Gordon W. Prange Collection

【Prange Collection Blog】 New Research Guide Available: Atomic bombs related materials in the Gordon W. Prange Collection

New Research Guide Available: Atomic bombs related materials in the Gordon W. Prange Collection We are pleased to announce the launch of new research guide, Atomic bombs related materials in the Gordon W. Prange Collection. This guide assists the users to find the materials related to the ato…

【Prange Collection Blog】Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2026) – Part II

Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2026) – Part II We have acquired the following secondary sources on the Occupation period in the first half of 2025. See also our past acquisitions in 2014, 2015 (Part I), 2015 (Part II), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, …

【Prange Collection Blog】Featured Gift Collection – Robert E. Vincent papers

Featured Gift Collection – Robert E. Vincent papers We are pleased to announce one of our new gift collection acquisitions – Robert E. Vincent papers! Robert E. Vincent (1926-2003) served in the US Army from January 1945 to December 1946. Vincent se…

【Prange Collection Blog】State Shintō and Censorship (Part 2)

State Shintō and Censorship (Part 2) Former Student Assistant Garv Khandelwal shares his research on censorship materials pertaining to Imperial Japan’s ideological use of the Shinto religion in this two part series. See Part 1 …

in 1949, a commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of St. Francis Xavier's Arrival in Japan was held in Nagasaki. We recently completed the digitization of COLOR slides depicting this event. The slides are the part of Victor Delnore papers https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/1817

【Prange Collection Blog】Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2026) – Part I

Newly Acquired Secondary Sources on the Occupation (2026) – Part I We have acquired the following secondary sources on the Occupation period in the first half of 2025. See also our past acquisitions in 2014, 2015 (Part I), 2015 (Part II), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, …

【Prange Collection Blog】State Shintō and Censorship (Part I)

State Shintō and Censorship We were lucky enough to have as Student Assistant this past semester Garv Khandelwal, a talented Linguistics major with wide ranging interests in history, math and machines. This month he will be g…

【Prange Collection Blog】Postwar Knits: Historic Knitting Patterns from the Prange Collection

Postwar Knits: Historic Knitting Patterns from the Prange Collection BY EVIE GIACONIA, University Archives coordinator at Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) Earlier this spring, along with Britney Bibeault (INFO PhD candidate), I took a trip to the G…

【Prange Collection Blog】Featured Gift Collection – George C. Branam photographs

Featured Gift Collection – George C. Branam photographs We are pleased to announce one of our new gift collection acquisitions – George C. Branam photographs! George C. Branam was a professor in United States Department of Defense schools during the Oc…

Among 2,000+ scanned photos in the Mead Smith Karras papers, you can find some of her tours to a factory, observing workers' working condition. https://digital.lib.umd.edu/search?f[digital_collection]=Postwar+Japan&f[archival_collection]=Mead+Smith+Karras+papers