The Rare Books Department and Special Collections welcomes U back to school with our latest digital exhibition, A History of Special Collections. A New Family Encylopedia Charles A. Goodrich (1790-1862) T. Belknap, 1834 AG5 G6 1834 From the John R. Park Library Collection. Co-curated by Lyuba Basin and Rachel Ernst, this digital...
The Rare Books Department invites you to view its most recent virtual lecture, The New Art of Making Books Smoke Amy Pirkle Tuscaloosa, AL: Perkolator Press, 2008 N7433.4 P58 S5 2008 If this is your first introduction into the world of artists’ books you may find yourself at times stumbling over definitions....
"Evening snow starts to fall outside. It starts as large fluffy flakes. Day after day snow falls, week after week. Will it never end? The sidewalks become like narrow alleyways. For every snowflake there is regret: for words never said, for trips made and not...
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the...
“…King Montecuma accompanied with his Nobles, and those of the most distinguished Rank in his Court, entertain’d the Spaniards with all sorts of Divertisements, to testify how mightily they were pleased with their Arrival. The King’s Brother came to meet ’em with a splendid Retinue;...
Last semester, Rare Books loaned six of its medieval manuscript facsimiles to the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State University in collaboration with an art history course taught by Professor Alexa Sand. The upper-level course, “Special Topics Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Art: Rare Books...
These commentaries are excerpts from an assigned project for Humanities4900/6900, “Indigenous Peoples: Social and Cultural Perspectives,” taught by Isabel Dulfano, Spring semester 2016. Students studied demographics, Mayan epigraphy, Incan kipu, archaeology, linguistics and other topics as an interdisciplinary approach to critically expanding their understanding of...