Enjoy this post by Arusa Malik, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Bam! Pow! Crash! Thump! When I think of these classic onomatopoeias, I […]
Meet our Freshman Fellows: Amy Li on Coeducation
Enjoy this post by Amy Li, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Amy Li, and […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Victoria Popoola on Translating Untranslated Works
Enjoy this post by Victoria Popoola, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Hello! My name is Victoria Popoola, and I am studying Mechanical Engineering […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Vanessa Han on Egyptomania
Enjoy this post by Vanessa Han, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Hello and welcome to my blog post! My name is Vanessa, and […]
The 2015 Baltimore Uprising was a Trans Turning Point
By Sophia Lola (JHU ’22) How did the 2015 Baltimore Uprising impact trans activism? This was the question I had as a student in Dr. Joseph Plaster’s “Queer Oral History” […]
Calling All First-Year Students: Apply to be a Freshman Fellow!
Special Collections is accepting applications for Freshman Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to our fabulous First-Year undergraduates! The program is designed to introduce students to the joys, challenges, and […]
Exhibit Spotlight: Hoen Lithograph Co.
Grace Notes in American History: 200 Years of Songs from the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection is currently on view at the George Peabody Library. The exhibit, which runs through […]
Romancing the Comic Book Now on View!
While iconic characters like Batman and Spider-Man were mesmerizing readers with their dual identities and crime-fighting ways, an alternate comic book timeline was booming, featuring the adventures of airline stewardess […]
99 Years Ago Today: At the Intersection of Hopkins History and Family History
On March 28, 1923, my great-grandfather, John Edgar Shilling, died on the Homewood campus at age thirty-three. He was not employed by the university, nor was he a student. According […]
Our Heart Throbs for Barbara Friedlander!
“The night was full of magic. I could swear the computer was smiling at us,” and with those dreamy words, a fetching young couple walks toward their future of love […]