by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
An exhibition focusing on the history of cookbooks and cookery opened at the Clements in the Summer of 1996. Jan Longone, owner of the Wine and Food Library in Ann Arbor, marked the 200th anniversary of the first American cookbook by Amelia Simmons (published 1796)...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
An exhibition titled “Spiritual Song: The Meaning of African American Freedom in the Nineteenth Century” was held at the Clements, which represented the personal and public lives of free African Americans during the slavery era. It was put together by Rob Cox, the...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
In April, the Clements put on a program on nineteenth-century American ballroom dancing. Pauline Norton coordinted the efforts of the orchestra from the University of Michigan and the dancers from Eastern Michigan University. Three performances were held, a grand...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
Associates were invited to the usual Founder’s Day observance on April 1, when Professor LaMont Okey’s graduate students in interpretive reading gave lively excerpts from the Library’s etiquette books. The title of the program was “Gentle Manners and...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
In lieu of the annual gift book, in 1972 the library recorded a phonograph record—“A Concert of Eighteenth Century Music” performed mostly from the library’s Americana holdings. The university choir and a number of music faculty contributed to the...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
By March 30 the strike was still on, and so the library had to decide whether to proceed or not with the annual Founder’s Day program. They feared that sight of guests entering the building would induce students to follow in and interrupt proceedings. Therefore for...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
The preceding week had witnessed a strike against classes by the Black Action Movement, which also won support from some white students. On March 26 about two hundred occupied the Library. They were confined to the Main Room, where they held a meeting for half an...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
Prince Souvanna Phouma, neutralist premier of Laos, gives speech sponsored by the South and Southeast Asia Center in the Clements. In what was his first speech in an American university, Prince Souvanna attacked communism and called for neutralism. The Laotian...
by Clements Library | Apr 17, 2023
The Committee of Management took the recommendation of a study of the library’s scope to extend its reach to include materials from the second half of the 19th century.
