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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…

Flap Live at the Rose Library: The Class of ’92 Strikes Back

Rose Library’s Curator of Political, Cultural and Social Movements Collections, Randy Gue, celebrates the 30th anniversary of Atlanta indie duo…

She Puts Things In: Toni Morrison and the Legacy of Black Women Writers

In partnership with Emory University’s Rose Library and the Exhibitions team of Woodruff Library, Georgia Public Library Service…

In Memoriam: James V. Hatch: An Artist, Educator, and Visionary with Tremendous Inf ...

For more than fifty years, James Vernon Hatch (1928-2020) was a leading authority of African American theater, and along with…

The Making of an Exhibit: “Born Digital: From Kilobytes to Terabytes” � ...

“Born Digital: From Kilobytes to Terabytes,” curated by Rose Library’s project digital archivist Brenna Edwards, explores and examines the collecting…

Lift Every Voice 2020: What can the past tell us about the present?

Beginning this month, the Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University is undertaking a year-long project to explore citizenship through…

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Map Making Connections: A Map Reveals the Complex Relationships in 18th Century Ita ...

Mikela Razo is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University. Over the Spring 2019 semester she completed an internship with the Rose Library Rare Books unit. The “Map of Pozzuoli according to the present state”...

Reflections on My First Conference: Report from the Queer History South Conference

Brianna McGruder is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and an intern with the Charlotte Queer Oral Histories Project. Briana was the 2019 recipient of a Rose Library scholarship to attend the Queer History South Conference, organized by...

Queer O’Connor: Surprises from the Archives

In February 2019, Sean DiLeonardi conducted research at Emory’s Rose Library as a recipient of our Short-Term Fellowship Program. Mr. DiLeonardi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel...

Meeting Grace DeLorme

Jina DuVernay is the Visiting Archivist for African American Collections at the Rose Library. She will be blogging regularly throughout her appointment. Prior to joining Rose, I was a Special Collections Librarian at Alabama State University where I managed African...

Queer Community Structures: “The American Music Show” on Wikipedia

Andrew Kingston is the 2018-2019 Robert W. Woodruff Fellow at the Rose Library. Throughout the year, he will be blogging about his experience processing the records of The American Music Show. At the Rose Library this year, I have been...