Education for Abolition: A Prison Abolitionist Curriculum for a Youth After-School Program
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Shanghai Street Food and the Making of a Global City
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The Military-Industrial-Media Complex: The Decline of the "Alert and Knowledgeable Citizenry"
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Duck and Cover: The Dissemination of Domestic Cold War Propaganda from 1947 to 1957 and Its Lasting Impact on Race Relations
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Intersectionality amongst Disproportionate and Forgotten Numbers within the Child Welfare System
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Bridging the Gap
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Unnatural Acts: A Political Ecology of Conservation in the Catskills (1820-1997)
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Do or DoNo: Financing Inequality in Hartford, Connecticut Through the Downtown North Redevelopment Project
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[Picturing] Italy in Poetry and Prose: Collected Perspectives on Italy in Victorian Travel Literature, 1842-1877
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Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen: Unpacking the American Situation in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Another Country Through the Lens of Postlapsarian Anxiety.
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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.