Special Collections & Archives at Wesleyan University
A place for news and information about rare books, manuscripts and university archives.
Jennifer Miglus On Friday, January 15, I had the honor of interviewing former Wesleyan president, Douglas J. Bennet, Jr. I had spent the spring and summer of 2009 arranging and describing his professional papers which are now open for research in SC&A. As a processing archivist I am privileged to spend many weeks working with the materials … Read more
The more than 1000 books in the Manchester office in Olin Library have been inventoried. Of these, 22% are copies of books by William Manchester himself, representing a veritable United Nations of languages. American Caesar is represented in French and Spanish, but also in Japanese, Indonesian and Hebrew. His most well known book, The Death … Read more
