William H. Townsend’s pencil sketches of the Amistad captives portray people full of character, who when robbed of their freedom, fought to regain it.
The 43 captives’ arrival in New Haven in September 1839 caused a sensation. Townspeople lined the streets as the Africans were marched from the Long...
The Kelmscott-Goudy Press Legacy at Rochester Institute of Technology
by Amelia Fontanel, Associate Curator, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection
3pm Lecture in Sterling Memorial Library (SML) lecture hall
4pm Printing Demonstration in The Bibliographical Press, L&B Room, SML
In 1891 a simple iron...
The Digital Humanities Lab sponsored two events with Scott Weingart, the Digital Humanities Specialist at Carnegie Mellon University.
Workshop, 3/7: "Concepts and Practice of Network Analysis for Humanities Applications"
Bass Library L06, 1:00-5:00pm
Networks are simple formal representations for...
In 1891 a simple iron printing press was made in London and sold to William Morris, the founder of the Arts & Crafts movement. Whereupon this press was employed to produce the legendary book commonly known as The Kelmscott Chaucer, completed in 1896. For over a century since, admirers have...
The Yale Elizabethan Club will host a presentation in the Sterling Memorial Library on Tuesday, March 8 at 5:30 pm by Earle Havens, the Nancy H. Hall Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University; and Matthijs Lok,...
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US
Part II. C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University
Speakers: Dr. Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian; Dr. Sachie Noguchi, Japanese Studies Librarian
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm, Thursday March 10
Place: Room 218, Sterling Memorial...
The Arts Library will be hosting a Yale/Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 4, from 5-8 pm.
With 5,077,437 articles in English and counting, Wikipedia is the world's largest encyclopedia. It is free and crowd-sourced, but depends on the interests of those who contribute. As a result...
