''Encyclopedia Brunoniana'' is an American reference work by

Martha Mitchell Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Her public comments and interviews during the Watergate scandal were frank and ...

covering

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. Published in 1993 by the Brown University Library, the

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has 629 pages. A digital version can be read free of charge on the

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

. Mitchell was the university's longtime archivist and "unofficial historian" until she retired in 2003; she died in 2011. ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana'' serves as a reference for the Brown community on the university's history. It includes articles on Brown's departments, publications, buildings, and people associated with the university.

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