Hesburgh Library

Words On Play: Baseball Literature before 1900

Over the course of the nineteenth century, American baseball evolved from a localized folk game of English origin to a codified sport of broad popular appeal, commonly cited as...

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Fighting Words: English and American Boxing Literature from the Joyce Sports Collection

Notre Dame’s Rare Books and Special Collections is home to perhaps the strongest institutional collection of boxing-related books and periodicals in the United States. A...

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After Gutenberg: Print, Books, and Knowledge in Germany through the Long Sixteenth Century

After Gutenberg: Print, Books, and Knowledge in Germany through the Long Sixteenth Century features materials from Notre Dame’s rare books collection that represent an array...

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The Power of My Pen to Describe: Ten American Diaries, 1750-1900

The Power of my Pen to Describe is a digital exhibit highlighting ten unpublished American manuscript diaries from the holdings in Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh...

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