by Clements Library | Jul 24, 2012 | Collections, Library Work, Manuscripts
Welcome to our new series of interviews with the wonderful Clements Library volunteers, in which we’ll get to know the people who put their time and energy into processing collections, acting as docents, and assisting our curators on special projects.Phil Zaret...
by Clements Library | Jun 20, 2012 | Books, Collections
Guest post by Esti Brennan, Social Media Intern[General Mills, War Work: A Daybook for the Home (Minneapolis, 1942).]Rationing is a common practice in wartime, meant to ensure that the country’s military is kept well-supplied without unduly depriving those...
by Clements Library | Mar 8, 2012 | Collections, News
Ruth Gretzinger’s post this week on the Michigan Marketing & Design blog provides a delightful example of the power of historical research. Ruth came across a reference to “democrat cake” in a novella set in 19th century New Mexico, and...
by Clements Library | Jan 27, 2012 | Collections, Holidays, Today in history
Guest post by Molly Malcolm, Clements Library volunteerToday is National Chocolate Cake Day, and although it is not an officially recognized holiday, the Clements Library is celebrating it by offering a short history of the evolution of chocolate cake in the United...
by Clements Library | Oct 27, 2011 | Collections, Public Programs
Culinary Historians of New York and the New York Public Library present:The Old Girl Network: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of WomenwithJanice Bluestein LongoneandPresentation of 2011 Amelia Award to Janice Bluestein Longone Thursday, November 10,...
by Clements Library | Sep 30, 2011 | Collections
Pictured here is Your Favorite Recipes by the Women’s Council of the Country Club Christian Church from Kansas City, Missouri in 1937.The Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive has just completed a yearlong cataloging project in which we added more than a thousand...
by Clements Library | Nov 25, 2010 | Collections, Holidays, Today in history
Guest post by JJ Jacobson, Curator of American Culinary HistoryIf Americans have any one person to thank for the Thanksgiving holiday, it is Sarah Josepha Buell Hale. Hale waged a decades-long campaign for the establishment of a national Thanksgiving Day on the last...
by Clements Library | Oct 12, 2010 | Collections, Public Programs
The University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender presents a lecture by Janice Longone: “The Old Girl Network”: Charity Cookbooks and the Empowerment of Women Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:00 PM-4:30 PM 2239 Lane Hall Published by women...
by Clements Library | Jul 15, 2010 | Books, Collections, Graphics, Manuscripts, Maps
“The whole purpose of summer fishing, the Old Man said, is not to worry about catching fish, but just to get out of the house and set and think a little.” –Robert C. Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy Fishing, a popular American pastime, is...
