by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist Taylor Swift is a household name, and for good reason – over the last 18 years she has written and recorded over 300 songs, changed genres multiple times, headlined sold out stadium tours, and shattered record after record. She has recorded eleven studio albums, each with their own feel and Read More …
By Jennifer Gunter King, drawing heavily on writing by Dr. Pellom McDaniels (1968-2020) In honor of Juneteenth and drawing from its extensive African American archives, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is thrilled to announce the public release of “Into the Archives: Small Steps – C.T. Vivian, Upward Bound and the Read More …
By Jennifer Gunter King, Director of Rose Library The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library seeks nominations and applications for our next Curator of African American Collections and Curator for Literature and Poetry Collections positions. If you envision building library collections that advance research and public interests as part of a dynamic research Read More …
Liadan Shaw-Smith is a rising senior at Atlanta’s Marist School. She will be blogging throughout her Summer internship at the Rose Library. My name is Liadan Shaw-Smith, and for the next few weeks I will be interning in the Rose Library with the intention of creating a display for the Stuart A. Rose case and Read More …
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 1815 titled, Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor : Or, A Practical Treatise on the Read More …
Every creative, cultural and racial experience has to do with my work. I sift and look and taste. Camille Billops (1977) The passing of Camille Billops (1933-2019) comes as a shock to the system. She will forever be remembered as a force in the art world, especially as an advocate for the preservation of the Read More …
Marlo Starr (PhD Candidate, English Department) is the 2017-2018 Alice Walker Research Scholar in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Her project centers on the archives and scholarship of poet and children’s book writer Lucille Clifton who was contemporary of Alice Walker. Marlo will be contributing towards a blog series based on Read More …
In perhaps her best recognized poem, “won’t you celebrate with me” Lucille Clifton invites readers to celebrate her life. Though “born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman,” the poem’s speaker explains that she has managed to forge a kind of life, and at the poem’s conclusion, she again asks us to celebrate: “that everyday Read More …
Last night photographer Hugo Fernandes spoke in Emory’s Woodruff Library about his portrait series Intimate Strangers. To create the series of striking portraits, Fernandes recruited his subjects using websites and apps primarily designed to arrange hook ups (brief sexual encounters). His strategy has changed as the technology has changed, from using sites like gay.com in Read More …
Opening soon at the Rose Library, “A Question of Manhood: African Americans and WWI” commemorates the centennial of the First World War, while celebrating the African American men who served as citizen-soldiers at a time when they were systematically denied full access to the promises democracy. The exhibit explores the challenges and conflicts, as well Read More …
Currey Seminar Awardee Mallory Carnes traveled to Leipzig, Germany in May 2016 to study the German Protestant hymn “Herzliebster Jesu.” Thursday, May 12, 2016 Today was my sixth day in Leipzig, Germany and my second-to-last day working in the Leipziger Stadtbibliothek (Leipzig Municipal Library). I’ve had an amazing trip so far and am so glad that Read More …
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party (BPP) for Self-Defense. Organized on October 15, 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the BPP became a symbol of militant resistance towards “establishment politics” and the ongoing abuse of black people in America. What began as a Read More …
