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 Willie Lee Rose Papers: The Public and The Personal
Introducing the Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online!
Joining the many reference works and databases the Sheridan Libraries now own or license through Brill is the Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online (IEDO). For someone who has always been fascinated […]
New Data Services Lunch and Learn Series – Data Bytes
This fall, join JHU Data Services in a new talk series, Data Bytes! Data Bytes are short data-related talks, hosted by Data Services, and offered during lunch from 12 to […]
Early Modern Women, Golden Age Spanish Comedy, and Other Collection Highlights
Through the generosity of Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, the Sheridan Libraries is pleased to announce that we have digitized almost 2500 books, manuscripts 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 […]
JHU Libraries Supports Open Access Books Through MIT Direct to Open
JHU Libraries is excited to support MIT Press’s Direct to Open initiative, which funds the open access publication of high-quality, peer-reviewed books through the collective contributions of libraries all over […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Julia Mendes Queiroz on Wrapping up Reading between the Rhumb Lines
Enjoy this post by Julia Mendes Queiroz, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year! Hello everyone! Welcome to my second, and final, blog post about […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Elena Echavarria on Translating an Untranslated Spanish Play
Enjoy this post by Elena Echavarria, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year! In the globally interconnected community in which we exist, translation has become […]
Johns Hopkins Libraries Announce Recipients of First TOME Monograph Subvention Grants, Invite Applications for 2022/23 Grants
Faculty authors in the humanities and social sciences are invited to apply for grants of up to $15,000 to support the publication of open-access digital monographs The first five recipients […]