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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Summertime — when there are actually seats available in the best campus reading rooms!

William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

When your letterhead carries an amazing font, every letter commands attention. (Admittedly, the drawing is kind of cheesy.)

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This week's new archive was the Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis (Archive of Green Memory) in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They're only open a few days per week but they're very nice and have an enormous collection on the environmental movement, as one would expect!

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Second archive last week: the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (built 1972 – was that peak brutalism?).

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Today’s archive visit took me to the Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt. The mother ship of German capitalism called me home.

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Hearty congrats to Stefano Palermo, who successfully defended his Purdue dissertation prospectus – "Business Europe: A History of the European Round Table of Industrialists." Shaping up to be a landmark study on 🇪🇺 integration! @rkpejsova.bsky.social @drdaveatkinson.bsky.social @palstef.bsky.social

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Forthcoming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social, a fascinating study on the Banat by Tim Olin! Proud of the great history scholarship coming out of Purdue's Ph. D. program. Discount code in the flyer.

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New doorbell! But you need to click on the picture to see the design — I don’t know how to control the format otherwise.

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's fun also to take note of the fantastic mid-mod embassy building the West Germans built in Rio at the exact same time. Amazing structure, but it was going up in the wrong city!

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My paper title was confusing – Germans didn't _build_ the new Brazilian capital – but they watched with acute fascination. Plans for Brasilia were featured at the famous 1957 Interbau exhibit in Berlin. And Brasilia's lead architect, Oscar Niemeyer, contributed a building to Interbau.

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thinking about images I encountered two years back while writing on "West Germans and the Building of Brasília." Mary Vieira, a sculptor active in 🇨🇭, designed a vivid trilogy of posters in the mid-1950s: "Brasilien baut," "Panair do Brasil," and "Brasilien baut Brasilia." Such colors!

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sébastian Leclerc, illustration of the machines used to build the Louvre Palace, 1677

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Nicolas Sanson, map of France, 1652-53

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Beginning Instruction in the Christian Religion for Children, ca. 1527 (written for the Queen of Navarre's wedding)

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Guillaume Budé, The School of the Prince, ca. 1517-18 (made for Francis I)

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jean Bourdichon, illustration for Jean Marot's _The Voyage to Genoa_, ca. 1508. I think this is the first pictorial representation I've seen of France's Italian wars (here, the conquest of Genoa in 1507).

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Printed volume of Arthuriana, 1494

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Pierre Bersuire, Translation of Livy (mid-14th Cent.) – so this is supposed to be Carthage

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jean Froissart, _Chronicles_ (ca. 1402-3)

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Chronicles of France (composed St.-Denis, ca. 1370)

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Aside from the introduction by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, I was delighted to find an essay by my former colleague John Contreni.

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Trying to make time on the weekends to enjoy my collection of coffee-table books. Today's entry: _Creating French Culture_, a 1995 volume accompanying an exhibit co-curated by the Library of Congress & the BN. Wonderful cultural snapshots from the medieval & early modern eras.

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Can’t say enough about the amazing work ethic of Purdue students. It’s Day 2 of classes, and the main reading room in WALC is completely full. Likewise the open space one floor below. And the lecture hall. #HireaBoilermaker

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William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Blue sky, green grass. Do we want kids and cats on this site? Just on weekends?

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