Archive forDecember, 2011
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Education History featured in December Archival Chronicle
December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Bowling Green State University was founded in response to a public demand for more professionally-trained teachers. A century of change in society and in the workplace had made a “basic” education one which went beyond the simple rudiments of “Readin’, Writin’, and ‘Rithmetic.” By the beginning of the twentieth century, school attendance was compulsory through […]
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Special Collections Highlight Holiday Season
December 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Holiday-themed books are the subject of the December 2011 exhibit at the CAC. Featured are a variety of editions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol produced by several publishers since the late 19th century. The most contemporary, published in 2009, is a facsimile of the prompt book used by Dickens himself to guide his public readings […]