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Runaway slave ads portray grim period of U.S. history

3/17/2016 by : Melanie Lefkowitz , Cornell University Library

Runaway slave advertisements – a common sight in North American newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries – are frankly disturbing. They describe people as property, listing their physical attributes and family connections in chilling terms.

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Database of classical works now freely searchable

2/1/2016 by : Melanie Lefkowitz , Cornell Library

Students and scholars can now freely search a new database of Latin and Greek authors that provides links to online versions of their works.

The database, the Classical Works Knowledge Base (CWKB), contains metadata about 5,200 works by 1,500 ancient authors, allowing users with a limited knowledge of the classics’ canonical citation system to simply link to passages of digital texts.

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Arts and Sciences faculty can apply for digital grants

1/12/2016 by : Melanie Lefkowitz , Cornell Chronicle

College of Arts and Sciences faculty and graduate students have until Jan. 31 to apply for grants to digitize their hidden treasures and make them freely available around the world.

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Alumnus rescues files that form Cornell's Nuremberg collection

12/2/2015 by : Melanie Lefkowitz , Ezra Magazine

In the summer of 1998, Henry Korn '68 got a phone call from a young lawyer and fellow Cornellian that changed his life.

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'Gods and Scholars' brings religious artifacts to light

11/10/2015 by : Melanie Lefkowitz , Cornell Chronicle

Just because Cornell University is nonsectarian doesn’t mean its founders objected to the discussion, practice or study of religion.

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Unfinished ‘map’ of cultural images online

8/20/2015 by : Melanie Lefkowitz , Cornell Chronicle

Aby Warburg – whose early 20th-century emphasis on the power of recurrent images was eerily prescient of contemporary thought – died before he could finish his “Mnemosyne Atlas,” consisting of large panels of collages tracing the history of art.