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Bill Plante Papers
The Loyola Archives & Special Collections is proud to be chosen as the home of Bill Plante's papers. A respected CBS correspondent and Loyola alumnus, Bill Plante's career spanned from the mid-1960s to 2016. During that time he covered news events from the Civil Rights Movement to President Obama's administration. The papers include Plante's scripts and notebooks.
Land acknowledgement
The Loyola University Chicago community acknowledges its location on the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires (the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes) and a place of trade with other tribes, including the Ho-Chunk, Miami, Menominee, Sauk, and Meskwaki. READ MORE
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- Edifying and Curious Letters: Jesuit Accounts of the Americas,1565-1896
- Jesuits & the Sciences, 1540-1999
- Innovations in Language Research: Vincent V. Herr, S.J.
- G is for Gorey - C is for Chicago: the collection of Thomas Michalak
- Letters of 19th and 20th century Women Writers
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
- It's Hell But Here We Are Again
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Land acknowledgement
The Loyola University Chicago community acknowledges its location on the ancestral homelands of the Council of the Three Fires (the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi tribes) and a place of trade with other tribes, including the Ho-Chunk, Miami, Menominee, Sauk, and Meskwaki. READ MORE