by Clements Library | Nov 27, 2014 | Holidays, Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Curatorial AssistantThe William L. Clements Library sends warm Thanksgiving greetings and offers a glimpse at holidays past via our Manuscripts Division. In November 1857, William H. Ireland, Jr., sent an illustrated, lyrical letter...
by Clements Library | Nov 11, 2014 | Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Division Curatorial AssistantVeterans Day serves as a poignant reminder of the great sacrifices the men and women of the military have made for their country. In the United States, Veterans Day evolved out of the annual celebration...
by Clements Library | Sep 23, 2014 | Books, Graphics, Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Division Curatorial AssistantIn Ann Arbor, the weather has started to have a chilly bite, and at the Clements Library we look to our collections to help celebrate the first day of fall.From our Schoff Civil War collection, we hear...
by Clements Library | Jul 25, 2014 | Acquisitions, Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Manuscripts Division Curatorial Assistant In the late evening hours of July 25, 1814, one of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812 commenced, continuing until after midnight. Unplanned and fought in the dark of night, the Battle of...
by Clements Library | Oct 31, 2013 | Graphics, Holidays, Manuscripts, Today in history
“This is holy eve,” Richard Coulter wrote in his journal on October 31st, 1847. He was serving in the American Army that Halloween due to the Mexican War, and he noted the differences between how the day was observed in Mexico and back home in Greensburg,...
by Clements Library | Sep 5, 2013 | Graphics, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room SupervisorIn honor of the upcoming celebration of World Beard Day on Saturday, September 7, Clements Library offers up this small sampling of the luxuriant beards found in our extensive Graphics Division. For example, amidst the...
by Clements Library | Aug 7, 2013 | Manuscripts, Today in history
Post by Jayne Ptolemy, Reading Room SupervisorIn the early morning hours of August 12th, the Perseid Meteor Shower will be at its peak for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. As we pass through the trailing dust left by the Swift-Tuttle comet, we should witness a...
by Clements Library | Jan 18, 2013 | Graphics, Today in history
January 18 and 22 mark the bicentennial of a pair of battles of the War of 1812 that deeply affected the American population of Ohio, Kentucky, and the Michigan Territory. The battles were fought in Frenchtown or River Raisin (today Monroe, Michigan), and they were a...
by Clements Library | Dec 29, 2012 | Graphics, Today in history
Post by Brian Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of MapsFor many years now, two oil paintings have looked down on the supervisor’s desk in the Clements Library reading room. They depict two phases of a battle at sea between a pair of warships, one British...
