Olympic cities and the legacy of infrastructure: Barcelona 1992 and Athens 2004
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White supremacy as design
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Lost in transnation: reconciling geographical, linguistic and cultural distance in NoViolet Bulawayo's "We Need New Names"
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"Pathetic and impressive": recovering the role of American sentimental novels in the fiction/morality conflict
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The inside
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Autonomy through image: the path of identity formation in Fun Home, Calling Dr. Laura, and Lighter Than My Shadow
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Justice for all?: the Pledge of Allegiance as a site of surveillance and discipline in American culture and classrooms
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A people without: personal and political American histories of Palestine
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Easier said than done: collaborative pedagogy and its challenges in the Vassar College Writing Center
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Making (sense of) history after apartheid: neoliberal education in the 'new' South Africa
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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.