of Towson University in 1866, and its move to this campus in 1915, the Towson University Archives and Special Collections department is taking time to look back over the school’s history and some of the important but lesser-known people who have influenced it. The decision of Oliver
As we celebrate the anniversaries of both the founding of Towson University in 1866, and its move to this campus in 1915, the Towson University Archives and Special Collections department is taking time to look back over the school’s history and some of the important but lesser-known people who have influenced it. The move to