Beyond the margins: invisibility and violence against Middle Eastern and North African American students in the orientalist, post-9/11 world
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You see before you, the unfortunate General Tso: notes on eating Chinese, American, and foods in between
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Reading the pedophile: deconstruction of innocence worship through the work of Henry Darger
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The sudden dark
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The legacy of the 'woman on paper': why Georgia O'Keeffe should be remembered as a writer
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Reading and reassessing the construction of gender and sexuality in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography
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Directing violence from "stage to page": revenge tragedies and the early modern dramatic form
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Ancient dance through modern eyes: four studies exploring the intersections of ancient and modern dance
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Text as creation: the centrality of motherhood across women's writing in the early modern period
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"What am I to do about you? I fear you may be... quite mad:" an exploration of the mad superheroine on the comic book page
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Available collections
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.