Reflections from researcher and guest blogger Tim Hastings, PhD Candidate in History at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst Because of a generous fellowship from Historic Deerfield (HD), I was able to spend several weeks poring over the collections in the Memorial Libraries (a library jointly administered with the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association [PVMA]) […]
Month: August 2025
Edward Robinson’s “Biblical Researches in Palestine”
Our newest display open Sept. 2nd at the entrance of the Burke Library will draw attention to Union Theological Seminary’s first librarian, biblical scholar Edward Robinson, whose travels in Palestine in the 1830s led to the development of the field that came to be called “Biblical Geography.” Both an academic and an experienced outdoorsman […]