Bill of Rights Ratified
On this day in 1791, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were ratified. The Bill of Rights, as these Amendments came to be known, guaranteed personal liberties with the federal government. The First Amendment alone included the right to...
200 Million and Counting
In November 2019, a milestone was reached in the world of libraries and interlibrary resource sharing: the submission of the 200 millionth request from a library to obtain a copy of an article needed by one of its faculty. The library that placed that request was...
Rosa Parks Arrested: December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey an Alabama law and city ordinance that required African Americans to sit at the back of the bus and to give up their seats on the bus to make room for white passengers. Mrs. Parks was an active...
Rare Books Amplify Learning
GW undergraduate students enrolled in the freshman writing course Art in the Age of Shakespeare visited the Law Library on November 15 to see law books printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime, and to view the exhibition The Duel in History: Laws, “Codes,” and Censure....Subscribe by Email
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