A common and complex practice within Tibetan Buddhism is the millenia-old, slow and careful creation of sand mandalas.
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May 14, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsThe 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. -
February 27, 2019Posted in: Special CollectionsLandrum passport, Grace Warren Landrum Papers -
May 9, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsThe quotation in the title of this post is from a letter about an 1890 revolution in Buenos Aires known as The Revolution of the Park. -
April 11, 2018Posted in: Special CollectionsAs an Exhibit Apprentice in Swem’s Special Collections, I had the opportunity to curate a World War I centennial exhibit. -
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November 22, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsDown in the belly of Special Collections sits a mysterious blue velvet box. Its contents are simultaneously mundane and bizarre, important for the study of language in Spain, and remarkably unremarkable. The box bears the inscription Matxin de Zalbaren Gutuna, La Carta de Machin de Zalba, 1416. What is it? Why do we have it? What makes it both special and ordinary? -
July 5, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsWhat is the difference between printing and publishing? This is perhaps something many of us don’t think about, but there is a difference. After all, we now speak of things being published on the internet, so there is not an inherent relationship between print and publication, at least not anymore. Two documents from the Thomas G. -
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May 31, 2017Posted in: Special CollectionsIt may seem like Spanish empire in the Americas would have little to do with European politics, but we should not assume that the Atlantic world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was any less global than our own.