With Samhain season soon upon us, specters, spirits, spooks galore! Conjure forth your syllabus to get the help you’re searching for.We call upon thee, spectral scholars, those who haunt the […]
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Burning Questions: “Is There Any Place That Honors Edgar Allan Poe?”
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Fall 2023 Visual Resources Updates
Welcome back to campus! Just a few updates from the Visual Resources Collection (VRC): Please email vrc@jhu.edu for any image or visual resources questions!
Burning Questions: “Got Any Good Book/Record Stores?”
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Burning Questions: Getting Out on the Town
We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Homewood Museum’s Historic Privy: Renovation and Reconsideration
Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, carpenters, masons, and painters worked to restore the interior of Homewood Museum’s historic privy. Built between 1801 and 1804, when construction on the […]
Business Location Databases
When we think about places in our local community what often comes to mind are those anchoring businesses where we shop and connect with our neighbors. Places like our favorite […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Meet the New Staffers
The past year was one of great activity and change at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. Much of that energy was derived from new staff members and new positions for […]
Shop the Gift Shops at Evergreen and Homewood This Holiday Season
The gift shops at Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library are great destinations for holiday shopping! And this weekend, during the museums’ respective open houses, JHU faculty, staff, and […]
The 2015 Baltimore Uprising was a Trans Turning Point
By Sophia Lola (JHU ’22) How did the 2015 Baltimore Uprising impact trans activism? This was the question I had as a student in Dr. Joseph Plaster’s “Queer Oral History” […]