Oh, never dies: the haunted fiction of Alice Munro
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The pillows of our palms
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Anishinaabemowin reawakening: language ideology, pedagogy, and digital technology
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When global health emergency meets chronic emergency: parsing out (inter)national and local optics in the democratic republic of the Congo's tenth ebola virus disease outbreak
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Law and politics at interplay: how the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia shaped the course of war in the Balkans
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Connecting grassroots development evaluation to achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals
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Never mind the sex pistols, here's CBGB the role of locality and DIY media in forming the New York punk scene
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My whole universe in crumbs; at the center, what?: a meditation on the diary form
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The spectacle of death: school shootings in America
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"All we hear" navigating our relationship with music in the age of Spotify
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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.