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Posted by: Josh Levy
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.
Posted in: Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Michelle Krowl
Join us on September 17, the anniversary of the 1862 battle of Antietam, as Manuscript Division historian Michelle Krowl and reference librarian Lara Szypszak interview historian George C. Rable about his new book Conflict of Command: George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and the Politics of War, which reevaluates the command relationship between General McClellan and President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Posted in: Civil War, Events, War and Society
Posted by: Josh Levy
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.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Josh Levy
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.
Posted in: African American History, Events, Science and Technology, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
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.
Posted in: African American History, Events
Posted by: Julie Miller
George Washington is widely known to have had no biological children of his own. Less well known is his role in raising several of the children and grandchildren of Martha Washington’s marriage to her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis. In this informal conversation with Manuscript Division curator Julie Miller and archivist Kate Madison, Cassandra Good, …
Posted in: Early America, Events
Posted by: Josh Levy
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.
Posted in: Events, Literature Culture & the Arts
Posted by: Julie Miller
In honor of African American History Month, join editors Michal Raz-Russo and John F. Callahan as they discuss their new book Ralph Ellison: Photographer with Prints and Photographs Division reference librarian Melissa Lindberg and Manuscript Division historian Barbara Bair.
Posted in: African American History, Events