Category Archives: UMass Dartmouth Archives and Special Collection
Council of Women’s Organizations Archives Project Completed
In October of 2017 I began a one-semester internship at the Claire T. Carney Archives and Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. As a first semester graduate student of Simmons College of Library and Information Science, pursuing a … Continue reading
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Tagged Council of Women's Organizations of Greater New Bedford, Eloise Pina
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Simmons Archival Intern David Boerman Creates Online Finding Aids
As a graduate student from Simmons College in the archival track of the Library and Information Sciences program, I completed a semester long internship at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. … Continue reading
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Tagged ArchivesSpace, Claire T. Carney Library, Simmons College SLIS, Swain School of Design, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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When Colleges Went on Strike in 1970
The anti-war movement gained momentum in 1970 after four unarmed college students were killed by the National Guard in a protest at Kent State University in Ohio. Students were protesting America’s invasion of Cambodia and President Nixon’s escalation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged protest, SMU, strikes, Torch, UMass Dartmouth
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The Torch and Student Protests of 1969
In light of the Million Women March on January 21st and the many other protests happening before, after and during the inauguration of President Trump, I wondered if UMass Dartmouth students had historically been involved in protests in Washington, DC. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1969 protest, campus unrest, SMTI, Torch, UMass Dartmouth
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Archives Intern Completes CJC Collections
As a graduate student from Simmons College in the Library and Information Sciences program, I completed a semester long internship at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections. As part of my internship I processed two collections; the … Continue reading
Posted in Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture, New Bedford History, UMass Dartmouth Archives and Special Collection, Uncategorized, World War I, World War II
Tagged Jewish history, UMD Archives, Women's organizations
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The American Views on Madeira Wine
. On November 23rd 2015, the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives co-hosted with the Clube Madeirense S.S. Sacramento Madeira historian Duarte Mendonça as he presented, to a large audience, his new book titled “American Views on Madeira Wine.” He shared … Continue reading
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In Honor of Veteran’s Day, from the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives
Manuel “Manny” J. Carvalho Jr. (1916-1998) was the son of Manuel J. and Rose Carvalho, who were Azorean immigrants; he was a long-term resident of Tiverton, RI. His story is kept alive in the Dennis Rezendes Azorean Ancestral and Personal … Continue reading
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SMU Club Football Started in 1985
The SMU, or Southeastern Massachusetts University* Board of Trustees voted on February 28, 1985 to approve a proposal to develop for the first time, a Club Football Program at the university. The New England Club Football Conference operated outside of … Continue reading
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Tagged #Corsairs, corsairsfootball, umdfootball
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70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Text by Cynthia Yoken; Layout by Judy Farrar Seventy years ago, while the Germans were in retreat, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camps. It was April, 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe. A number … Continue reading
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Tagged Holocaust, Jewish history, liberators, oral history, World War II
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