A woodcut of a skeleton holding a scythe in front of a city, from the cover of Ciudad

Cities of Slaughter

Half a world from the events it describes, this translation of a famous Hebrew poem adds new layers to familiar fears. ...

Alice and the Dodo meet in Wonderland. Illustration by John Tenniel

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...

A Steam shovel removes dirt from the Culebra Cut

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."...

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....

The dictionary's marbled paper covers bear a presentation stamp.

Abigail’s Dictionary

A Hebrew-English dictionary from the middle of the nineteenth century illuminates the mind and the labor of its author. ...

Masthead title figure for the weekly Mfumu'eto comic "Tala Tina," dated October 25, 1994.

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...

An engraving of "Les Argonautes," featuring people in Ancient Greek clothing. Under the engraving, it says "Les Argonautes, selon Pindare Orphee Et Apollonius de Rhodes."

Missing Pieces

A fragment of an early printed book tells the story of how we think about texts and titles....

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