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Home > Collections > Special Collections > Using Special Collections > Classes that have used Special Collections
In recent years, there has been a steady increase in classroom use of Special Collections materials, with as many as 30 different courses visiting in a given semester. Class visits have included - civil engineers examining Victorian iron-truss bridge structures at the Peabody Library;
- art historians poring over woodcuts by Durer and etchings by Piranesi;
- American literature students tracing the design and textual variants in the first and subsequent editions of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass;
- undergraduate students learning how to interpret handwriting in historical documents;
- medievalists encountering illuminated manuscripts and printing from the era of Gutenberg
- high school history teachers studying freedom and slavery in the Atlantic world
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