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 | Jun 19, 2019 | Manuscripts, News
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following manuscript collections are now described online and may be requested for use in the reading room. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Prudential Committee minutes, 1848-1892 –...
by Jayne Ptolemy | May 16, 2019 | Manuscripts, Public Programs
Earlier this year, I was spitballing some ideas with my colleague Louie Miller in the Reference Division office, and we chatted about how interesting it would be to bring together a historical item from our collection with the modern-day perspectives of people...
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 | Apr 9, 2019 | Clements Library Associates, Manuscripts, Today in history
Guest post by volunteer Richard Marsh, Clements Library Associates Board of Governors Thanks to the contributions of Dr. Duane Norman Diedrich (1935-2018), the Clements Library holds selected original documents from Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), the great Prime...
by Cheney Schopieray | Apr 1, 2019 | Featured, Manuscripts, News
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce that five of its manuscripts collections are digitized and accessible online. These collections mark the beginning of the Library’s efforts to provide free and open digital access to its collections of...
by Clements Library | Mar 27, 2019 | Exhibits, Graphics, Manuscripts, Publications
The Clements Library exhibition “Over There” with the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War is open through April 26, 2019, on Fridays from 10am to 4pm. The following material is excerpted from a pamphlet produced to accompany the...
by Clements Library | Mar 6, 2019 | Graphics, Manuscripts, News
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. James Buchanan Letters, 1866-1869 – Processed by Cari Griffin This collection contains 10 letters written by...
by Cheney Schopieray | Feb 21, 2019 | Acquisitions, Featured, Manuscripts
Research projects can begin in a variety of different ways. On one end of the spectrum, a query about some aspect of the past may prompt the scholar to seek out and identify relevant primary sources that help answer their question. On the opposite end, a scholar may...
