by Clements Library | Jun 29, 2021 | Featured, Fellowships, Maps
Guest post by Danny Zborover; 2020-2021 Mary G. Stange Fellow at the Clements Library; [email protected] *** As the pirates disembarked their ship and prepared to attack, another group of black-attired characters formed a solid line behind the defensive wall. After a...
by Cheney Schopieray | Jun 15, 2021 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts
The William L. Clements Library has recently made available online three archival collections pertinent to the trade of enslaved persons, slavery in Jamaica, and antislavery activities in Michigan. They include the Thomas Leyland Company Account Books, 1789-1793;...
by Jakob Dopp | May 24, 2021 | Collections, Featured, Graphics
At the beginning of March 2021, a grand total of 59 new finding aids for Graphics Division collections were made available online. While the vast majority of these finding aids were produced for collections that already had pre-existing catalog records, six of them...
by Paul Erickson | May 20, 2021 | Featured, Fellowships, News
The Clements Library is delighted to announce its list of research fellowship awardees for 2021-22. Because of the backlog in research visits from last year’s fellowship cohort due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we pushed our application deadline back this year, from...
by Clements Library | Apr 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.) Before planning your...
by Clements Library | Apr 26, 2021 | Featured, Graphics
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.) Before planning...
by Clements Library | Apr 19, 2021 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts, News
The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize one of our largest and most utilized collections. The funds will support a three-year-long effort to digitize over...
by Sara Quashnie | Mar 30, 2021 | Featured, Publications
In the spring of 2019, former Clements Library director Kevin Graffagnino proposed the idea of a book project which would be the sequel to the Clements’ 2017 publication The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers. While The Pioneer...
by Clements Library | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts, Volunteers
The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the completion of transcriptions for the United Sons of Salem Benevolent Society Minute Book, which documents the business proceedings of a mid-19th century organization. A hybrid of an insurance agency and...
