Explore a sampling of this collection consisting of administrative files and zines that focus on social justice and marginalized identities dating from 1974 to 2018. Areas of strength include zines by and about people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer peoples, the disabled, interpersonal violence, sex and relationships, sex work, the prison … Exhibit | The Malana Krongelb Zine Collection, 1974-2018
Examine two prints published in 1819 following The Peterloo Massacre and gain insight into an early 19th-century protest for political reform. On August 16, 1819, a peaceful crowd of between 60,000 and 80,000 workers gathered in St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, England, to voice their demands for political reform. Poor economic conditions and the lack of … Exhibit | The Peterloo Massacre: A Bicentennial Remembrance
American Revolutionary War PrintsLondon: Hogg, 1790Brown University Library, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection Explore Independence Day from a British point of view. “Engraved for Barnard’s New Complete & Authentic History of England,”this collection of 4 copper-engraved plates after William Hamilton, 1751-1801 (artist) feature significant milestones from the American Revolutionary War (Apr 19, 1775 – Sep … Exhibit | American Revolutionary War Prints
WBUR.org has posted an article about the Gay Pulp Fiction collection at the John Hay Library. “Brown University Is Archiving Gay Pulp Fiction To Preserve A Moment Of LGBTQ History” by Miranda Suarez also features Heather Cole, Curator for Literary & Popular Culture Collections, and Finch Collins, a John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellow. 90.9 WBUR-FM … Announcement | WBUR Features Library’s Gay Pulp Fiction Archive
From humble beginnings as a studio space rented by four RISD guys in the fall of 1995, rose the now mythic Fort Thunder collaborative, located in a dilapidated mill building on the west side of Providence. While there were other decrepit mills nearby, with funky names like Munch House, Box of Knives, & Pink Rabbit, … Exhibit | Fort Thunder & Lightning Bolt: Old Mill / New Music
The Holy Bible: containing The Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England John Eliot (1604–1690) … Exhibit | Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (“Eliot Indian Bible”)
A student-driven project led by undergraduate Shira Buchsbaum ’19, the recently launched website Fields of Hay offers students a guide for making use of the John Hay Library and Brown’s special collections resources. Written by Shira Buchsbaum ’19 Mary Elizabeth Sharpe and My First Foray into Special Collections My journey to the John Hay Library … A Student’s Journey through Special Collections and the Creation of “Fields of Hay”
The Brown University Library has acquired access to the database, Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, a compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements from the 1900s – 2010s. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and … Announcement | New Database: Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
This exhibit by ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Byrd McDaniel displays some of the memorabilia central to air guitar playing in the United States and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in particular. Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the contemporary U.S. Air Guitar Championships stem from a long line of related practices throughout the twentieth … Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar
Folklore Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899–1979) New York, New York: Hagstrom Company, Inc., 1946 Brown University Library, Special Collections This colorful Folklore Music Map of the United States contains period illustrations, musical classifications and a bibliography. With its visual overlay of music and geography, the map … Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States
