Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Madeleine Schmitz translated Ma. Ein Porträt, one of the rare first editions of Lou Andreas-Salomé’s works housed by Special Collections. Schmitz created an online […]
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Rex Xiao conducted research with Special Collections’ romance comic book collection, exploring midcentury American life and teenage counterculture. By examining how romance comics, rooted […]
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) recipient Zhikang Xie conducted research with materials housed at the George Peabody Library and John Work Garret Library to analyze the evolution of late Victorian […]
We’re now deep into baking season, and while 2023’s apple harvest was a mixed bag nationally, Homewood Museum’s orchard of mostly apple (and a few pear) trees over-performed. As the […]
It is often said that the Johns Hopkins University Museums are laboratories of learning. Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library certainly lived up to that reputation in 2023, hosting […]
Enjoy this post by Maneeza Khan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. My eyes widened in awe as I read the impressive accomplishments of […]
Enjoy this post by Noël Da, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Hello and welcome! Having spent a few weeks parsing through the hazy […]
Enjoy this post by Clare Levine, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. My name is Clare Levine and thanks to my great-grandma, I am […]
Enjoy this post by Virankha Peter, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. My high school Latin teacher gave me a book as a gift […]
Enjoy this post by Victoria Popoola, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Latin is widely considered to be a niche language. Although many of […]