Stopping the spread of pathogen and panic: the creation and effects of moral panic in the SARS outbreak
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Can an app prevent pregnancy? A look into "femtech" through fertility and menstrual tracking mobile applications
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An inconvenient narrative: lay perceptions and political salience of environmental documentary
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The intersection of neuroscience and the law: exploring the ethical implications of using the "brain defense" for criminal murder defendants with frontal lobe tumors
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Peculiarity of socialist healthcare systems: North Korea & Cuba
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Touring memory: investigating connections between tourism and collective memory in post-apartheid South Africa
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Shopping for good: the socialized practice of conscious consumption in America
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Talking back and rewriting our stories: a reflection on personal narrative cultivating identity formations and social theory in latinas
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Worlds in-between: Afro-caribbean immigrants and black ethnic conflict in the U.S.
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Common sense?: gentrification, rezoning, and community along Brooklyn's 4th Avenue
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Digital Collections
Here you will find digitized archival collections, oral histories, and more. We are continually expanding the collections and improving access. You may find additional digital resources that reside outside the digital library here, and a selection of Online Exhibitions here.
Collections Overview
Finding Aids
The Archives & Special Collections Library is part of the Vassar College Libraries system. It holds the rare book, manuscript, and archival collections of the college. It collects, preserves, and makes available rare and unique collections, and also engages in teaching and outreach activities. This collection of finding aids describe items in both the Virginia B. Smith Memorial Manuscript Collection and the College Archives.
Herbarium
The Vassar College herbarium holds over 8,000 specimens of vascular plants, bryophytes, and algae. Holdings are primarily from northeastern North America, and include collections made by several notable 19th century botanists. To learn more about this project visit the website here.
Vassar Scholarship
Vassar College's institutional repository reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community. It provides access to senior theses, peer reviewed open access articles, and projects from a wide range of disciplines.