by Clements Library | Apr 16, 2020 | Acquisitions, Featured, Manuscripts, Volunteers
Guest post by Ellen Gleason, Clements Library Student Intern As a student pursuing the Graduate Certification in Archival Administration at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, I completed a 135-hour practicum applying my classroom learning to work in the field....
by Jayne Ptolemy | Feb 19, 2020 | Collections, Featured, Manuscripts
It can be easy to think of the archive as a self-contained space, where staff collect, conserve, and process collections while researchers come to quietly study them. But the historical figures whose papers fill the Clements Library stacks have far-reaching influence...
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...
