Brown University Library News

John D. Rockefeller Library
April 1 – June 15, 2008
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met in life, but Whitman has played an instrumental role in the way Americans think about Lincoln and his work as President since the assassination in April 1865. This exhibition, drawn from the McLellan Lincoln Collection and the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays at the John Hay Library, explores Whitman’s various memorials to Lincoln and their influence on generations of Americans, both those contemporaries who knew and remembered Lincoln, and those since who have had to imagine and re-imagine him for themselves.

Fourth Annual Don Wilmeth Endowed
Lectureship in American Theatre
Christopher Bigsby, Professor of American Studies at the University
of East Anglia, Norwich, England
Lownes Room, John Hay Library
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 7 p.m.
Known internationally as a major expert on American drama, Professor Bigsby has published more than thirty books covering American theatre, popular culture, and British drama. He is considered the premier authority on the playwright Arthur Miller and has recently completed a definitive biography, Arthur Miller: A Critical Study (2005). According to Prof. Bigsby, “Miller was often accused of denying or suppressing his Jewishness. This is an exploration of that, more particularly in the context of the Holocaust.”