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Hawthorne's Wonder-Book
Read-a-Long
Has watching The Odyssey with Tom Holland and Zendaya got you craving more stories from Ancient Greece? Join us for a special read-a-long under the Calder in Hawthorne-Longfellow Library for a walk through ancient Greece, courtesy of Nathaniel Hawthorne! Stories from Hawthorne's Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls will be shown and read aloud by current Bowdoin College students, staff, and faculty. Children and their families welcome!
Featured Collection
Swearing, slang, smut, censorship, and scandal: dive headfirst into topics from ancient dirty jokes to social-media content moderation and America’s censorship battles. Examine who gets to decide what’s obscene, immoral, or just plain unacceptable and explore links to power, class, politics, humor, religion, resistance, and more.
H-L First Floor, Summer '26
Featured Exhibit
The latest Wabanaki REACH truth-telling initiative and oral history project, Beyond the Claims, documents the experiences of those impacted by the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. The collection is now available to search in Bowdoin Digital Collections.
On view now, Wikhikonol illustrates the project with photography of the people and land.
Ramp Gallery, H-L Lower Level