Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for October, 2008

• Finding Folklore Focused Field Projects
  Posted October 13, 2008 by Cory Nimer

  Some students and researchers want to know how to use the folklore archives more effectively. One of the items that the archive includes is the focused projects. These are semester projects done by students in folklore classes on topics of their choosing. Subjects range from missionaries to courtship, customs to beliefs and many more. There [...]

• Christopher Columbus
  Posted by Maggie Kopp

  In the United States, Columbus Day is observed on the second Monday of October to mark the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World in 1492. While Columbus’s legacy in the Americas is a source of dispute, his historic voyages are a popular topic for book collectors. Special Collections has a number of facsimiles [...]