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Context is Key: Processing the Roland Park Company Archives

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Jordon Steele

By Rob Gamble, Processing Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History Part of a monthly series of posts highlighting uncovered items of note, and the archival process brought […]


Gertrude Stein, Emperor of the Avant-Garde… and Its Aftermath

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Gabrielle Dean

A funny thing happened on the way to the twentieth century. Literary conventions, along with the artistic conventions native to most forms, came under attack. Anti-convention campaigns across the globe […]


A History of Johns Hopkins Yearbooks

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Jim Stimpert

In 1889, the undergraduates of The Johns Hopkins University published their first yearbook. Entitled The Debutante, the little book with a black-and-blue cover consists of 110 pages, and only a handful […]


Lighting Out for the Territories (actually just for the BLC)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Brian Shields

The Sheridan Libraries Special Collections main reading room and department in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library will be closed starting June 18 to allow staff to move into the Brody […]


FlowerMart: Where Old Books & Lemon Sticks Collide

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Heidi Herr

Well, not really. You see, the lemon sticks are supposed to be consumed before you look at the rare books, silly! Anyway, are you looking for some weekend plans that […]


Take a Historical Tour of Istanbul with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu!

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Chella Vaidyanathan

If you’ve read any historical travel accounts, you may notice that there some similarities in terms of their observations regarding non-western countries’ governments, legal systems, cultures, religious practices and customs and traditions. Yet, […]


Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Chella Vaidyanathan

Are you taking the Science on Display or Exhibiting the Global class this semester? If yes, please check out the World’s Fair collection in our Special Collections. We have been actively building this […]


Spring is in the air, and so is Poetry

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Sue Waterman

April is National Poetry Month, and we love to feature poetry in all its forms during this celebratory period. How many forms can poetry take, you ask? Well, there’s the […]


Who’s In Brody? Special Collections!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Margaret Burri

The Brody Learning Commons will be student-focused space, full of natural light, group study space and a bigger cafe (no more waiting for tables, we hope!). We have, though, carved out some […]


The Divine Comedy: 800 Years Young

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Sue Waterman

Canon wars aside, on anyone’s list of the most important works of all times you will surely find Dante’s Divine Comedy. Written 800 years ago, this poem in 3 parts […]


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