Last week I gave lightning talks to visiting elementary school students about what we do here in Towson University’s Special Collections and Archives. The very first thing I did was explain what archives are (collections of things that represent the history of the University) versus what special collections are (items that may not have anything
This post was written by Nadia Nasr, former head of Special Collections and University Archives. Last Wednesday Towson University Dining hosted an Old English Holiday Party. Seeing the publicity for this event reminded us about the Old English Christmas dinner that used to take place on campus, when Towson University was the Maryland State Normal
In a previous post, I talked about how Nadia and I pored over school catalogs to glean information for a presentation we crafted. In fact, we use the school catalogs for a lot of information about the school. I was a student here in the 1990s, and back then I had little understanding of how