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With its terrifying gorilla in a German military helmet reaching the shores of America, leaving a devastated Europe behind, this propaganda poster uses fear of the enemy as a military recruitment tool. Anti-German propaganda themes contributed to the…

A C18 MS French version of a letter giving an apocryphal physical description of Jesus, purportedly by the unhistorical eyewitness Publis Lentulus.

This memo officially appointed E. Emmet Reid as a Chemist at the American University Experiment Station in Washington, DC.

This reply to a request to fund the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society indicates, that the University did in fact support early Jewish institutes. As evidence of this, President Goodnow cites the University's support of Hebrew University of…

Photograph of the grand opening of the Peabody Institute in 1866.