Join us on October 23 as Manuscript Division historian Josh Levy and reference librarian Loretta Deaver interview Cheryl Krasnick Warsh about her new biography of pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey and her pioneering battle against the life-threatening prescription drug thalidomide.
Join Manuscript Division senior archives specialist Laura Kells and author Kurt Jensen as they highlight the work and legacy of film and theater director Rouben Mamoulian and Jensen’s new book, Peerless: Rouben Mamoulian, Hollywood, and Broadway with collection specialist and host Barbara Bair.
Join staff of the Manuscript and Serial & Government Publications divisions for a roundtable discussion with three comic studies scholars who will discuss psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s anti-comics legacy and its afterlives in more recent clashes over representations of race and sexuality in comics and graphic novels.
Join us on May 7, 2024, to celebrate the Library’s NAACP collection with a presentation by Dr. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice.
In honor of Poetry Month, join professors and coeditors Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein as they discuss their new book The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose with Manuscript Division historian Barbara Bair.
Join the Manuscript Division and an interdisciplinary panel of scientists and scholars on August 1, at 12:00pm (EDT) to reflect on the global legacies of the atomic bomb.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam. The Manuscript Division recently joined an event with veterans and Gold Star families that became more about listening than telling, and offered powerful insights about national healing and the power of conversation in a shared space.
Join historians Meg McAleer and Josh Levy at noon (EDT) on Thursday, May 11, as they discuss founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud’s narrow escape from Nazi-controlled Vienna with Andrew Nagorski, author of the new book Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom.
Join us on November 2 for a conversation with author Jonathan Rees about his recent biography of controversial pure food crusader Harvey Washington Wiley.