Do you know what is totally not the cat’s meow? Innocently waking up one morning to discover that a politician’s comments on the allegedly doomed lives and dangerous voting ways […]
I Can Has Vote Plz?
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Maneeza Khan on Early Student Records
Enjoy this post by Maneeza Khan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Interested in applying? Find out about the 2024-2025 program here. Welcome back […]
“A man’s kitchen!”- The Roland Park Company’s Historic (and Curious) Advertising
By Carla Ruas, Archives Assistant and a student in the Master of Liberal Arts program Part of a monthly series of posts highlighting uncovered items of note, and the archival […]
What’s in a Letterhead?
Part of a monthly series of posts highlighting uncovered items of note, and the archival process brought to bear on these items, as we preserve, arrange, and describe the Roland […]
Zhikang Xie (Leo): Narrating the Taiping Rebellion, Imperial Hero, and Masculinity in Late-Victorian Britain
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Zhikang Xie conducted research with materials housed at the George Peabody Library and John Work Garret Library to analyze the evolution of late Victorian […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Homewood’s Orchard Yields Delicious Results
We’re now deep into baking season, and while 2023’s apple harvest was a mixed bag nationally, Homewood Museum’s orchard of mostly apple (and a few pear) trees over-performed. As the […]
JHU Museums Year in Review: Interns
It is often said that the Johns Hopkins University Museums are laboratories of learning. Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library certainly lived up to that reputation in 2023, hosting […]
Recontextualizing Japanese Reparations Photos
By Jenelle Clark and Hanjie Guo Processing archivists spend a lot of our time crafting careful description for the collections our institutions hold. For items that our curators purchase for […]
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Noël Da on Middle-East Inspired Sheet Music
Enjoy this post by Noël Da, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Hello and welcome! Having spent a few weeks parsing through the hazy […]
Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Clare Levine on Vegetarian Cookbooks & The Counterculture
Enjoy this post by Clare Levine, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. My name is Clare Levine and thanks to my great-grandma, I am […]