From “aliyah” to “zaydie”: Insights into the making of early Jewish computer games

Josh Renaud is a journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He publishes computer history research on his website, Break Into Chat. He is interested in recovering lost or obscure software, and telling the stories of the people who made and used it. He was a 2024 recipient of the Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Read More …

Ex-Confederate Descendants in Brazil and their Lost Cause Ethos

Chase H. McCarter is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico. He is currently a Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow in the Humanities. Chase’s research interests include the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth-century U.S. South, nineteenth-century U.S.-Latin American relations, war and society, and the Read More …

Ralph McGill and Lillian Smith: Two Intellectuals in the Service of President Lyndon B. Johnson

Dominic D’Amour is a doctoral candidate in Social and Presidential History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is a 2024 Visiting Research Fellow for Political & Social Movements. I had a very wonderful and productive experience diving into the archives of the Rose Library at Emory University. This magnificent library houses the Read More …

Walking Through History: Rose Research in Action

Joel Silverman is a photographer, commercial filmmaker, and educator. He is currently an adjunct professor at Emory University, where he teaches photography and filmmaking with a focus on digital futurism, photographic art history, printmaking, and historic darkroom processes. He was a 2023 recipient of the Rose Library’s Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Read More …

Arts & Activism in the Archives – Rose Library & Science Gallery Atlanta

by Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist at Rose Library.   Rose Library is honored to play a small role in Science Gallery Atlanta’s newest exhibition, “JUSTICE”, where we will offer finding aids to some of our related collections. In their words, “This exhibition season invites researchers, artists, and audiences to contemplate and reimagine some of the Read More …

Uncovering Enslavement on the Main Emory Campus: Two Receipts from the Civil War Era

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 …

The Rose Library Acquires the Papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ Rights Activist Winston Johnson

The Rose Library has a trove of collections that document activism in Atlanta, Georgia, the South, and the nation. Here is some information about a new collection. The Rose Library has acquired the papers of Atlanta LGBTQ+ and human rights activist Winston Johnson. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, and photographs that document Johnson’s work Read More …

Rose Library’s collections tie the past and present together: Rabbi Jacob Rothschild & Jon Ossoff

  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 the Temple. The Rothschild papers detail the Rabbi’s friendship with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Read More …

Getting to Know Tierra Thomas, Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections

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.   What do you do at Rose Library? I am the Visiting Archivist for Southern Jewish Collections. In Read More …

Using Rose Library resources remotely

Although the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is currently closed to non-Emory visitors, many of our rich resources can be accessed at home.  These materials include image collections, maps, rare books, audiovisual materials, and born digital materials.  Researchers interested in specific topics can also contact the Rose Library reference staff for Read More …

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 least.  The fiery minister, civil rights pioneer, human rights advocate, and challenger of injustice everywhere was not only a truth speaker, he demonstrated and encouraged the necessary actions that could and did lead to the Read More …

Revisiting Rose Library’s First Drag Show!

On January 30th, 2020, Rose Library held its first drag show in the archive. The show helped Rose Library celebrate our LGBTQ collections. And thanks to Brook Hewitt of Rose Riot Photography, we have a way to share this amazing event! On behalf of Randy Gue, Curator of the Political, Cultural and Social Movements Collections Read More …