Increasing Access to the Veterans of Hope Collection
New Rose Library Intern Hannah Stubblefield is a graduate student at the University of Illinois pursuing a degree in…
African American History and Culture
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In Memoriam: Paul Carter Harrison
In Memoriam: Paul Carter Harrison Theophus ‘Thee’ Smith is a Professor Emeritus in the Emory University Department of Religion. He…
Black Women Building Their Own Archives, A Practice
Monet Lewis-Timmons is an English PhD candidate at the University of Delaware and an alumna of Emory University (℅ 2018)…
The Last Slave Ship: The Wanderer Logbook
In 1858, the American schooner, The Wanderer, sailed along the Eastern coast of the United States. The vessel’s log, written by…
Tom Dent and the Literature of Black Suppression
Justin Haynes is an associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon College. He was awarded a Billops-Hatch fellowship in support of…
Uncovering Enslavement on the Main Emory Campus: Two Receipts from the Civil War Er ...
Mark Auslander is a historical anthropologist and former faculty member at Emory College and Oxford College. Let us consider two…
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Geoffrey Holder’s Scripts are now available for research
Abbey Hafer is a PhD Candidate in the Art History department at Emory University specializing in early modern Italian art and architecture. She is a Graduate Processing Assistant for the Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Rose Library....
Rose Library’s collections tie the past and present together: Rabbi Jacob Rothsch ...
Today Senators Jon Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock will be sworn into office. Ossoff will take the oath of office using Rabbi Jacob Rothschild’s Chumash. Rothschild served as the rabbi for Atlanta’s Reform congregation, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, usually referred to as...
Art Imitates Life: Artists and Authors as Activists
This is the fourth and final post in our Racial Justice Blog Series, which brings together Emory Libraries’ resources with the current struggle to foster social change and anti-racism. Over the course of the series, topics have included Black Student Activism at...
Lift Every Voice: Reconstruction Activism
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry invite students, members of the Emory community and the general public to “Reconstruction Activism” on Dec. 10th from 10:00am-11:00 am EST. Panelists include Dr. Francine Allen...
Getting to Know Anicka Austin, Visiting Archivist for Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de ...
Rose Library is staffed by an amazing group of people who are knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about archives. The “Getting to Know…” blog post series asks 5 questions so our staff can introduce themselves in their own words. Visiting Archivist...
The Panther and The Pig – The Black Panther Party and the Art of Political Commun ...
Shelly Asquith In October 2019, Shelly Asquith, a postgraduate student at the University of Leeds, conducted research as a Rose Library fellow, funded by the J. Herman Blake and Emily L. Moore Award for research in the Black Panther Party collections. I...