Cities of Slaughter
Half a world from the events it describes, this translation of a famous Hebrew poem adds new layers to familiar fears. ...
The Many Images of Alice in Wonderland
When you recall an image of Alice in Wonderland, which Alice do you see? Three new displays in our library spaces show the hundreds of ways that Alice has been imagined in...
Building the University Auditorium
Explore the stages of UF's first multi-purpose building in this post by University Archivist Sarah Coates...
A Meeting in Hell
The engineers and laborers tasked with constructing the Panama Canal in 1904 literally had to move a mountain. The path they cut through the Continental Divide would become known as "Hell's Gorge."...
Chance Encounters: Meeting John Muir in Florida
In October of 1867, a weary and likely malarial John Muir stumbled back into the town of Cedar Key and collapsed in a heap. Just six months prior, the twenty-nine-year-old Muir had...
Two Women, So Many Books
The correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham reveals fifteen years of talking about life, nature and, of course, books. ...
“Political” Theater
Explore the connections between stage and statehouse in our collection of historical playbills and theater programs....
Abigail’s Dictionary
A Hebrew-English dictionary from the middle of the nineteenth century illuminates the mind and the labor of its author. ...
International Comics: Papa Mfumu’Eto 1er
Submitted by Dan Reboussin, Ph.D., African Studies Curator I’m thrilled to share that, in collaboration with Professor Nancy Hunt, I’ve recently accessioned the creative and production papers of comic artist Papa Mfumu’Eto...
Missing Pieces
A fragment of an early printed book tells the story of how we think about texts and titles....
