by Louis Miller | Nov 14, 2019 | Manuscripts, Public Programs
Louis Miller, Curatorial Assistant at the Clements Library, summarizes our recent collaborative discussion program. The Clements Library hosted its second ever Contemporary Issues Discussion event on October 30, 2019, in collaboration with the Eisenberg Institute for...
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 Cheney Schopieray | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured, Manuscripts, News
The Clements Library is pleased to announce that an additional five manuscript collections are digitized and freely accessible online. The digital versions are complete and presented in a manner that reflects the collections’ physical/intellectual arrangements....
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...
