The Mystery of Martha Polk
10/31/2023
Now that we are well into Fall and as Halloween nears, let’s look at a bit of true crime hidden in the Joseph Wickes papers.
- MS 0066 Joseph Wickes papers
- Mystery
- True Crime
- Archives
Washington's Dispatches
Compendium Malfarium
10/24/2023
Originally published in 1608, Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo’s Compendium Malefarium was an immediate success and widely regarded as the authoritative text on witches and witch-hunting.
- Halloween
- Special Collections
- Witches
- Archives
Hole-in-the-Wall
10/20/2023
Just down the road, along Route 50 near Trappe, is an eerie landmark that hasn’t yet been swallowed by housing developments or shopping complexes. This lonely brick ruin is all that remains of Whitemarsh Chapel, a church dating back to 1665, which was mostly destroyed by fire in 1897.
- Ghosts
- Halloween
- Maryland Special Collection
- Archives
National Home Front Project - Meet Joan Rosenberg Kovachi
10/17/2023
The National Home Front Project is a major grassroots initiative under the leadership of historians at Washington College. Our innovative oral history program partners with individuals, communities, and organizations across the United States to record, preserve, and share audio interviews with civilians who experienced World War II. By pulling together in the spirit of wartime Americans, we can ensure that future generations hear their voices, and that our country never forgets its past. For this short entry, we’d like to share the story of Joan Rosenberg Kovachi.
- National Home Front Project
- Newark Public Library
- Starr Center
- World War II
- Archives
Remembering Brooks Robinson
10/12/2023
This distinctive signature will be familiar to many baseball fans and Marylanders. It belongs to the man who has been known as “Mr. Oriole,” “Mr. Hoover,” and “The Human Vacuum Cleaner,” a man who is almost synonymous with Baltimore baseball…. legendary third baseman, Brooks Robinson.
- Baltimore Orioles
- Brooks Robinson
- Maryland Special
- Archives
Aubrey Beardsley
10/10/2023
Aubrey Beardsley was an English artist whose name you might not know, although you may recognize his work.
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Gibbes Museum of Art
- Rare Book Collections
- Archives
History Crush- Leah Hackett Frederick
10/06/2023
It’s easy to see why Leah Frederick, class of 1936, was described by this anonymous Pegasus writer as “bewitching everyone that she meets on the campus” even without her “wide smile” on display
- Class of 1936
- Pegasus
- yearbooks
- Archives
Your own folder in the President’s papers
10/03/2023
In many of the Presidents’ papers, there is typically a folder titled “Discipline”. Most of these folders contain varied infractions of co-ed parties or alcohol on campus so when the whole folder is about one student, you want to know more about them.
- Alumni
- Class of 1930
- Archives
Student Activism at Washington College
09/26/2023
With our location on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, it is easy to think of Washington College as a sleepy little liberal arts college content to prepare its students for the world beyond academia as the Chester River lazily ripples by.
- Activism
- Civil Rights
- Archives
Outfit of the Day
09/22/2023
Though a yearbook primarily functions as a memory book of past times and events by those who experienced them, to outsiders who lack sentimental attachments and baggage, a yearbook serves a different purpose altogether.
- Pegasus yearbooks
- Student life
- Archives