Stories about "Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library"
12 Bates ‘CatFacts’ about Jimmy Carter, Jimi Hendrix, Julia Child, and more
Friday, March 31, 2023 12:24 pm
During our annual stint on the Great Day to Be a Bobcat livestream, we shared a few CatFacts with viewers. From there to here!
Beyond ‘founded by abolitionists’: Students and faculty undertake a more inclusive examination of Bates’ founding story
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:07 pm
Ongoing research by Bates faculty and students into the college’s early connection to the U.S. slave economy seeks to add long-silenced voices to the college’s founding narrative.
From the Archives: Tree conk, peace pipe, and football paperweight
Friday, May 3, 2019 11:30 am
From a paperweight inspired by a big Bates win to a peace pipe that raises questions, here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library.
From the Archives: Old hockey puck and horse-drawn mail delivery
Friday, January 25, 2019 10:42 am
Mail delivery by horse-drawn carriage, and the hockey puck from a 1927 game that was “fast and furious and marked by many swinging sticks.”
From the Archives: Chase Hall barbershop and 1939 Wedgwood
Thursday, December 20, 2018 12:54 pm
From Brylcreem to bow ties, here are a few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
8 reasons why Edmund Muskie ’36 was an amazing political candidate in 1968
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 3:37 pm
Fifty years ago, Edmund Muskie '36 ran one of the “exemplary national campaigns of modern times.”
From the Archives: Ode to a 30-cent hot dog
Monday, November 26, 2018 12:00 am
A few items from the Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library and elsewhere on campus — and beyond.
Charlie Cook: 2018 midterms truly the ‘most important since Moby Dick was a guppy’
Friday, September 14, 2018 9:15 am
Which will be stronger in November: the Democratic wave or the Republican seawall?
Video: Watch ski jumping off Mount David in 1936
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:51 pm
The spectacle of ski jumping from Mount David in 1936 was no less grand, or less popular, than the Olympic version.
Look What We Found: Jakub Kazecki’s 1905 Bates German Club medal
Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:45 am
“Students graduate and start their lives." But there are material things that will "bring them back to Bates and create a Bates identity.”