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Spring is in the air and our books are blooming! Just in time for Earth Day, we invite you to leaf through a stunning selection of rare books on botany, herbariums, and more...
In partnership with Tanner Humanities Center and the J. Willard Marriott Library, join us for a one-day symposium exploring the dynamic intersections of book history. Through three engaging sessions, scholars and practitioners will delve into how books have served as acts of defiance, how printing technologies...
A Hymn for Women’s Rights, Statehood, and Polygamy By Alexander Jolley, Rare Books Assistant Between the 1850s-60s, the women’s suffrage movement had crossed the Mississippi River and moved into the American West. What had long been a political issue in East Coast metropolitan cities finally saw some...
"The Truth is on the march, and nothing shall stop it." — Émile Zola J'accuse--! : lettre au Président de la Republique Émile Zola (1840-1902) Paris: L'Aurore, 1904 xDC354 Z65 1904 Émile Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, and most established author from the literary school of naturalism. Born in...
2024 was one for the books, as they say...
"I am the canopy in the opera of dusk the vast irrational archive the void I wore as a veil opening my book the trees I felled still falling and then a curtain the grief of evening walking and remembering the pages inside my lids...
This September, join the American West Center for a series of lively talks and readings about Sacajawea’s legacy...
"We are all en mal d'archive: in need of archives...
“The importance of these prints derives not only from the fact that they are early witnesses to the use of printing in the Middle East, or their textual and artistic content, but also from their rarity.” - Mark Muehlhaeusler, "Eight Arabic Block Prints from the Collection of...
