by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers This is the second post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. The Lucinda Bunnen Papers arrived in two accessions, one consisting of 18 boxes and the other over 100. After finishing some introductory readings about accessioning and archives, Read More …
by Cori Williams, Collection Services Processing Intern, Lucinda Bunnen papers. This is the first post in a series on the accessioning and processing of the Lucinda Bunnen Papers. I found myself at the Rose Library in a bit of an unusual way. I was first introduced to the Lucinda Bunnen Papers through their creator, Lucinda Read More …
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 …
Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library is excited to announce the addition of a new digital collection to Emory Digital Collections. The William H. Scott Family Papers is a manuscript collection from the family of William H. Scott (1848-1910), who was a Black Baptist minister and political activist who was Read More …
As we observe Black History Month we look to Carter G. Woodson, who is known as the Father of Black History. Rose Library holds a collection of materials from Woodson’s library which includes, correspondence, photographs, and books. Woodson with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, an organization he helped found announced Read More …
Siân Round is very near to finishing a PhD in English at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines literary magazines in the American South between 1921 and 1945. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, The Cambridge Quarterly, and Review of English Studies. Who was Ernest Read More …
Sid Ahmed ZIANE is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University. He studies African American history and his area of interest revolves around race and media in Post-war America. He is currently working on a project which looks at the correlation between the modern black print media and the modern black liberation movement in the US. Read More …
Colin Newton is a writer from Los Angeles whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The Ignatian, Westwind, Maudlin House, Red Planet Magazine, The Fabulist and Northridge Review. Newton was a 2018 Trillium Project resident at Oregon State University’s Shotpouch Cabin, and has years of experience as a freelance writer and writing instructor. Research conducted Read More …
Andrew Harrison Baker, Ph.D., is a Lecturer of History in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University. His research focuses on focuses on politics, economic development, and southern cities in the post-World War II South with a particular interest in the Sunbelt era. My introduction to southern Jewish history began in October 2018 Read More …
Josina Guess is a writer and editor with more than 20 years experience in non-profit, faith-based, arts and cross-cultural communication in urban and rural settings. She is the 2022 recipient of The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Culture. The Nancy and Randall Burkett Award for Research in Black Print Read More …
Mattie C. Webb is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studies 20th century U.S. and African history. She was a recipient of the Rose Library’s African American Short Term Research Fellowship, which she used to research in the Leon H. Sullivan Papers. My first Read More …
Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University. She studies American Religious History with a special focus on questions of race, religion, and activism. She is the recipient of the 2020 Nancy and Randall Burkett Fellowship. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African American women were the vanguard of the international struggle Read More …
