Has Special Collections acquired a Jamestown spy map from the Civil War era? Lindsay Bliss weighs in!
Special Collections
Jun 2019
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June 19, 2019During World War II, thousands of Italian prisoners of war were sent to the United States to help fill labor shortages created by the war. -
June 12, 2019In early 1792, Thomas Dobson, a prominent Philadelphia printer in the middle of printing the first American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, took a much smaller commission: William Currie’s An Historical Account of the Climates and Diseases of the United States of America. -
June 3, 2019Recent visitors to Swem Library will have noticed a change in the exhibit facing the front entrance.
May 2019
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May 28, 2019A daguerreotype of a young Baltimore merchant, the first victim of a bitter, homicidal political era, resides in the Special Collections Research Center in Swem Library—a ghostly message from the past. -
May 14, 2019The Reverend Curtis W. Harris is best known for his role in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., though he has not been studied closely by historians.
Mar 2019
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March 27, 2019A broadside for the performance of a traveling minstrel show, advertising “an evening of singing, dancing, music, and jokes,” caught the attention of a student in the Special Collections Reading Room this past week.
Feb 2019
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February 27, 2019Landrum passport, Grace Warren Landrum Papers -
February 1, 2019At the close of the eighteenth century, a series of revolutions broke out throughout the Atlantic World.
Jan 2019
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January 15, 2019Great News! The Office of the Bursar Records have been digitized and are available for researching, right from your computer. -
January 11, 2019The holiday season is a season for gift giving for many.