Julia Weist, a Brooklyn-based artist, has posted a 17th Century Word on a large billboard and she wants to be the only one on the Internet using it. If you […]
Where the Visual Meets the Verbal: Letters as Art
The Sheridan Libraries’ significant avant-garde collections hold some real gems; among them is one of the most important collections in North America of the mid-20th century French movement of Lettrisme. […]
Women at Hopkins: Trailblazers since the 1870s
By Rachel Shavel, A&S ’18, Hopkins Retrospective Student Assistant As we celebrate Women’s History Month, Hopkins Retrospective would like to recognize the many women who have made Hopkins great. From […]
Of Ephemeral Cats, Popish Plots, and the Baltimore Occult
Think Special Collections is only composed of fancy materials like Shakespeare folios or exquisite medieval books of hours? Well, think again! Students enrolled in the Intersession course “Cheap and (Not […]
A Celebration of New Year’s Celebrations
When the crowds gather at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on the evening of December 31, and the live music begins playing, and the fireworks bring the night sky to vivid life, […]
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive
The guest blogger for this post, Neil Weijer, is a Denis Curatorial Fellow at the Sheridan Libraries and a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. Weijer co-curated the Fakes, Lies, […]
Henry Augustus Rowland
When Daniel Coit Gilman was named president of The Johns Hopkins University in 1875, the trustees left the matter of recruiting faculty in his hands. With an eye to the […]
Muttonchops at the Bat!
It’s baseball season in Baltimore! Huzzah! Huzzah? Yeah, the past decade or so was less than magical when it comes to the Orioles ability to, you know, win, but even […]
Of Marginal Interest
Have you ever been warned by a teacher or librarian not to write in books? Rather than being harmful, it turns out that marginalia can often provide rich insight into […]
Web Archiving & the Wayback Machine
Would you like to see old versions of the website for your student group to find out who ran it and what they did? Or maybe you’d like to examine the […]