In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, we offer several examples from the pirate-related materials at the Clements Library. The library has a variety of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and maps related to the history of pirates, buccaneers, privateers, and...
To celebrate the opening of the University of Michigan 2009 football season, we offer this selection of football-related items from the Clements Library collection.University Foot-Ball: The Play of Each Position Treated by a College Expert, 1893This book, edited by...
The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive has recently acquired the Lone Star Cook Book and Meat Special: From the Slaughter Pen to the Dining Room Table, by A. Fillmore (1929). A. Fillmore, an African American man from Texas whose father was also in the...