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A Culture of Stone: carving the marble vessels of the ancient Americas

This post is part of the series Excavating Archaeology, which features selections from, and research on, the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas and related...

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Summer Reading Projects or How to Become Levi-Strauss

This post is part of the series Excavating Archaeology, which features selections from, and research on, the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas and related...

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Finding John Huston’s Feathers

This post is part of the series Excavating Archaeology, which features selections from, and research on, the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas and related...

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A Book Tied Up in Knots

This post is part of the series Excavating Archaeology, which features selections from, and research on, the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas and related...

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To Have Traveled So Far: The Provenance and History of the Kislak Encounter...

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Lost Pages and Hidden Libraries: my quest to find the first book printed in...

This post is part of the series Excavating Archaeology, which features selections from, and research on, the Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology & History of the Early Americas and related...

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How to Feel Comfortable in Someone Else’s Skin

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Native American Spaces: Cartographic Resources at the Library of Congress

*The text for this blog post was adapted from the research guide created by former G&M reference specialist, Mike Klein, and from the essay by Jim Flatness, former G&M acquisitions specialist,...

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The Empire Strikes Hats: An Ambitious Atlas from Fishing to Furs

Some readers of my last post, “In Cod We Trust,” kindly noted another cod-related map that I present to you now: This map of North America, according to ye newest and most exact observations is most...

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Connecting Waterways: The Historic Significance of Portages

Portages are places or routes where a boat must be carried, especially over land, between two areas of water.  They have played an important historical role in travel and trade in that they linked gaps...

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