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 […]
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Using Ebooks This Fall
Though the Sheridan Libraries are pleased to continue to offer curbside pickup for many print books this fall (see here for details), we recognize that ebooks are often preferred by […]
Scribbling Women: The Changing Cover Art of Zitkála-Šá’s American Indian Stories
Posts in this series were written by undergraduate students in the spring 2020 Museums & Society class Scribbling Women: Gender, Writing, and the Archive. We used rare books, archival materials, and digital primary sources […]
Scribbling Women: Alice Duer Miller, Famous and then Forgotten
Posts in this series were written by undergraduate students in the spring 2020 Museums & Society class Scribbling Women: Gender, Writing, and the Archive. We used rare books, archival materials, and digital primary […]
Scribbling Women: Lydia Maria Child’s Writing for Women and Children
We are observing this year in the U.S. the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment and celebrating all those who fought for suffrage. This “Scribbling Women” series of […]
Scribbling Women: The Complex Legacy of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash,” […]
Libraries & Museums Curators Share Black History and Anti-Racist Media Recommendations
Like many throughout the country, staffers of the Sheridan Libraries and University Museums are turning to books and other media in an effort to better understand the ways in which […]
Latin Hats & Latin Libraries: My Freshman Fellows Experience
My name is Lucy Massey and over the course of my Freshman year, I’ve had the opportunity to engage with several artifacts which illuminate the role of post-classical Latin (or […]
Libraries Through the Ages–Part II
The first post in this series gave some general information about what a library is–we will now explore the early history of libraries. The earliest libraries we know about appeared […]
Transforming Summer Reading: Graphic Novel Adaptations of Literary Classics
It’s summer, and you’re thinking to yourself how you’d really like to catch up on reading some classic works of fiction, but, hey, maybe you’re also thinking how you’d also […]