Nikki Giovanni is Amazing! Two New Videos
Even though National Poetry Month ends today, we hope these new videos featuring the indelible poet Nikki Giovanni will linger…
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Using Rose Library resources remotely
Although the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is currently closed to on-site visitors, many of our…
In Memoriam: On the Passing of Reverend Doctor Joseph Echols Lowery
The recent passing of Reverend Doctor Joseph Echols Lowery on March 27, 2020 has been sobering to say the…
She Puts Things In: Toni Morrison and the Legacy of Black Women Writers
In partnership with Emory University’s Rose Library and the Exhibitions team of Woodruff Library, Georgia Public Library Service…
In Memoriam: James V. Hatch: An Artist, Educator, and Visionary with Tremendous Inf ...
For more than fifty years, James Vernon Hatch (1928-2020) was a leading authority of African American theater, and along with…
Following the Fellows: Daniel Ciba on Esther Merle Jackson
In Spring 2019, Daniel Ciba, an assistant professor of Theater (History and Dramatic Criticism) at Ramapo College of New Jersey,…
Recent African American History and Culture
Lift Every Voice 2020: What can the past tell us about the present?
Beginning this month, the Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University is undertaking a year-long project to explore citizenship through the lens of Reconstruction. Follow us on Twitter @EveryVoice2020 to learn more about the project and how to join the...
Debating Democracy: The Legacy of James W. Ford
In June 2019, Mary “Allison” Jobe conducted research as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Allison is a Ph.D. student in the history department at American University. She was awarded a Rose fellowship in support of her dissertation “We...
Sisterhood and Struggle in the 1970s Art World
In June 2019, Dr. Amy Tobin conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Dr. Tobin is a Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge and the Curator of Exhibitions, Research...
The Sullivan Principles at Work: The Conflicted Activism of Rev. Leon Howard Sulliv ...
In July 2019, Mattie Webb conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Mattie is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current project looks...
Negrophilia and the Black Woman: The Exploitation of Essentialism
In June 2019, Dr. Jeremy McMillan conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Dr. McMillan is a pianist who currently serves as a visiting professor of music at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama....
Every Man His Own
Jina DuVernay is the Visiting Archivist for African American Collections at the Rose Library. She will be blogging regularly throughout her appointment. The Rose Library recently cataloged a book that it acquired in 2015, 200 years after its publication in...