Bowdoin Project Puts Major Focus on Majority Leader

The Bowdoin College Library has inaugurated a three-year oral history project to document the life and career of U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1954. Mitchell, former majority leader of the U.S. Senate and architect of the Northern Ireland Good Friday peace agreement, is currently chairman of the Global Board of DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms.

Women Have Their Hour at Swarthmore Library

Leading up to the Spanish-American War in 1898, Susan B. Anthony complained that the Civil War had resulted in the emancipation of the slave, that the coming war was to supposed to liberate the Spanish colonies, and asked, "When will there be a women's hour? We must be patient again." Such comments from Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt and other leaders of the women's suffrage movement are contained in dozens of heretofore unreleased letters that have been donated to the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.