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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.


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Storrie Kulynych-Irvin on Academic Muses and Mules

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Paul Espinosa
medieval ink drawing of a mule with a bird on it's rear end defecating into a bowl held by a man

Enjoy this post by Storrie Kulynych-Irvin, one of our 2024-2025 First-Year Fellows. Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 cycle! In this post I will be picking up and expanding […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Meenal Srivastava on Cultural Collisions on the Hippie Trail

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Heidi Herr
front cover from the literary journal Salted Feathers showing photographic portraits of poets

Enjoy this post by Meenal Srivastava, one of our 2024-2025 First-Year Fellows. Applications are now open for the 2025-2026 cycle! Hi everyone! My name is Meenal. I’m a rising sophomore […]


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.


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

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Brooke Shilling
photograph of handwritten undergraduate record from past student

Enjoy this post by Romila Detering, one of our Special Collections First-Year Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. Applications for the 2025-2026 cycle are now open! I am excited to […]


Riders Up! A History of Steeplechase Racing in America

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Kristen Acampora
photograph of a full color painting of a bay horse with one sock and a star and snip on his face trotting in a steeplechase field

Did you know that according to the Maryland Horse Council and the American Horse Council, there are more horses per square mile (7.5) in Maryland than in any other state […]


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 […]


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