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Aug 27

Welcome Week Guided Tour

August 27, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

William L. Clements Library

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 […]

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Aug 28

Welcome Week Guided Tour

August 28, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

William L. Clements Library

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 […]

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Sep 11

Guided Tour

September 11, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Sep 18
ZOOM

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 […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Jessica Lepler's "Canal Dreamers."
Oct 16
ZOOM

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 […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Amy E. Hughes' book "An Actor's Tale."
Oct 16

Homecoming Weekend Guided Tour

October 16, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Homecoming Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 10 am

October 23, 2026 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 1 pm

October 23, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Oct 23

Parent and Family Weekend Guided Tour – 4 pm

October 23, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET

Clements Library

Join us this Parent and Family Weekend for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections.

"Discover the Clements Library" in front of two ornate arches
Nov 20
ZOOM

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 […]

Graphic advertising the Clements Bookworm with the cover of Anne Ruggles Gere's "Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era"