by Clements Library | Nov 18, 2021 | Featured, Graphics
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections in our Graphics Division are now described online and may be requested for use in the reading room. The Clements Library is now open for research by appointment. Learn more at...
by Jakob Dopp | Nov 3, 2021 | Books, Featured, Graphics, Manuscripts
The Clements Library is thrilled to have recently acquired a mid-19th-century calling card for a Saginaw Band Ojibwa man named Joseph Cabay which will be a welcome addition to the Native American History Collection. Born around 1837 in Saganing, Michigan, to...
by Maggie Vanderford | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured, Fellowships
The William L. Clements Library collections exist to be used. Nothing makes the staff of the Clements Library happier than to see the Avenir Room full of researchers using the collections. At any given moment, the tables may host innovative work on topics as varied as...
by Cheney Schopieray | Oct 27, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce the availability of a digitized version of the William Howe Orderly Book, 1776-1778. This volume of orders for the British Army under General Howe, covering around two years of the American Revolution, is a...
by Clements Library | Oct 13, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library’s new batch of finding aids pertains to a variety of 19th century topics. The collections document variolation and childbirth, primary to higher education, Mississippi plantation life, teenage girls’ experiences, textile...
by Clements Library | Sep 23, 2021 | Featured, Maps
This image comprises all the engraved segments of a half-size facsimile copy of a medieval manuscript map known as The Peutinger Map. The engraved facsimile is found in later editions of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, edited and published by Abraham Ortelius (and often...
by Emiko Hastings | Aug 3, 2021 | Featured, Library Work, Manuscripts, Volunteers
As part of the Clements Library’s digitization program, we have started to make selected archival collections available online. To make these materials fully available for research, we welcome volunteers to help us create searchable full-text transcriptions for...
by Clements Library | Jul 28, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections are now described online and may be requested for use in the reading room. (The Clements Library is currently open by appointment only for U-M faculty, students and staff and Clements research...
by Jonathan Quint | Jul 13, 2021 | Featured, Publications
Guest author Jonathan Quint, a PhD candidate in the University of Michigan Department of History and 2020-2021 Clements Library Intern, reflects on one of the Clements’ most celebrated publications 20 years after its release. Brian Leigh Dunnigan. Frontier...
