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  • Position Announcement: Dietrich American Foundation Collection Fellow, Wesleyan University

    The Dietrich American Foundation (DAF) collection, on long-term deposit from the DAF and administered by Wesleyan University’s Special Collections & Archives (SC&A), is a superb group of more than 1000 books, periodicals, manuscripts, printed ephemera, and related materials focusing on early America. Particular strengths include the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The collection includes one of four copies of the first printing of the Star Spangled Banner’s sheet music, Ben Franklin’s personal annotated copy of Second Protest, With a List of the Voters Against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act… (1766), […]

    Posted by Katie Hodges-Kluck