Are you interested in learning more about the copyright issues that may arise as you develop your scholarship? Would you like to understand what copyright is, how to work with […]
New Workshops: Copyright for Graduate Students
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Homing Pigeons
Growing up in Arizona, my family would often travel out East to visit relatives. A highlight for me was always New York City, where I developed my childhood love of […]
Meet our Freshman Fellows: Ankita Sen on A Silent Statue that Speaks Volumes
Enjoy this post by Ankita Sen, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! My name is Ankita Sen and I am a first year student […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: DJ Quezada on Charting a Course and Reflecting on Researching Maps
Enjoy this post by DJ Quezada, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! Since I began this project three months ago, I have embarked on […]
Sheet Music Deep Dive: Blue Glass
As the curator of the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, a phrase I hear often is “I didn’t know sheet music could be used to study…” Levy collected 30,000 songs […]
BLC Café Set to Reopen March 15 with Contactless Service
Do you miss great coffee? Great news! Beginning Monday, March 15, the Daily Grind’s BLC Café in the Brody Learning Commons will be open to current Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, […]
Got Data? JHU Data Services is Here to Help you Navigate It
Written by Laurel Poolman Researchers aren’t born knowing how to manage research data. Or to write a Python code. Or to make interactive maps. There are countless data-related tools available to […]
Read It & Eat It Returns!
I don’t know about you, but I have spent this past year reading like Encyclopedia Brown on some sort of words-per-minute bender and getting so desperately tired of all the […]
Black History Month at Homewood: Honoring Enslaved People at Homewood Museum
The story of Homewood and slavery did not end when Harriet Carroll left Homewood in 1816, taking the Ross family with her to Philadelphia. Homewood remained in the hands of the Carroll family until 1838, during which time many of the individuals enslaved by Charles Carroll of Homewood were relocated to another Carroll estate, Doughoregan […]
Black History Month at Homewood: The Dining Room and the Politics of Plenty
In honor of Black History Month, JHU Museums’ curators have prepared a series of blog posts about the enslaved community at Homewood in the early 1800s. Today’s post examining the roles of enslaved workers in dining and entertaining at historic Homewood is the second post in a series of three. To read the first blog […]