Summer Intern Series: Liadan Shaw-Smith
Liadan Shaw-Smith is a rising senior at Atlanta’s Marist School. She will be blogging throughout her Summer internship at the…
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Every Man His Own
Jina DuVernay is the Visiting Archivist for African American Collections at the Rose Library. She will be blogging regularly throughout…
In Memoriam: Camille Billops, An Avant-garde Artist to be Recognized and Reckoned W ...
Every creative, cultural and racial experience has to do with my work. I sift and look and taste. Camille Billops…
Anthology, Archive, and Authority: Teaching with Lucille Clifton’s Papers
Marlo Starr (PhD Candidate, English Department) is the 2017-2018 Alice Walker Research Scholar in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives,…
“So be it”: Celebrating Lucille Clifton’s Life and Work
In perhaps her best recognized poem, “won’t you celebrate with me” Lucille Clifton invites readers to celebrate her life. Though…
Photographer Hugo Fernandes speaks about “Intimate Strangers”
Last night photographer Hugo Fernandes spoke in Emory’s Woodruff Library about his portrait series Intimate Strangers. To create the series…
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Celebrate the Service of African Americans in WWI
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...
Guest Contributor: Archival Adventures in Leipzig
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...
The J. Herman Blake Black Panther Party Collection: A Deep Reflection and Focus on ...
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...
New blog series: “Following the Fellows”
Following the Fellows: Introducing the Rose Library 2016-2017 Short Term Fellows By Christeene Alcosiba Manager of Operations, Public Programming, and Rose Library Short-Term Fellowships Every year scholars and doctoral candidates from around the world come to campus to access Rose...
“Rantings of High Weirdness:” Punk Rock Fanzines in the Rose Library
Forget BitTorrent, Pollstar, Myspace, Pitchfork and Facebook events. Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library has acquired a collection of Atlanta punk rock fanzines from the 1980s, including editions of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA), Ratlanta, Restless...
Apply now for undergraduate research prizes
Applications are now being accepted for the Rackoff and Schuchard undergraduate research prizes! Prizes will be awarded through the generosity of the Betsy and Wayne Rackoff Fund. Dr. Wayne Rackoff (75C), vice president of clinical oncology at Janssen Research &...