Are you looking for data on someone who was a “guest of the state” at Sing Sing prison? A new crowd-sourced digital history project may have the information you seek. (No guarantees, as the database is still being built.) From 1865 to 1925, nearly 50,000 people passed through the gates of Sing Sing prison, just …
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Crowd-Sourced History Project Seeks to Humanize the Incarcerated
Are you looking for data on someone who was a “guest of the state” at Sing Sing prison? A new crowd-sourced digital history project may have the information you seek. (No guarantees, as the database is still being built.) From 1865 to 1925, nearly 50,000 people passed through the gates of Sing Sing prison, just …
Boston Public Library Opens E-Book Access to Teens Across US
Ahead of Banned Books Week (Oct. 1-7), the Boston Public Library is joining the Book Unbanned initiative. It was started by the Brooklyn Public Library in an attempt to fight censorship and book banning by expanding access to books for teens and young adults nationwide. Anyone ages 13-26 who lives in the U.S. can sign …