Ah, majors! Tell someone you’re a student and what’s the first question they ask? Exactly. During your time as a blue jay, you encircle yourself with all the requirements of […]
Gallery of Majors
Scribbling Women: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Building Solidarity
Posts in this series were written by undergraduate students in the spring 2020 Museums & Society class Scribbling Women: Gender, Writing, and the Archive. We used rare books, archival materials, […]
Scribbling Women: Reclaiming the Bible in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Forest Leaves
Posts in this series were written by undergraduate students in the spring 2020 Museums & Society class Scribbling Women: Gender, Writing, and the Archive. We used rare books, archival materials, […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Aarushi Krishnan on Researching the Anti-Women’s Suffrage Movement
Enjoy this post by Aarushi Krishnan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! A few months ago, I had sent my first blog post out […]
Scribbling Women: Lydia Maria Child’s Writing for Women and Children
We are observing this year in the U.S. the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment and celebrating all those who fought for suffrage. This “Scribbling Women” series of […]
Scribbling Women: The Complex Legacy of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash,” […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Natalie Thornton on A Student’s Prayer Before Study
Enjoy this post by Natalie Thornton, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! My name is Natalie Thornton, and I am a pre-med Freshman studying […]
JHU Class of 2024: Apply to Be a Freshman Fellow!
Special Collections is accepting applications for Freshman Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to members of the JHU Class of 2024! The program is designed to introduce students to the […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Ivy Xun on Violence and the Vote: Reflections on Women’s Suffrage
Enjoy this post by Ivy Xun, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! The passage of the 19th amendment marks 2020 its historic centennial, while […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Yuqi Zhang on Watching Birds, Reading Birds, at Home, in Pandemic
Enjoy this post by Yuqi (Claudia) Zhang, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Hi guys! Hope you have stayed safe and healthy. Have any […]