The Library of Congress has digitized the papers of Rosa Parks, enabling free online access to everything from her first-hand recollections of the Montgomery bus boycott and personal correspondence with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to family photographs, tax ...
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will hold its annual bus trip to the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in Manhattan, on Friday, March 11. All members of the campus community are welcome. The cost of ...
The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, celebrating 50 years as an organized research center, will host the 25th Annual Bernardo Lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 3, in AM-189, the Admissions Center. Mary Carruthers, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature Emerita, ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—When a curator at Yale University started digging through his gallery’s storage space, he wasn’t expecting to find anything special. But within the piles of mediocre works, a 1.5-meter-tall canvas caught his eye. Called The Education of the Virgin, it depicted ...
Sometime around the year 1491, the German cartographer Henricus Martellus produced an influential map of the world, which was likely used by Christopher Columbus on his 1492 expedition to the Americas. Naturally, Martellus made sure to note all the wildest rumors about ...
Special Collections’ featured book for February is Black Film as a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African-American Aesthetic Tradition by Gladstone L. Yearwood. In this book, Yearwood explores cinema as part of the black cultural tradition. He argues that black film ...