“Essential Ingredients: Cookbooks as History” is a new online exhibition from Ohio State. I had no idea the first edition of The Joy of Cooking had such an amazing cover!

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Essential Ingredients: Cookbooks as History

A digital exhibit of historical US cookbooks from the Rare Book & Manuscripts Library at The Ohio State University.

Cambridge’s Porter Square Books is moving on Sunday to a new location 1000 feet from its current home, and it’s asking its customers to help form a human chain to move the books.

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Far-fetched but not far off: Porter Square Books plans a human chain between old and new stores - Cambridge Day

There are benefits to relocating a business nearby. Porter Square Books expects to take advantage of an unusual one: At 1 p.m. Sunday it will form ...

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Well, this is where we are. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/26/metro/cambridge-bikers-saddened-unsurprised-by-cyclists-death/

It's the biggest crossover event of all time! (I love that this is in the National Archives because it was introduced in a Senate investigation of the corrupting influence of comics on Americvan youth.) cc @npub1alru...75vl

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Happy #NationalComicBookDay! Did you know the National Archives carries a wide array of comic books such as this No.90 "Batman" comic once used as evidence in an investigation by the Judiciary Committee of the United States on juvenile delinquency?

In April 27, 1953, the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate created a Special Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency to investigate the ca...

Today in the classroom, we’re going to the moon! A range of depictions from Galileo’s earliest observations to an early 20th century photographic atlas. Fun fact: the third image isn’t really a photograph, but a meticulously sculpted landscape that provided a closeup 1874 equipment couldn’t.

"Richard J. Cellini, the director of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, said in a statement to The Crimson that he was explicitly instructed by Bleich to limit the number of descendants of enslaved individuals identified by his research team. “I have been repeatedly and emphatically told by Dr. Sara Bleich ‘not to find too many descendants’ and that ‘the HSRP shouldn’t do its job too well,’” Cellini wrote."

Infighting and Pressure From Above: Inside Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson

The $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative is meant to redress the University’s historic ties to slavery. But over the last two ...

Trattato degli Studi delle Donne, a 1740 work defending the ability of women to master even the most difficult academic disciplines, yet recommending that they be educated only in subjects related to their domestic duties. #NewAcquisition #NewAcq

A job opening that I am really excited to see posted: Head of Digital Strategies and Services for Archives and Special Collections (part of the tech services unit for Houghton and University Archives) The position will lead our efforts in digitization and born-digital stewardship. Minimum salary $87,700. https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partnerid=25240&siteid=5341&PageType=JobDetails&jobid=2011310