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Join us to learn more about the history of Clements Library, its programs, and collections. Highlights include Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Thomas Gage’s papers, and the current exhibit, Up, Up, & Away: A History of Ballooning in America, closing on August 28. Arrive […]
Join us to learn more about the history of Clements Library, its programs, and collections. Highlights include Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Thomas Gage’s papers, and the current exhibit, Up, Up, & Away: A History of Ballooning in America, closing on August 28. Arrive […]
Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Historian and author of Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions, Jessica M. Lepler walks us through the failed idea to build the world’s first interoceanic canal. In the 1820s, there was a little-known dream to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic […]
Historian and author of An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Amy E. Hughes introduces us to playwright and actor Harry Watkins for an alternative history of nineteenth-century theater. Hughes asks uncomfortable questions about the existence, predominance, and erasure of White male mediocrity in U.S. culture, both in the […]
Join us this Homecoming Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.
In her book, Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era, Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools. Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and […]
