This year, three of the world’s most prominent religions welcome Spring by celebrating their faiths. While Passover and Easter are always celebrated in Springtime, the alignment of these holidays with […]
Wishing You Happy Holidays!
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Arusa Malik on Pop Culture & Feminism
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: 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 […]
Happy Spooky Season!
Greetings, Foolish Mortals! Whether you want to study or relax, we’ve got more magic, monsters, murders, and mysteries than you could shake your witch’s broom at. So drag your body […]
The Willie Lee Rose Papers: The Public and The Personal
Historian Willie Lee Rose (1927-2018) is well known for her contributions to the study of Reconstruction in post-Civil War America, as well as her advocacy for women in the academic […]
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” […]
Use the JHU Data Archive to Share Your Research Data
This blog post was written by Chen Chiu Need to share research data publicly? The JHU Data Archive can help! Do you need to share data to fulfill funder’s or […]
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 […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Julia Mendes Queiroz on Mapping the Caribbean
Enjoy this post by Julia Mendes Queiroz, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year! Hello, library blog readers! Whether you are a cartography connoisseur, interested […]