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Ringel, Lance | oral history, July 15, 2013 (part 4)

Date
2013-07-15
Abstract

Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the

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Ringel, Lance | oral history, July 15, 2013 (part 5)

Date
2013-07-15
Abstract

Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the

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Ringel, Lance | oral history, July 15, 2013 (part 6)

Date
2013-07-15
Abstract

Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the

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Ringel, Lance | oral history, July 15, 2013 (part 7)

Date
2013-07-15
Abstract

Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the

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Ringel, Lance | oral history, July 15, 2013 (transcript) - no file

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Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the

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Ringel, Lance | Oral History: July 15, 2013

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2013-07-15
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Lance was born in Bloomington, Illinois and grew up in Decatur, Illinnois. He went to college in Washington, D.C., where he worked on political campaigns on Capitol Hill, and then to the University of Pittsburgh for graduate school. He then worked at the National Gay Task Force, was president of the

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Riverview Military Academy cadets

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Date
1900-1915
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Group portrait of the cadets from the military school in Poughkeepsie, New York

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Robert Brigham

Date
December 5, 2006
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Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College, discusses his new book entitled: Is Iraq another Vietnam?

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Robert Copland, 1515 -- Printer's Mark

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Date
1515
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Main (Thompson) Library location: North wing -- Third window. Little is known about the early life and schooling of Robert Copland (c. 14-- – 1548). Based on his work with William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, however, it is clear that Copland received a fine education, specifically in French and

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Robert Darnton

Date
April 30, 2014
Abstract

Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard University talks about his book Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Harvard, 2012). "In 1749 Parisians feasted on a half-dozen poems that ridiculed Louis XV for being

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Robert DeMaria, Jr.

Date
March 5, 2014
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Robert DeMaria, Jr., Henry Noble McCracken Professor of English at Vassar College, talks about the paragon of eighteenth-century English scholarship and letters Samuel Johnson, Johnson's reading habits, his monumental Dictionary of the English Language, scholarly editing, and the final installments

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Robert K. Brigham

Date
April 17, 2019
Abstract

Robert K. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations at Vassar College, discusses his book Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 2018). The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and

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Robert Kipniss

Date
September 15, 2021
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"The painter, printmaker, and writer Robert Kipniss talks about his memoir Robert Kipniss: A Working Artist's Life (University Press of New England, 2011). \n""A painter's life is a solitary one, alone in the studio, combining intelligence and imagination with technical skills to create a unique

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Robert Livingston Stanton's Toast to E.C.S., n.d.

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n.d.
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Robert O. McClintock

Date
May 3, 2017
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We continue our series on the value of the liberal arts in contemporary society with a conversation with Robert O. McClintock, John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Professor Emeritus in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education at Teacher's College, Columbia University in the City of New

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Roberta Shaffer

Date
May 14, 2014
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Roberta Shaffer (VC'74), Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress and former Dean of the Library School at the University of Texas, Austin, talks in an interview recorded in her offices about the Library of Congress, its organization, structure, architecture, collections

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Roberts, Amabel Scharff, 1891-1918 | Memorial Minute:

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[After 1918]
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Robertson, Karen | oral history, July 18, 2013 (part 1)

Date
2013-07-18
Abstract

Karen Robertson was born in Alabama, grew up in Kansas and England, went to high school in Boston, and went to college at Barnard before going on to graduate school at Columbia; Robertson is a Senior Lecturer of English and Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Vassar, where she has been

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