Joshua Massey is a Ph.D. candidate at Bard Graduate Center, where they study the art and material culture of the contemporary American South. Their dissertation explores the yard environments of artists Lonnie Holley, Mary Tillman Smith, Dinah Young, and Joe Minter, and the ways in which they function as sites of Black creative, social, and Read More …
纪念埃默里大学校友林乐知(Young John Allen)启航远渡中国164 周年 by Guo-hua Wang, Emory Libraries’ Chinese Studies librarian and Head of the International Area Studies Team December 18, 1859 was the start of Young John Allen’s 209-day voyage to China from New York with his young wife and infant daughter. The family spent Christmas and New Year’s Day on the ship, enduring Read More …
Mark Auslander is a historical anthropologist and former faculty member at Emory College and Oxford College. Let us consider two receipts issued during the Civil War in the town of Decatur, Georgia. Both cast light on the structures and experiences of enslavement on the lands that would become, many decades later, parts of the main Read More …
Guest Blogger, Kurt Edward Kemper, a professor of history at Dakota State University, has authored his latest book, Before March Madness: The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball from the University of Illinois Press, based on research conducted at the Rose Library several years ago. For years, visitors to Emory’s bookstore saw the Read More …
This is the first in a series of blog posts that brings together Emory Libraries’ resources with the current struggle to foster social change and anti-racism. Over the course of the series, topics will include Black Student Activism at Emory, Protests and Movements, Voting Rights and Public Policy, and Authors and Artists as Activists. We Read More …
Back issues of the Emory Wheel held in the University Archives are now available digitally to the Emory community via the Emory Digital Gallery. Anyone with an Emory Network ID can login and access the resource. The digitized version of the Wheel covers 1919 through 2009 and is digitized from the original newsprint version of Read More …
NaVosha Copeland, Emory College Class of 2016, Emory University Archives Intern, Summer 2016 On a hot August day during my first semester at Emory College in 2012 I walked to my advisor’s office that was on the campus quadrangle. Having been assigned my advisor by the Emory Pre-Major Advising Connections at Emory (PACE) program, her Read More …
Life at Emory has dramatically changed since the University moved to Atlanta in 1915. Instead of streetcars, we have buses. Instead of a small, compact campus, we have a multitude of buildings and annexes. Instead of poodle skirts and bomber jackets, we have leggings and blue jeans. Do you ever wonder what campus was like Read More …
In the spring of 2012, the Emory University Archives began an audiovisual materials survey and re-processing project. After months of wrangling cassette tapes, VHS tapes, 16mm film, and more, the vast majority of archival audiovisual resources in the University Archives have been added to our finding aids in MARBL’s EmoryFindingAids database. One new collection consisting Read More …
