Research & Collections News

It does not seem possible that the NAM project is rapidly coming to close; just a couple more months and it will be complete. Now it is wrapping up all the loose ends and items that cannot be finished until the end.

While working remotely during the pandemic, staff in the Archives Department identified older collections that may benefit from a closer look and a bit of reinterpretation.

It is time for another installment of the series I seem to have created: “Who’s who,” where I delve a little bit further into the life of someone who worked at NAM and who’s name I have come across multiple times.

If you pay some attention to the business & economics press, you’ll frequently see apocalyptic warnings about the impending impacts of automation and robots on jobs in the 21st century.

Do you know who the Guinness Book of World records lists as the first self-made American woman millionaire? 

Annabel Pinkney is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she received her MS degree in Library and Information Science.

Question: What were the du Pont family’s views on slavery?