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: Lydia Maria Child’s Writing for Women and Children
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,” […]
A Place for Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Publications
JHU COVID-19 Publications is a collection in JScholarship, our institutional repository, that provides a space for faculty to deposit their work that is related to COVID-19. At first this was […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Natalie Thornton on A Student’s Prayer Before Study
Enjoy this post by Natalie Thornton, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! My name is Natalie Thornton, and I am a pre-med Freshman studying […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Lubna Azmi on Black History at Hopkins
Enjoy this post by Lubna Azmi, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! I spent my entire first year researching Black Activism at JHU only […]
Course Materials: Open Textbooks and Library Resources
Fall classes are guaranteed to be unusual. Some courses will be online only; some courses will use a hybrid format. To ensure equal access for all students, you will need […]
JHU Class of 2024: Apply to Be a Freshman Fellow!
Special Collections is accepting applications for Freshman Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to members of the JHU Class of 2024! The program is designed to introduce students to the […]
Evergreen Obscurus #5: John W. M. Lee – Evergreen’s First “Curator”?
JHU Press‘s 2017 book Evergreen: The Garrett Family, Collectors and Connoisseurs contains a short reference to a man named John W. M. Lee (1848-1896), who was hired in the 1880s […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Ivy Xun on Violence and the Vote: Reflections on Women’s Suffrage
Enjoy this post by Ivy Xun, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! The passage of the 19th amendment marks 2020 its historic centennial, while […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Yuqi Zhang on Watching Birds, Reading Birds, at Home, in Pandemic
Enjoy this post by Yuqi (Claudia) Zhang, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Hi guys! Hope you have stayed safe and healthy. Have any […]