A chance discovery returns the color and life to indigenous paintings Ninety years ago, in 1926, a small group of traditional artists from the Kiowa nation—Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Lois Smoky and Monroe Tsatoke—entered the University of Oklahoma to participate in a specialized art program designed to encourage their development and … Exhibit | Stephen Mopope Paintings
An opening reception for the exhibit, A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II, will be held at the John Hay Library on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 6 p.m., followed by a screening of Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War at 8 p.m. in the Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship … Exhibit | A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II
Please join the Library for an Alumni Reunion Forum on Saturday, May 28 from 3 – 4:30 p.m. in the Willis Reading Room at the John Hay Library. Professor Beth Taylor, Co-Director of the Nonfiction Writing Program, will moderate a panel of alumni veterans and family who will discuss their memories from the Vietnam War. This … Alumni Reunion Forum | The Vietnam War: Our Veterans’ Stories
During National Preservation Week on Friday, April 29, 2016 from 2 – 3 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, Terra Huber, Assistant Paper Conservator at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, will give a talk entitled, “The Conservation of a 16th Century Papal Bull on Parchment.” This event is free and open to … Event | Terra Huber on “The Conservation of a 16th Century Papal Bull on Parchment”
The Brown University Library is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research. The Committee decided this year to award two prizes, both for projects that coincidentally were done for the same course, Michael Vorenberg’s first-year seminar, “Abraham Lincoln: Historical and Cultural Perspectives” (HIST 0551A). Rachel Gold ‘19 … Winners of the 2016 Undergraduate Prize for Excellence in Library Research
In 1704, Isaac Newton published the first scientific work on light. Working carefully but not very cautiously, Newton began compiling the results of hundreds of experiments he performed in the quiet space of his own rooms at Cambridge over the course of four decades, from the 1660s forward. Many of these experiments involved Newton using … Exhibit | Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era
In October 2015, Christopher Jennings and Bridget Winstanley, son and daughter of British and South African scholar Hubert Dudley Jennings, donated their father’s personal papers to Brown University Library. In January of this year, Folha de S.Paulo, one of Brazil’s leading daily newspapers, featured an article about the discovery of the Hubert Jennings archive in … Special Collections | Hubert Jennings Papers on Fernando Pessoa
April 27, 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation from 1948 through 1994. Apartheid became an international issue and a prominent topic for human rights activists around the world and in South Africa. Apartheid famously came … South Africa Catalyst Project
It arrived on my desk one morning. A handmade scrapbook labeled Correspondances Militaires, 1916-1917 covered in paper the color of the French military uniform – bleu horizon. Each letter was carefully pasted along one edge to a thin strip of paper. Each letter was written to Emile Toulouse from his brothers Eugène and Jean and … Fleurs des Tranchées = Trench Flowers
January 1, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the document now known as the Emancipation Proclamation. Though its title suggests a simple executive order issued by the President, in fact the Emancipation Proclamation had a complex and fascinating evolution that is worthy of further discussion. Bookseller and bibliographer Charles Francis Eberstadt set out to document … Celebrating Emancipation
