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 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...
by Clements Library | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured, Manuscripts, News
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections are now described online and two new Subject Guides have been published to our website. Subject Guides highlight selected areas of strength in the collections and advice for researchers. The...
by Jonathan Quint | Dec 17, 2020 | Featured, Manuscripts
Guest post by Jonathan Quint, University of Michigan Department of History PhD candidate and Clements Library Intern. This third blog post in a three-part series titled “Empire and Encounter at Detroit” (read part 1 and part 2) uses James Sterling’s letter book to...
by Jonathan Quint | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured, Manuscripts
Guest post by Jonathan Quint, University of Michigan Department of History PhD candidate and Clements Library Intern. This second blog post in a three-part series titled “Empire and Encounter at Detroit” (read part 1) uses James Sterling’s letter book to enter the...
by Jonathan Quint | Sep 30, 2020 | Featured, Manuscripts
Guest post by Jonathan Quint, University of Michigan Department of History PhD candidate and Clements Library Intern * * * In the wake of British military forces who took formal possession of Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (Detroit) on November 11, 1760, came peddlers,...
by Clements Library | Aug 26, 2020 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts, Volunteers
The William L. Clements Library would like to extend its sincere thanks to the Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) for volunteering to transcribe the Revolutionary War papers of Col. Jonathan Chase, of the...
by Clements Library | Jul 28, 2020 | Featured, Manuscripts, News
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that the following collections are now described online. These materials may be requested for use in the reading room when we are able to resume library services. Before planning your research visit, please contact us to...
by Clements Library | Jun 16, 2020 | Library Work, Manuscripts, Volunteers
The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce that the digitized Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Papers are now fully text searchable. Each digitized page is accompanied by a complete transcription, which will transform the way researchers...
