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The Harleston Family Papers from a Processor’s Perspective

  Share Related Story: MARBL Blog entry about John Biggers, another African American artist whose collections are housed in MARBL Related Links:  Edwin A. Harleston Finding Aid African AmericanCollections at MARBL  Join the discussion As a literary scholar, I find it refreshing to take on historical projects in my second life as a graduate student Read More …

Conditions: A Magazine of Writing by Women With an Emphasis on Writing by Lesbians

Cover of Conditions: Five“The Black Women's Issue“   Share Related Links: LGBT Research Guide African American Research Guide  Join the discussion MARBL is honored to add Conditions: a magazine of writing by women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians to our holdings. Conditions comes to MARBL through a generous gift made possible by Professor Read More …

Researching William Levi Dawson in MARBL

  Share Related Links: William Levi Dawson Finding Aid Research Guide to African American Collections in MARBL  Join the discussion Periodically, the MARBL blog will feature updates and insights from visiting researchers working within MARBL's collections. Gwynne Brown, Assistant Professor of Music History and Music Theory at the University of Puget Sound, spent a month Read More …

“She Sang So Sweet”: Lucille Clifton’s Children’s Literature

Everett Anderson’s Year, by Lucille Clifton The Lucille Clifton Exhibition “She Sang So Sweet:” Lucille Clifton’s Children’s Literature is currently on display on the 2nd Floor of the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibit is curated by Amy Hildreth Chen, Emory PhD student in English. The following is the essay which accompanies the exhibition, written Read More …

MARBL acquires rare Piranesi folio with map

Piranesi's Campus Martius   Share Related Links:  Emory's Views of Rome DiSC Project Stanford's Digital Forma Urbis Romae Proect U of Oregan's Interactive Nolli Map Proect  Join the discussion Emory’s MARBL has been collecting items for our ‘Views of Rome’ collection for over a decade, and we are pleased to announce the latest acquisition: PIRANESI, Read More …

Discovering Atlanta: Confederate Currency

Many aspects of the Civil War which didn’t necessarily occur directly in Atlanta or even in Georgia, had a direct impact on Atlanta’s citizens. When the South seceded from the Union, it almost immediately fell into a financial crisis. Problems of inflation plagued the Confederacy throughout the war. There was not a great deal of Read More …

Banned: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

  Share Below is the essay, written by University Archivist Kate Donovan, from the current exhibit on the second floor of the Robert W. Woodruff library in honor of Banned Books Week. The exhibit features covers and titles pages of banned or challenged books accompanied by brief captions about the works by librarians, staff and Read More …

Support the Georgia State Archives

Reading room in the Georgia State Archives in Morrow, GA,image courtesy of the Georgia State Archives   Share Learn more: Information on the Complex issues and what is at stake Talking points for legislators Related Articles: NY Times  Join the discussion Late on the afternoon of September 13, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced Read More …

Salman Rushdie Writes a Memoir With the Help of MARBL

Salman Rushdie Discusses Creativity and Your browser does not support iframes. But You can use the following link. Link     Share Related Story: Salman Rushdie: Emory News Center  Related Links:  Slate: Salman Rushdie's Well-Timed Memoir The Daily Mail: Life and Love in the Shadow of the Fatwa  Join the discussion Valentine's Day, 1989: the day Read More …

Eamon Grennan Papers to Open in MARBL

  Share Related Story: In Conversation: Short Stories-Kevin Young with Eamon Grennan  Related Links:  Eamon Grennan Finding Aid  Join the discussion Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1941. After receiving his B.A. and M.A. from University College in Dublin, Grennan moved to the United States to attend graduate school at Harvard University. He Read More …

Discovering Atlanta: Civil War Life for the City’s Young Women

Correspondence from Imogene Hoyle to Amaryllis Bomar, “Atlanta is very dull now.”, June 30, 1863[?], Bomar Family Papers   Share   Related Story: Discovering Atlanta  Related Links:  Bomar Family Papers Finding Aid Civil War Research Guide  Join the discussion While MARBL holds a significant amount of letters to and from soldiers in the Civil War between Read More …