Founder’s Day Lecture by Scott Stevens, “Accessing Indigenous Archives: Language, History, and Law,” April 4, 2013
William L. Clements Library Founder's Day LectureDr. Scott Manning Stevens"Accessing Indigenous Archives: Language, History, and Law"Thursday, April 4, 2013, 4:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibrarySponsored by the American Indian Studies Interdisciplinary Group (AISIG)In this lecture at the Clements Library, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens will explore the links between archive and communities, especially as related to activism of various types, including federal recognition cases, treaty rights,...
Recent Acquisition: Rare 17th Century Account of New France
In 2012, the Clements Library received a generous gift from Charles and Julia Eisendrath, with an appraised total value of $150,000. The gift includes a page from the Gutenberg Bible and a first edition set of Premier Établissement de la Foy dans la Nouvelle-France, written by Chrétien Le Clercq and published in Paris in 1691. Le Clercq was a 17th century Catholic missionary to the Micmacs of the Gaspé Peninsula. His two-volume work documents the establishment of Roman Catholicism in...
Lecture by Don Faber, “Stevens T. Mason: The Boy Governor Remembered,” March 14, 2013
Lecture by Don Faber"Stevens T. Mason: The Boy Governor Remembered"Thursday, March 14, 2013, 4:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibraryDon Faber, Ann Arbor historian and journalist, will discuss his recent book, "The Boy Governor: Stevens T. Mason and the Birth of Michigan Politics," and the historic accomplishments of Michigan's first and youngest governor.Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Library at (734) 764-2347 or visit our website: www.clements.umich.edu.William L....
Current Exhibit: “Recent Acquisitions,” March 4 – July 12, 2013
Recent Acquisitions: Building on the Clements CollectionsMarch 4 - July 12, 2013Curated by Brian Leigh DunniganAssociate Director and Curator of MapsThe William L. Clements Library is one of the University of Michigan’s “collecting units”—libraries, museums, and other departments that acquire and hold primary source materials that support the educational goals of this great institution. The Library opened its doors to scholars in 1923, and since that time it has followed in the footsteps of...
Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive to Move to the University Library
The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA) will be moving from the Clements Library to the University Library, where it will make its new home in Special Collections. Shaped by the donation of a rich assemblage of cookbooks, menus, and other material collected over many years by Janice and Daniel Longone, the JBLCA is recognized around the campus and across the country as a premier collection of books, ephemera, and other material that both documents and defines the American...
Latest Quarto: Maritime History
The Fall-Winter 2012 Quarto is now available. The Quarto is a semi-annual magazine published by the William L. Clements Library and sent to members of the Clements Library Associates. This issue of The Quarto focuses on the Clements Library collections related to maritime history. "A Sailor's Life for Me," by J. Kevin Graffagnino, Director of the Library. "Profiling the Coasts," by Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Associate Director & Curator of Maps. Coastal profiles in the Clements Library map...
Lecture by Sakina Hughes, “Celebrating African American Authors in the Culinary World,” February 21, 2013
Lecture by Sakina Hughes, Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies"Celebrating African American Authors in the Culinary World"Thursday, February 21, 2013, 4:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibrarySakina Hughes will talk about how the Janice B. Longone Culinary Archive (JBLCA) allows users to explore the relationship between food and African American history and culture.Free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Library at...
Brown Bag Lecture by Patricia Majher, “Getting Published in Michigan History Magazine,” February 11, 2013
The William L. Clements LibraryBrown Bag Lecture SeriespresentsLecture by Patricia Majher, Editor of Michigan History magazine"Getting Published in Michigan History Magazine" Monday, February 11, 2013, 12:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibraryMichigan History is the most-read state history magazine in the country, with a circulation of 25,000. Please join Patricia as she discusses what it takes to get an article published in Michigan History.Please bring lunch. Beverages will be served.
Lecture by Richard Rabinowitz, “Curating the Silence,” February 7, 2013
Lecture by Richard RabinowitzFounder and President of the American History Workshop"Curating the Silence" Thursday, February 7, 4:00 p.m.Main Room, Clements LibraryAwarded the 2012 Herbert Feis Award for distinguished contributions to public history by the American Historical Association, Dr. Rabinowitz will explore how historians, and particularly public historians, confront the dilemma that evidences of African American lives, voices, and perspectives are seldom available in the...
Today in History: Remember the Raisin
January 18 and 22 mark the bicentennial of a pair of battles of the War of 1812 that deeply affected the American population of Ohio, Kentucky, and the Michigan Territory. The battles were fought in Frenchtown or River Raisin (today Monroe, Michigan), and they were a costly blunder and setback for United States forces attempting to regain Detroit and drive British forces from the region.The fall of Detroit on August 16, 1812, included the loss of Brigadier General William Hull’s entire...