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 | May 12, 2020 | Books, Featured, Fellowships, Graphics
Guest post by Jean Franzino, Clements Library 2019 Norton Strange Townshend Fellow * * * In 1904, New Jersey Civil War veteran George R. Shebbeard published his life narrative, a 32-page booklet of the sort sold by disabled veterans for their economic support. The...
by Paul Erickson | Apr 30, 2020 | Fellowships, News
The 2020-21 competition for research fellowships at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan saw the library receive its largest number of applications ever. As a new arrival at the Clements, reading the fellowship proposals was a wonderful way to...
by Clements Library | Oct 29, 2019 | Featured, Fellowships, Manuscripts
Guest post by Morgan McCullough, Clements Library 2019 Price Fellow In the American Science and Medicine Collection a small slip of paper lies safely nestled in a folder, a recipe “for Susy’s Breast.”[1] Undated, with author, recipient, and Susy the patient...
by Jayne Ptolemy | Oct 18, 2019 | Fellowships, News
Scholars from across the globe visit the William L. Clements Library to work on books, articles, dissertations, creative projects, and more. In 2019 we welcomed 23 fellows. Fellows are encouraged to present a brown bag talk or write a guest blog post related to their...
by Clements Library | Jul 22, 2019 | Featured, Fellowships, Manuscripts
Guest post by Grant Kleiser, Clements Library 2019 Marsh Fellow Almost immediately after English men and women began to inhabit pockets of the Americas in the early seventeenth century, Parliament debated how best to control the trade that would flow from England to...
by Clements Library | Apr 19, 2019 | Featured, Fellowships, Manuscripts
Guest post by Catherine Treesh, Clements Library 2018 Price Fellow Over the course of 1774 and 1775, letters from distressed governors flooded General Thomas Gage’s headquarters in Boston. Colonial officials all across British North America were watching imperial...
by Clements Library | Oct 25, 2018 | Fellowships
After visiting the Clements Library, one of our fellows had this to say about the experience: “The Clements Library not only has an amazing variety of rich collections but also an incredibly helpful, professional staff. During the approximately two and a half months I...
by Clements Library | Dec 8, 2016 | Fellowships
In keeping with the Clements Library’s commitment to the University of Michigan’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative, we are pleased to announce a new post-doctoral fellowship. The Norton Strange Townshend Fellowship is named for the nineteenth-century...
