“Love me, Love my Vote” proclaims a cherubim-faced little girl who is staring directly at the viewer and pointing proudly at her “votes for women” sash. The postcard, designed by […]
Love Me, Love My Vote?
Love Notes from the Levy Sheet Music Collection
The Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection comprises over 30,000 pieces of sheet music published between 1780 and 1980. Donated to the University by Lester Levy, the collection is renowned for […]
DURA and Hugh Hawkins Research Fellowships
The Sheridan Libraries Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards, or DURA, are available for students working on research projects that draw on primary source materials in the rare book, manuscript, and archival […]
A New Coronavirus and Open Science
News about a new coronavirus moves quickly around the world and so does the science. Have you thought about how or why that science can travel so expeditiously around the […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Aarushi Krishnan on the Anti-Suffrage Movement
Enjoy this post by Aarushi Krishnan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! My name is Aarushi Krishnan, and I’ve had the privileged to be […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Yuqi Zhang on Taking Wing in Special Collections
Enjoy this post by Yuqi Zhang, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Hi, I am Yuqi Zhang (Claudia). About me: I am one of […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Lubna Azmi on Researching Black Activism at Hopkins
Enjoy this post by Lubna Azmi, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Trying to develop what I was going to research for the Freshmen […]
Jan 1: Public Domain Day 2020
Last December we celebrated the first Public Domain Day in 20 years. Now they’re an annual event, like a birthday. On 1/1/2020, books, poems, music, and films published in 1924 […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Ivy Xun on the American Women’s Suffrage Movement
Enjoy this post by Ivy Xun, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! Hello, and welcome to my first blog post! My name is Ivy […]
Let There Be Light!
As our daylight hours dwindle, I am always reminded of Dylan Thomas. Not because he wrote “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” but because of his poem “Do not go gentle […]