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Stern Center Awarded NEH Grant to Create a Unique Online Database of Early Modern English Ephemera

Posted on September 5, 2025 by News Team

The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance is restoring access to a trove of documents from the early modern period thanks to a recently awarded two-year grant of $318,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Collection Connections: Reflections on My Attingham Summer School Experience

Posted on August 25, 2025 by Michelle Fitzgerald

As the Curator of Collections for both of Johns Hopkins University’s historic house museums (Evergreen Museum & Library and Homewood Museum), the Attingham Summer School program gave me quite a bit to think about.


Libraries Team Wins Discovery Award for Innovative Curating and Archiving Black Baltimore Project

Posted on July 23, 2025 by News Team
MacBeth Studio photo of CWCP Baltimore MD 1927

The Sheridan Libraries are delighted to announce the launch of Curating and Archiving Black Baltimore (CABB), a one-year project funded by a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, which recognizes cross-divisional teams engaged in new research and creation.


What is a National Bibliography and Why Would I Care?

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Joshua Everett
open book sitting on a lineup of books on a green background

Have you ever wondered how libraries and researchers keep track of all the published materials that come from a particular country? Every year countless publications, books, journals, maps, music scores, […]


A Summer School Like No Other: Michelle Fitzgerald Heads to England with the Attingham Trust

Posted on June 26, 2025 by News Team
portrait of Michelle Fitzgerald on a blurry fall foliage background

Starting June 28, Michelle Fitzgerald, Curator of Collections for the Johns Hopkins University Museums, will embark on a 16-day journey through the stately homes and storied landscapes of the English countryside as a member of the 72nd Attingham Summer School. 


The VRC Welcomes You Back to Campus

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Lael Ensor-Bennett
film strips featuring various pieces of art

This blog post was contributed by VRC Staff Yvette Shu (Political Science and International Studies, ’27) Welcome back to campus, Blue Jays! As we return from spring break, don’t forget […]


The Writing Irish: Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the Sheridan Libraries 

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Claire Hughes
Portrait of Oscar Wilde lounging

This St. Patrick’s Day, we’re toasting the rich literary tradition of Ireland! From the modernist genius of James Joyce to the sharp Victorian wit of Oscar Wilde, Irish writers have left an indelible mark on literature.


Meet Our First Year Fellows: Storrie Kulynych-Irvine on Scaramella, a Faithful Latin Guard Dog!

Posted on March 14, 2025 by Paul Espinosa
scan of a medieval drawing of a dog posing alert to 3 black rats

Enjoy this post by Storrie Kulynych-Irvine, one of our Special Collections First-Year Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. My name is Storrie Kulynych-Irvin, and I’m excited to be working as […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Romila Detering on Early Student Records

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Brooke Shilling
scan of Johns Hopkins University's application to undergraduate admission from the early 1900s

Enjoy this post by Romila Detering, one of our Special Collections First-Year Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. As I paged through the yearbooks from the late 1910s, I gasped […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Meenal Srivastava on the Counterculture

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Heidi Herr
scan of a hippie usa guide and map

Enjoy this post by Meenal Srivastava, one of our Special Collections First-Year Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. “Ganesh is so fresh chillin on his throne/ surrounded by incense fruit […]


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