by Grace Millet
Native Land Digital, also referred to as simply Native Land, is a digital database and map that contains information about indigenous peoples’ lands throughout the world. Started and led by indigenous activists from around the globe…
The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Autobiographical Home
by Christine Jacobson
In her 1893 short story, “The Fullness of Life,” Edith Wharton described a woman’s nature as a “great house full of rooms”:
…“...there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the
Death, Corsets, and Opera, Oh My!: Nichols After Dark Events at the Nichols House Museum
by Jasmine Bonanca
In March of 1902, the Nichols family hosted a performance by Metropolitan Opera singer Louise Homer in their home on Beacon Hill. More than 100 years later, the Nichols family’s home, now the Nichols House Museum, brought …
In Their Own Words: Librarians in Wartime
Archival Sources On the Street
by Jenny DeRocher
La Crosse, Wisconsin is a city of about 50,000 people. It sits between tree-covered bluffs and the winding Mississippi River. The city’s downtown area is like many other industrial Mississippi River towns with traces of train tracks, …