Born in Trenton, New Jersey on November 15, 1920, James R. Vitelli was a professor and Chair of the English Department at Lafayette College from 1977 to 1983. When he retired in 1987, Dr. Vitelli gave a collection of journals, newspapers, magazines, correspondences, and other publications to Lafayette’s Special Collections …
In developing my thesis with the history department here at Lafayette, I had the opportunity to work with a small collection of picture postcards from Alsace-Lorraine printed in the first half of the 1900s. Even though this collection was only one component of my much larger study of Alsace-Lorraine, it, …
So, this semester has been filled with new experiences and opportunities, one of which has been completing a history internship in Lafayette’s …
In the aftermath of World War II anti-Japanese sentiment was still at a high among the American people. Caricatures of Japanese people …
On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving as the Lafayette campus was clearing out for the long holiday, two Lafayette alums payed a visit …
Now that we have covered the very heavy and depressing topics of racial prejudice and self inflicted injury in the military, we …
Helen Meyer wrote about the experiences of the G.I. patients whom she cared for in letters back to her family in Oberlin, …
From early on in her correspondence Helen Stevenson comments often on racial interaction between blacks and whites in the armed forces stationed …
Helen Stevenson Meyner was the eldest daughter born to William and Eleanor Stevenson in 1928. After graduating from Colorado College with a B.A. …
Student assistant, Elizabeth “Libby” Lucy ’15, processed the most recent additions to our Historical Photograph Collection class files this spring. She was …